By Anthony Barrows With finals bearing down on us, you may not be thinking about all the wintertime fun to be had around Boston and Cambridge. Although you may be dreading the cold and ice and snow, New England is a fine place to spend the months when Persephone returns to Hades,’ so embrace. Below […]

By Alexi White At HKS, prestige is the currency that matters most. Fame can get you access to the inner circle, but beware the fall from grace. It’s on your way down that the knives come out. This is the principal lesson to be learned from our school’s complex history with Paula Broadwell, the former-PhD-candidate-turned-best-selling-author. […]

By Balakrishnan Madhava What follows is an interview with Richard Parker, a lecturer in public policy and senior fellow at the Shorenstein Center. A former economic advisor to Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou (2009-2011), Parker has worked as both a journalist and a philanthropist. His full biography can be found on the Harvard Kennedy School […]

By Neil Gundavda The Kennedy School is one of the most poorly-designed campuses I have seen. I made this remark rather vociferously one of the first times I attempted to navigate the narrow staircases of Littauer, replete with people who could not find a more inconvenient place for conversation.  A student in front of me […]

By Citizen Staff The student body at Harvard Kennedy School believes in creating opportunities for active engagement and knowledge sharing. Nowhere is this more evident than in the passion and zeal with which students plan and propose treks every year. This year is no different, with students already proposing 10 treks* that are scheduled to […]

By Citizen Staff In a world where 2.5 billion people live in poverty, conversation at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) of Government on the issues of hunger and deprivation seems lacking. A recent simulation event organized by the Student Public Service Collaborative (SPSC) as the culmination of a month-long food collection drive attempted to change […]

By Karly Schledwitz On Oct. 20 and 21, Harvard hosted the 48th annual Head of the Charles Regatta, the world’s largest two-day rowing event. The Kennedy School Student Government (KSSG) hosted a tent on Sunday that was located in Reunion Village, on the Boston side of the river, along with a series of other tents […]

By Citizen Staff The following is an excerpt of an interview with Dean David Ellwood. The remainder of the interview can be found here. Q: We have heard HKS is looking to undertake a renovation project. Can you tell us more about this? Over the last year or two, we have brought in a variety […]

By Leila El-Khatib Tell us about yourself. I am a second year MPP student at Harvard Kennedy School and moved to Cambridge from Long Beach, California.  Before graduate school, I worked in politics and public administration in the Los Angeles area for seven years. I also took some time off to travel to India, Southeast […]

By Irene Shih The New York Times ran an article in their Education section last month, titled “For Asians, School Tests Are Vital Steppingstones.” The piece lauded the Asian American work ethic and called attention to controversy surrounding prevalence of Asian American students in elite New York public schools. This past September, civil rights groups […]

By Bryann DaSilva A group of concerned students at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) are mobilizing to raise awareness about the ethical consequences of the University’s enormous endowment. The Harvard University endowment, at over $32 billion, is greater than the gross domestic product (GDP) of around 90 countries. It is far greater than the endowment […]

By Nathan Finney Veteran’s Day was always more than just a long weekend in my family.  Coming from a family that has had someone serve in the military every generation going back to America’s War for Independence, at least a small portion of this holiday was annually dedicated to attending Veteran’s Day parades and calling […]