Earlier in May, HKS hosted the IDEASpHERE, a celebration of big and powerful ideas among our professors, students and alumni. Among the globally renowned line-up of speakers were President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the current President of Liberia in her second term, and the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011.  On the opening panel […]

I am often underwhelmed at people’s reactions to learning I’m gay. I am baffled when straight and straitlaced men take this in stride. I often feel like screaming, “Did you hear me?! I said I put a penis in my butt, on purpose, for fun!” But to do so would undermine much of the rhetoric […]

Abstract This paper assesses the strength of the Kenya Health Policy 2012-2030 to determine the extent to which it upholds the right to health and explicitly addresses the health needs and aspirations, as well as facilitators and barriers to accessing health care services, of vulnerable and marginalised groups.  The Kenya Health Policy is guided by […]

The authors are former student-leaders of various LBGTQ organizations and initiatives in Yale College and the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.[1] When Rachel’s grandfather wanted to help his family members resolve familial tension or hurt, he would take off his glasses, tilt his head down slightly, and say in a quiet voice but […]

What did you do before you came to the Kennedy School? I worked at Google Headquarters in the Sales Department, and spent a lot of my time working for Google Ideas as Google’s North Korea Lead to bring technology and online tools to North Korean defectors. Before that, I hung out at HKS way too […]

What did you do before you came to the Kennedy School? That is a short question with a long but very exciting answer.  Before coming to the Kennedy School, I worked for the New York City Police Department (NYPD); my last assignment was the 30th Precinct Detective Bureau as their Executive Officer.  I supervised a […]

Interview with Tommy Tobin, The Citizen The Kennedy School teaches students lessons in policy and politics inside and outside the classroom. The energy of the Forum spills into class discussions and informs student conversations. Some students don’t just talk politics, they live it. Many have come from political posts prior to HKS and others are […]

By Tommy Tobin Kennedy School students come to this institution with a variety of passions, interests, and abilities. We are challenged to “ask what we can do” to improve the world. While many of us aim to sharpen our quantitative skills here, fewer seem to focus on the arts to shape and inform policy discussions. […]

By Ted Zagraniski TIME has named American Repertory Theater’s Artistic Director Diane Paulus to the 2014 TIME 100, the venerable publication’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. The full list and related tributes appear in the May 5 issue of TIME, available on newsstands and tablets, and at time.com/time100. The […]

By Simon R. Bone The IOP is well known for bringing some of the biggest names in politics to speak at HKS for its world famous forum events but there is a lot more going on at its Littauer headquarters. We spoke to IOP director Trey Grayson to find out more about the Institute, its […]

By Patrick Daniel In his classic book A Nation of Immigrants, which was posthumously published in 1964, President John F. Kennedy recognized that virtually all Americans are immigrants. In his address to the 50th Annual Meeting of the Anti-Defamation League, JFK referred to America as “the great experiment, a testing ground for political liberty, a […]

By Ran Wei As this academic year is coming to an end, the Citizen invites Professor Joseph Nye and Professor Graham Allison, both former deans of HKS, to offer their thoughts on global affairs. Joseph S. Nye Jr. is Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, and former Dean of the Kennedy School. In 2004, he published Soft […]