The Citizen

By Patrick Daniel  When Jimmy Carter entered the stage at Memorial Church, to an event hosted by Harvard Divinity School last week, everyone waited for his words on tenterhooks. So popular was the former president that the first twenty rows were filled half an hour before the event even started.  Carter has had a long […]

  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 […]

By Patrick Daniel   “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.”  Proverbs 4:23 When Facebook launched on February 4, 2004 its popularity quickly spread around Harvard. For students the social network was a tool to stay in touch with other students. Mark Zuckerberg, however, had a bigger vision. He […]

 By Stacy Clark Reading Harvard Crimson Staff Writer Matthew. Clarida’s September headline, “School of Public Health Renamed with $350 Million Gift, Largest in Harvard History” immediately caught my attention. It wasn’t the remarkable size of the gift as much as it was the exact amount. Seeing the words “350 Million” and “Public Health” caused me […]

By Sarah Allin, MPP2 tap n. tap: a device consisting of a spout and valve attached to the end of a pipe to control the flow of a fluid trotter n. ˈträ-tər:  A pig’s foot cooked and used as food While their name may suggest it, pig feet don’t pour from the tap at the […]

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 […]