The Citizen

By Wei Luo, MPP 2017 On Saturday September 10, students and staff joined with community partners for HKS Serves, the Kennedy School’s signature day of service. The Citizen followed a group of volunteers to the nearby Cambridge Community Center, a non-profit providing after school and summer youth programming. Valentino Robinson, the Center’s Community Affairs Director, […]

  Pitichoke Chulapamornsri (MPP ’17) is the current KSSG student body president. Born in Thailand, Pitichoke worked at Goldman Sachs as an analyst in the Private Equity Group, a fund of funds with exposure to over 500 managers and 10,000 underlying companies before the Kennedy School. He also served under the Thai Minister of Finance, […]

By Alen Amini Harvard Kennedy School MPP1 candidates have spent the past two weeks addressing immigration reform in the United States as part of their first year capstone, spring exercise. Students, in diverse groups of 5-6 first year classmates, are tasked with analyzing employment, family, diversity, and refugee based visa allotments for immigrants seeking legal […]

Adam LaRose and Erika Ferguson The first time we sat in Steve Jarding’s course, we were very inspired by his appeal to the class; he offered a moving story about why we and our fellow classmates should accept the most demanding call to public service: running for office. He was not shy about the fact […]

By Wei Luo On Monday February 22, HKS kicked off its Spring Public Service Week with an evening event featuring Max Finberg, Director of AmeriCorps VISTA. The event was hosted at the JFK Jr. Forum and was moderated by HKS Dean Doug Elmendorf. The conversation started with a discussion of Mr. Finberg’s path to public […]

By Fayrouz Saad, MC-MPA 2015 (To the theme of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) Now, this is a story all about how Our lives got flipped turned upside down This will only take a minute So don’t you move Here’s the story of the mid-career students at Harvard Kennedy School All around the World born and […]

By Justin Hartley, MC-MPA’ 2015 My Father instilled in me the virtues of public service from a young age. He exemplified qualities I can only aspire to have and taught me that it is a privilege to serve and that resilience – unrelenting determination – can make dreams come true. In 1992 I was an […]

By Denise Linn and Alison Flint, Co-chairs of Tech4Change The importance of technology in government has been vividly displayed in recent public policy debates over everything from cyber security and net neutrality to the failed Obamacare website launch. As a leading public policy school, Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) seeks to prepare future public sector leaders […]

The Citizen Report  The Economic Prosperity for Peace Conference, a first-of-its kind student conference at Harvard Business School, was organized on April 26th. The Conference was aimed at exploring the role the private sector in bridging divides between Arabs and Israelis and laying the foundation for a sustainable and prosperous peace in the Middle East. […]

By Malik Siraj Akbar, MC-MPA’ 15, Web Editor For the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) students graduating this May who still can’t believe that it is the time to say good bye to this wonderful school, Friday will come with another earnest reminder about the end of this academic year as the School will be hosting […]

By Malik Siraj Akbar, MC-MPA’ 15, Web Editor “What is one thing that will surprise the future generations of historians when China will overtake the United States as the world’s number one power?” asked one of Asia’s top thinkers, Kishore Mahbubani, to a crowded audience at JFK Forum on Wednesday while delivering this year’s Albert […]