By Irene Shih, Editor-in-Chief, MPP ‘13 May, 2011. Picture it: I am twenty-four years old – young, confident, homely. My head is still spinning from the excitement of being a future K-School student. Whilst swimming in this expensive, $140K surreality, I formulate the following two-and-a-half concrete thoughts: 1) “I need to stock up on Reduced-Fat […]

By John DiGiovanni, Culture Writer, MPP ‘12 “Son, I reckon it’s a song you need.” Late Sunday in Harvard Square, illuminated by street lights but beyond that all dark, this thin voice rises up from behind, a welcome interruption to an unsettling life-contemplating meditation. I wheel around to find a weathered musician, guitar in hand. […]

By Alex Remington, Sports Columnist, MPP ‘12 It doesn’t feel like we’ve been back in school for very long, but it’s already late September: baseball season is almost over, football season is two weeks in, and hockey season began yesterday. The Red Sox will play their last game in a little over a week, and […]

By Chris Gustafson, Humor Columnist, MPP ‘12 Folks, as a Kennedy School student, I have often wondered how the other half lives. By that, I mean our misunderstood neighbors across the aquatic Allston border, Harvard Business School. In order to do this, I had to go undercover with the help of a friend, whom I […]

By Sherry Hakimi, Culture Editor, MPP ‘12 Name: Pablo Jaramillo-Quintero Program:  MPA2 Nationality: Colombia/Brazil Pre-HKS experience: Advisor, Office of the President, Colombia; Co-founder, Teach for Colombia Highlights: I worked for the Colombian government for 4 years, basically in competitiveness and poverty issues. In my final two years with the government, I worked in the Office […]

By Khaleel Seecharan, News Writer, MC/MPA ‘12 The 2012 Mid-Career class at the Kennedy School is a diverse group of students from across the world and across many fields.  Numbering just under two hundred, more than half the class is comprised of international students. A fair number of the international students are Edward S. Mason […]

By Ryoji Watanabe, MC/MPA ‘12   Ten years have passed since that fateful morning when terrorist attacks on the U.S. claimed thousands of innocent lives in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and four passenger airliners.  At 6:45 AM on September 11, 2012, more than 150 students from Harvard Kennedy School as well as from […]

By Shloka Nath, News Editor, MPP ‘13 Sitting on the sensitive border between India and Bangladesh is the Sundarbans, among the most wondrous and also most endangered ecosystems in the world. It is a precious mangrove forest of 10,000 sq. km, 60% of which is in Bangladesh and the rest in India. The region is […]

By Matt Bieber, Features Writer, MPP ‘11 Paul Katz is a student of social history at the Universidad Nacional de Luján in Buenos Aires, Argentina and a 2009 graduate of Harvard College. 　Over the last several years, his research has focused on the role of civil society institutions under Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’ dictatorships. 　His article, […]

BY SANJEEV BERY On January 1, 2011, few would have predicted that Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak would soon be removed from office. But just three weeks later, thousands of Egyptians gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square to begin the push for change. In the aftermath of Tunisia’s political shakeup, Egyptian citizens called for an end to […]

BY DAVID SHEPARD In February 2011, Teach For America’s 20th Anniversary Summit convened the cast of all-star education reformers of our generation. Although these leaders left us inspired, their rhetoric raised more questions than it answered. In the opening session, former Washington, DC, public schools chancellor Michelle Rhee initiated an ever-quickening series of rallying cries, […]

BY EDMUND CONWAY Walking down the street with a friend one day, you spot a $20 bill lying on the sidewalk. You stoop down gleefully to pick it up when your friend, who happens to be an economist, grabs you by the shoulder. “Stop,” he says, “That note isn’t really there.” “What?” you say. “If […]