The Citizen

by HKS Parent Advocacy Group (Jess Ausinheiler, Alex Glade, Elizabeth Patton, Anton Tejeda, and Carolina Zambrano) Photo by Picsea on Unsplash.   Dear Future Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Students, There is an old proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child.” But we need your help transforming HKS into such a village for the student-parents among us. […]

Dear Reader, This article has been temporarily suspended. While The Citizen remains committed to maintaining a platform for student opinions to be shared among the HKS community, when these opinions involve assessments and criticism of individuals, students ought to be held accountable for their opinions. The opinion piece has therefore been suspended until the authors reveal […]

April 17, 2018 Photo by Vasily Koloda on Unsplash Dear Dean Chapman, Welcome to the Harvard Kennedy School! We are glad to have you here and look forward to working with you. Many of us have spent the year or two of our degrees working to hold HKS accountable to its Diversity Statement. In this statement, HKS committed […]

By Brian Monahan, MPA 2018   Commencement day I will be wearing the “Donate Life” logo of the New England Organ Bank to promote awareness of the need for more organ donations. When I arrived at the Kennedy School with a successful kidney transplant of 20 years, I never imagined that I would be searching […]

[Cartoon source: The Washington Post] by Andhyta Firselly Utami, MPP 2018 Here’s a novel idea: use cartoons and satire to explain science, specifically climate science, to the public. Award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post political cartoonist Tom Toles used this recipe as they embarked on a creative collaboration to publish […]

On Sunday, February 11, Harvard University announced that Lawrence S. Bacow become the 29th president of Harvard. Larry Bacow is an accomplished and respected leader in higher education, having been president of Tufts and chancellor of MIT. He knows Harvard very well, earning three degrees at Harvard and serving as a member of the Harvard […]

Harvard Kennedy School Dean Doug Elmendorf announced today that former governor of Ohio John R. Kasich will be delivering the Kennedy School graduation address at this year’s commencement ceremony. Kasich was elected governor of Ohio in 2010 and re-elected in 2014. During his time in office, Kasich has worked to improve the state’s economy and […]

By: Ekram Ibrahim (Mason MC/MPA Fellow) Photo by Matthew Hamilton on Unsplash Sexual predators, pedophiles, and abusers are people who used to scare me until I met Marc. Last summer, I was sitting in a meditation circle in upstate New York where we were talking about sexual traumas. I was describing what it means to be a “sexually […]

By: David Duesing On Friday, December 1, the Kennedy School celebrated the official completion of its years-long campus transformation project. With the campus expansion project completed, the school now boasts many new facilities, including six new classrooms, a new student lounge, and 15 new team rooms. The Kennedy School’s expansion has over 7,510 donors from […]

By: David Duesing Photo Credit: fossbytes.com   Over the last year, the value of one Bitcoin increased over 1,250%. If you would have invested $75 in Bitcoin on December 1, 2016, you would have earned $1,000 in interest by December 1, 2017. If you would have invested $47,068 – the Kennedy School’s tuition in 2016 – […]

By: Shamil Ibragimov Photo Credit: Rodion Kutsaev on Unspalsh.com   In the early 1950s, professor Solomon Asch conducted an experiment to investigate the extent to which social pressure from a majority group could cause a person to conform. Asch found that one of the situational factors that influences conformity is the size of the opposing majority […]

By: Dale Walker Photo Credit: Alex Kotliarskyi on Unsplash.com    As a 2017 Fellow in Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative, I have come to rank David Autor among the best economists in my primary area of study, economic inequality. This commentary responds to an excellent paper by Drs. Autor of MIT and Anna Salomons of University School […]