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Stacey Harris knows how important it is to be heard, because for a long time she wasn’t.
“My parents just were not expecting
me,” she says. “The queer, blue-haired Harvard Square kid just didn’t work for them. They didn’t get it, so they couldn’t get me. And it was very hard. So from 13 on, I wasn’t really with them.”
In the long run she has thrived, with a happy family of her own and a career as Boston University’s associate director of Disability & Access Services, a post she’s held since 2014. But she hasn’t forgotten how difficult life can be when you can’t say what you mean or when the people you need to hear you aren’t listening. That’s a big reason why she’s spearheading Boston University’s new Student Conflict Resolution Program.