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On August 26, 2014, the HKS Community spent a day volunteering throughout the Greater Boston area. Nearly 400 students participated on this Saturday afternoon. Organized by the Kennedy School’s Martha Foley, the day saw 15 public service organizations host student volunteers on projects rangings from painting walls to planting trees. HKS Serves is an ongoing […]

Theodora Skeadas, MPPA Theodora spent the summer in Turkey on a Fulbright Program grant, where she taught English in Antalya and researched the barriers to employment for Syrian refugee youth in Southern Turkey. Dominique Gilbert, MPP 1 Dominique was in Brussels, Belgium working to promote efficient global trade and travel. Joelle Thomas, MMP1 Joelle travelled […]

By Angie McPhaul, MPP2 Last spring, MPP1s Alicia Olivarez and Juana Hernandez designed and led the Leadership Service Seminar “Race, Place, and Equity: the California Central Valley.” Sponsored by HKS faculty member Marshall Ganz and funded by the Office of Degree Programs and Student Affairs and the Center for Public Leadership, the Leadership Service Seminar […]

Jane, tell us in your own words about what you do here at HKS? In my role as Student Services Coordinator, I have the pleasure of working closely with our student groups and student conferences as they plan events on campus. In doing so, I also collaborate regularly with other HKS offices such as Facilities, […]

Harvard Kennedy School’s Kousha Navidar and his team have launched a new YouTube satirical news series called “Bad News.” Navidar, a second-year MPP student, sat down with The Citizen to talk about the series and his experience so far.  Q: For the uninitiated, what is “Bad News”? “Bad News” is a satirical news show at […]

Harvard took the first of many steps necessary to create an environment safe from sexual harassment and sexual assault during this semester’s orientation.  As representatives of a culture where 1 in 5 women are sexually assaulted while in college, it is naive to believe our one-hour discussion solved the problem.  Some may dismiss this as […]

By Patrick Daniel As the Austrian-born American management consultant Peter Drucker once said, “What gets measured gets managed.” When Eric Schmidt visited the Harvard Kennedy School last spring, everyone listened. Insights from the Executive Chairman of Google were in such high demand that students filled all three levels of the auditorium. The talk hosted by […]

By Tommy Tobin, Editor-in-Chief The Kennedy School community is full of wonderfully kind people committed to asking themselves what they can do to make their communities and this world a better place. In this issue, we’re fortunate to have Matt Clemons, Director of HKS Admissions, to welcome the newest members of our community. We are also […]

By Matt Clemons Orientation and the start of classes are always an exciting time for those of us in the Admissions Office. We travel, we read, we analyze, we deliberate, and finally pick a class we feel will learn well together. Seeing the results of our labor in the form of new students walking around […]

At the invitation of Harvard President Drew Faust, Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times recently visited campus to welcome incoming students to the University. Mr. Kristof is a graduate of Harvard College and now sits on the university’s Board of Overseers.  In advance of his conversation to incoming students, The HKS Citizen had an […]

BY JACOB SHELLY When President Obama stood outside the Blue Room on September 10th to announce a major expansion of airstrikes in the Middle East, he explained that he had no other choice. The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), he warned, poses a threat to the entire region — including American citizens, personnel, […]

BY JOHN BERTETTO On 23 July 2014, Isaac Lara wrote a piece that appeared in the Kennedy School Review titled Crime Square: How Advances in Criminal Justice Policy Can Improve Public Safety in New York City. Mr. Lara suggests that reductions in crime may come via Place Theory, and suggests a three-pronged approach: (1) increasing […]