For my beloved Shilpi – You shall for ever live in our hearts! (Sep 4th 1973 – May 8th 2013)  I still remember the Saturday morning of May 9, 1998 when I first met you and realized that we are made for each other. As we would often talk, that day and the following days, […]

By The Citizen Staff  Saying goodbye to the Kennedy School today – alongside the Class of 2013 – is Dean of StudentsChris Fortunato, who was named the 16th head of school at the Blair Academy in northwest New Jersey. He is leaving the Kennedy School after three and a half years. In this final interview […]

Editor’s Note: Boston native and aficionado Anthony Barrows has provided insider’s advice to exploring the region in his biweekly column ‘Breaking the HKS Bubble’.  By Anthony Barrows, MC/MPA’13 Staff Writer Commencement is upon us. This is a time filled with family, friends, celebration and ceremony. It’s also an opportunity to tour loved ones around your […]

By Irene Shih, MPP’13  To My HKS Family: For this final, graduation issue, I am grateful to be back in the pages of The Citizen again – our newspaper marked many beginnings and ends during my two years here, and I couldn’t be happier to share my farewell with you as I await my diploma […]

By Chris Lien, MC/MPA’13, Correspondent I have come from the tropics, bringing my family with me. For us, the last year has been such an adventure.  Our university flat by the river has become our very comfortable home.  Our son goes to a nearby nursery and loves his school.  We have grown to understand the […]

By Jaya Bhagat, MC-MPA’13 & Mason Fellow, Opinions Editor The letter offering me admission to Harvard in April 2012 brought with it the promise of new beginnings. As I was preparing to travel to the United States for a year as a mid-career in Cambridge, one of my seniors in the civil services in India, […]

By Amy Antonelli, MC/MPA’13, Correspondent “Damn it!!!! Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!!! This BullSH$% makes me furious. We have one of the absolute most corrupt administrations in the history of this country and 50 million idiots just voted to give Obama another term.” This statement, posted by a conservative acquaintance on Facebook days after […]

The following is a creative reflection written by Mihir Mankad, MC-MPA’13. An Oasis…of intellectual stimulation and reinvention! What is this amazingly resourced and dynamic world that we were thrust in? As a student who came from the other end of the world, from a land of stark contrasts and intense poverty, the “gift” of an […]

By Nathan Finney, MC-MPA’13, Assistant News Editor Politics is infused in everything we did this year at the Kennedy School; from classes on becoming a politician and managing campaigns, to Forum events with foreign dignitaries and workshops on the arts of communication.  Even the school motto, Ask What You Can Do, is focused on the […]

This summer, HKS students are traveling to all corners of the world to work on policymaking, advise nonprofits or conduct research. The ‘Summer Snapshots’ is a portrait of these experiences in which students — in their own words — share their stories, musings and reflections.  Fernando Berdion del Valle is  interning at a startup incubator in Mexico […]

By Chrissie Long, Staff Writer Responding to criticism of a dissertation written by a former PhD student on the IQs of immigrants, Harvard Kennedy School Professor Richard Zeckhauser defended the thesis, saying the “empirical work was careful.” “None of his advisors would have accepted his thesis had he thought that his empirical work was tilted or […]

The following statement was released by Harvard Kennedy School Dean David Ellwood on Friday: “I most certainly understand that this issue, as reported, troubles many people.  In response I offer three thoughts.  First, the views and conclusions of any graduate of this school are theirs alone, and do not represent the views of Harvard or […]