The Du Bois Orchestra is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based symphony orchestra dedicated to the promotion and performance of classical music in the context of diversity. The orchestra was founded in 2015 by Harvard graduate students Karen Cueva and Kai Johannes Polzhofer as the Du Bois Orchestra at Harvard to engage with topics of social inclusion, equity, and justice through classical music. The orchestra was named after W.E.B. Du Bois, who was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University.