Pop star Lady Gaga launched her new foundation with some powerful friends at Harvard Wednesday, a non-profit charity whose mission is to "foster a more accepting society" and help youth "challenge meanness and cruelty".

The singer was joined by Oprah Winfrey, spiritual leader Deepak Chopra, and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to kick off the online Born This Way Foundation.

The official rollout of the foundation was held at Harvard because the university's Berkman Center for Internet and Society and its Graduate School of Education are offering assistance to the fledgling organization.

(READ the story in the Boston Globe)