Every day brings a wealth of extraordinary and talented names to the School to the point where it almost becomes common place to rub shoulders with presidents, statesmen and the great political thinkers of our age. But while understandably impressive it would be a grave mistake to ignore the experience and gifts that our fellow […]

By Denise Linn, MPP’15 Correspondent Armed with laptops, coffee and a shared sense of purpose, a diverse collection of students and community members gathered in Starr Auditorium on Saturday, Nov. 2 for the Harvard Kennedy School’s first Datafest. The event was hosted by the Tech4Change PIC and was one of many simultaneous hack-a-thons happening around […]

By Sabreen Dogar October 30, 2013: What a memorable day! In addition to the Red Sox clinching the World Series and an epic KSSG-sponsored Halloween party at Club Royale, a handful of lucky HKS students got the chance of a lifetime to go see the President of the United States in person at historic Faneuil […]

BY ADRIENNE MURPHY Anyone who follows recent political news knows that Texans like to talk. First, there was the stylish, hot-pink Mizuno sporting Wendy Davis and her fervent defense of abortion rights. Then came the fiery, Dr. Seuss-quoting Ted Cruz and his passionate opposition to Obamacare. Thirty-two hours and hundreds of thousands of words later, […]

By Will Hickey The time has come for sovereign wealth funds to produce some meaningful value. Now conservatively valued at around 6 trillion dollars, sovereign wealth funds, or SWFs, are massive state-owned investment vehicles of stocks, bonds, property, precious metals and other financial instruments, including private equity. They are overwhelmingly funded through oil and gas […]

Educational Equity: Where We Are and Where We Need To Be Since 2001, Congressman Mike Honda has represented the 17th Congressional District of California in the U.S. House of Representatives. His district includes Silicon Valley, the birthplace of technology innovation and the leading region for the development of the technologies of tomorrow. First as a […]

On October 14, the Mo Ibrahim Prize Committee announced, for the second year in a row, that it had not found anyone to whom to award its Prize for Achievement in African Leadership. The Prize is given to a recently-retired Executive Head of State or Government in Africa who satisfies the criteria of having been […]

Get Off the Sidelines and Get into the Game: An Interview with Senator Mazie Hirono Born in Fukushima, Japan, Mazie K. Hirono was nearly eight years old when her mother brought her and her older brother to Hawaii to escape an abusive husband and seek a better life. Hirono served in the Hawaii House of […]

Multicultural Cooking: An Interview with Anita Lo Anita Lo, chef and owner of Annisa, is one of the most respected chefs in the country, earning numerous accolades for her inventive contemporary American cuisine. In 2000, Lo opened Annisa, an intimate restaurant in Greenwich Village. In June 2009, a fire destroyed the restaurant. While plans for […]

The negotiations in Geneva are exciting, but miss much of the action. As US and Iranian diplomats sit down for the much-anticipated nuclear negotiations in Geneva, attention has focused on the drama unfolding in Europe. From Secretary Kerry’s premature departure from Israel on Friday, to French indignation over weak concessions on Saturday, there has been […]

Abstract: The U.S. government, under the leadership of President Barack Obama, has actively begun to address the plight of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals living in developing, transitional, and conflict-prone countries around the globe. Transgender persons seek to be accepted as full moral agents in the gender identity that they sense at a […]

October 25th, 2013 – Welcome to the policy cast of the Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy. This year Antonio Villaraigosa stepped down after two terms as the mayor of Los Angeles. In a city where Hispanics have become the predominant ethnic group, making up approximately half of the city’s 10 million residents, he represents a […]