By Ryoji Watanabe, News Writer, MC/MPA’12 “Make the world a better place!” For most of us, this is the vision that drew us to the Harvard Kennedy School to continue our studies.  For some however, the need to make a difference in the world stretches beyond current academic measures. One band of such student activists […]

By Dharana Rijal, News Writer, MPP ‘13 Students and community members gathered on Wednesday to discuss the urgent need to change the current portrayal of women in the mass media. The screening of the documentary Miss Representation facilitated this conversation, which was attended by more than seventy. Miss Representation exposes how the media—through both direct […]

By Matt Bieber, News Writer, MPP/MDiv ‘13 In the early 1960′s, Marshall Ganz dropped out of Harvard to join the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. He then spent 16 years working with Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers before returning to Harvard to finish his BA and earn a  Ph.D. in sociology. During the […]

By Alexander Remington, Culture Writer, MPP ‘13 In the first issue of the Citizen, on September 20, I wrote something that seemed obvious to me at the time: “The Red Sox will play on into October.” The column was about the movie Moneyball, and I concluded the column by writing: The book Moneyball was all […]

By Alexi White, Opinions Editor, MPP ‘13 Kennedy School professors are in high demand. As some of the foremost experts on public policy, they are called upon constantly to provide private consulting to governments, businesses and non-profits around the world. At the same time, journalists and the pubic rely on them for independent perspectives on […]

By Sujoyini Mandal, Opinions Columnist, MPP ‘13 On October 4th, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Afghan President Hamid Karzai agreed on a critical bilateral arrangement that has far reaching implications for both Afghan and South Asian security. This two-way “strategic partnership deal” incorporates a wide range of political, economic and trade issues, and comes […]

By Marianne Caballero, MPP ‘12 It happened again. I’ve been in the States for a year and I thought I was over this. I thought I knew what I liked by now. That nothing could throw me off course. I was admitted to Harvard, darn it; this shouldn’t be so hard. I’d expected the course […]

By Dharana Rijal, News Writer, MPP ‘13 President Obama signed free trade agreements with three countries, Colombia, South Korea, and Panama last week following approval from both the House of Representatives and the Senate the week before. These agreements bring the total number of bilateral deals that the US has with other countries to 20. […]

  By Cristina Garmendia, News Writer, MPP ‘13 This is the first part of a new Harvard Citizen series: Politics in Practice. This week, Cristina Garmendia interviewed Boston-area alumni of the Rappaport Fellowship, which matches students from area graduate programs to state and local government positions for a summer. She asks four graduates who continued […]

By Imran Sarwar, News Writer, MPP ‘13 Preliminary tests of a new malaria vaccine, RTS,S, have raised hopes about widespread prevention of the disease, especially in infants and young children in Sub-Saharan Africa. On 18th October, the results of the vaccine’s phase 3 trial were released to the public, establishing that the vaccination gave protection […]

By Ryoji Watanabe, News Writer, MC/MPA ‘12 Distant trumpets and drums accompanied the Harvard Kennedy School parade as it marched across Harvard Yard, alongside cheering crowds drenched in the rain. Jubilant students arrived in front of Widener Library and were greeted by cameras flashing from all directions, bright lights shining from above, and a huge […]

 By Khaleel Seecharan Charles Seigel, an MC/MPA ’12 candidate student, noticed  that the numbers for the Mid-Career class did not add up on September 13th, 2011 when the Kennedy School student election results were announced. While there are approximately 196 students in this year’s Mid-Career cohort, the results indicated 212 votes were cast for the […]