Jieun Baek, a second-year master of public policy student from California, was elected president of the student government last week with 56 percent of the vote. Her opponent, Shashank Shukla, a mid-career master of public affairs student, received 44 percent of the vote. Baek will serve with executive vice president-elect Maggie Williams, also an MPP2, […]

This summer, HKS students are traveling to all corners of the world to work on policymaking, advise nonprofits and conduct research. The ‘Summer Snapshots’ is a portrait of these experiences in which students — in their own words — share their stories, musings and reflections.  To see all the Snapshots, follow this link. Jieun Baek is an MPP2 […]

Alexandra Stanek (MPP/HBS MBA ’15), Dan Bowles (MPP/HBS MBA ’15) and Nadir Vissanjy (MPP/Sloan MBA ’15) at the start of the 2013 Water to Wine Half-Marathon in Healdsburg, California. All three achieved personal records in the race. After running 13.1 miles, the three of them, along with a dozen of HKS students and alums, went […]

Sara Greenberg spent the summer in Tel Aviv training and playing with Israel’s Women’s National Lacrosse Team. The team played in the World Cup in Oshawa, Ontario in mid-July, marking Israel’s inaugural appearance on the global lacrosse stage. The team finished in the top eight.  While in Israel, Greenberg also worked for a social finance start-up, Social […]

This summer, HKS students are traveling to all corners of the world to work on policymaking, advise nonprofits and conduct research. The ‘Summer Snapshots’ is a portrait of these experiences in which students — in their own words — share their stories, musings and reflections.  To see all the Snapshots, follow this link. Andrea Titus spent the summer […]

Q: Where are you from? A: Northridge, California. We’re famous for the 1994 Northridge Earthquake. That’s when I got my big scar on my forehead. I was 6 years old, and a bookshelf fell on me, and I got 39 stiches that morning. I was a very popular girl in school for a few weeks […]

By The Citizen Staff The 2012-2013 academic year was marked by both exciting and tragic events. Internally, students pushed for greater diversity on campus, called on Harvard to invest its endowment more sustainably and celebrated the news of a campus renovation. Externally, the campus played an active role in the presidential elections, faculty were quoted […]

By Karly Schledwitz, MPP’14 Staff Writer Bittersweet. That is how many of the 562 Kennedy School graduates have described this graduation day. After lectures from world leaders in the JFK Jr. Forum, long hours in the library and the forging of friendships with classmates from around the world, it is now time to celebrate the […]

The following e-mail was sent by Mukhtar Abdi Ogle, MC/MPA ’13, to his classmates at the Kennedy School. With the author’s permission, we have reprinted it here.   From: Abdi Ogle, Mukhtar Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 9:28 PM To: Mid-Careers/MPAs Subject: The process of me walking straight has just begun: THANK YOU ALL   […]

By Azum Z. Ali, MPP’13, Correspondent They say that the more you find out, the less you know. In my final few weeks at HKS, I have confronted my own naïveté. HKS is a meeting point for hundreds of students from all walks of life and from every corner of the world, working to address […]

By Jon Murad, MC-MPA’13, Staff Writer They had come from Cambridge and Boston, of course, and from Burlington and Lowell and Worchester. They had come from Connecticut and New Hampshire, from Maine and New York. They had come from Chicago, from Quebec, from Australia. Thousands of law-enforcement officers gathered at MIT on April 24, to […]

Dear Friends and Families of the Graduating Class of 2013: Last week, a group of students and I had the opportunity to meet with Representative John Lewis from the state of Georgia.  Lewis was only 23 years old when he spoke in the historic March on Washington in 1963 with Martin Luther King, Jr.  While […]