SOF Up Close: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. with David Rubenstein Event information Contact Society of Fellows members at the Gold Leaf and Chairman’s Society levels are invited to a special Up Close conversation on Wednesday, April 14 featuring Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University and Aspen Institute Trustee, in conversation with David Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of The Carlyle Group. The two will discuss Professor Gates’s new acclaimed PBS series based on his book, The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song, about the 400-year legacy of the Black church and how it has served as a mobilization space for the political, economic, and religious equality of Black people.