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The Asian American Policy Review editorial team has been keeping a close eye on the events in Ferguson, Missouri and elsewhere around the country. The issue of whether justice was served has riveted and divided communities across the nation. Asian Americans and Pacific Islander communities too have been divided on the grand jury decision to […]

Given the criminal justice system’s racist history, the failures of  grand juries to indict Officer Darren Wilson and Officer Daniel Pantaleo are unsurprising and show the need for dismantling, not reforming.  BY REETU MODY First a St. Louis grand jury failed to find enough evidence to indict Officer Darren Wilson for firing six shots that […]

Today activists at the Harvard Kennedy School held a powerful vigil for the tragic and unnecessary deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and many of the other young black men who have lost their lives due to systemic injustices and racism that plague our society. This vigil took place in the Kennedy School […]

BY DEREK PHAM While strategic ambiguity has been a significant instrument of US defense strategy in the Asia-Pacific, emerging regional threats and power imbalances have made this strategy increasingly difficult to justify. Strategic ambiguity insulates us from hard commitments in regional conflicts not directly related to our interests and exacerbates China’s uncertainty about our motivations. […]

In a rare sight this Monday, His Royal Highness Prince Turki bin Saud al-Faisal, former Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States and Dan Meridor, former Deputy Prime Minister of Israel, addressed a public audience together at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. The former statesmen discussed instability in the Middle East, potential areas for […]

Developing countries need a democratization of development aid. Not the democratization of giving that Bill Clinton or Jeffery Sachs called for, but a democratization that is realized through a real and balanced collaboration between international aid disbursing organizations, local organizations and local communities that receive aid; a collaboration that moves receiving organizations, communities, and countries […]

  Prepared by: Malik Siraj Akbar, Web Editor, The Citizen    Guest Speaker Event  When: December 1 at 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Where: L-330 The Childhood PIC will host Neil McQuarrie, MPA 2014, who will speak about his experiences at Wraparound, Milwaukee. Contact: Jenn Menn: Jenn_Menn@hks15.harvard.edu   Discussion on Affordable Care Act When: December […]

Matti, tell us a bit about yourself and what brought you to the Kennedy School? I have always been an optimist and a can-do -type organizer, wanting to create good vibes in wherever I go and to help people be better in what they do. I went to business school for undergrad, which was a […]

Harvard Public Affairs and Communications, together with Harvard Kennedy School’s Student Public Service Collaborative, will once again participate in Community Servings’ 22nd annual Pie in the Sky fundraiser. Community Servings is a local non-profit that delivers free meals and nutritional programs to those who are critically ill and/or homebound throughout the Commonwealth. They prepare and deliver nearly 10,000 lunches and dinners […]

By Nahal Bahri, University of California, Berkeley School of Law J.D. Candidate 2015; Harvard Law School, 3rd year Exchange Program 2014-2015 On Saturday, October 25th, the Harvard Business School Finance Club and the Harvard Kennedy School Finance and Macro PIC hosted the 2014 Finance Conference titled, “Finance in the New Era of Growth.” Students at […]

Starr Auditorium is not a regular Friday night haunt for most Kennedy School students. But when it’s Halloween – all bets are off! Many say that print journalism is dying out—a dinosaur in an era of digital media. We at The Citizen disagree. As a satire on this premise, this student print newspaper hosted our […]

Jieun, could you tell us more about your film Divided Families?  What inspired you to produce the film? This documentary tells the story of Korean families who have been separated since the Korean War. While most media coverage focus on divided families between North and South Korea, there hasn’t been much focus on divided families who […]