The Citizen

President         Jieun Baek, MPP2 (56%) Shashank Shukla, MC MPA (44%)   Executive Vice President        Simon R. Bone, MC MPA (36%) Maggie Williams, MPP2 (64%)   VP International Student Affairs Mario Jaimes, MPA1 (59%) Lance Li, MPP1 (41%)   VP Technology and Operations          Shradha Balakrishnan, MPA2 (61%) George Xue, MC MPA (39%) […]

By Cristina Garmendia, MPP ‘13 The Institute of Politics (IOP) is housed within the Harvard Kennedy School in Littauer but organizes events for the benefit of the entire Cambridge and Boston community. Executive Director Cathy McLaughlin reports that the IOP mailing list gets sent to 7200 people. In contrast, the Forum space only holds 750 […]

The 9/11 decennial brought no end of opinions. Here, The Citizen has compiled a taste of what you may or may not have read to mark the occasion. This national mood was (and remains) completely oblivious to the legitimate grievances that pervaded the Arab world. These grievances were associated with Western appropriations of the region’s […]

By Zachary Hughes At a conference last week in Tel Aviv, Israeli General Eyal Eisenberg warned, “What is called the ‘Arab Spring’ can become a radical Islamic winter.” His assessment echoed the fears of many concerned with the specter of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood even in January, when the series of uprisings across the Middle East […]

By Ahmed Moor, MPP ‘13 Decades of fruitless, frustrating and ultimately self-defeating negotiations have yielded nothing meaningful for the Palestinians. For the Israelis, however, 20 years of the Oslo process have been immensely productive. During that period, the number of Israelis colonizing East Jerusalem and the West Bank swelled by several hundred thousand; today, there […]

By Irene Shih, Editor-in-Chief, MPP ‘13 May, 2011. Picture it: I am twenty-four years old – young, confident, homely. My head is still spinning from the excitement of being a future K-School student. Whilst swimming in this expensive, $140K surreality, I formulate the following two-and-a-half concrete thoughts: 1) “I need to stock up on Reduced-Fat […]

By John DiGiovanni, Culture Writer, MPP ‘12 “Son, I reckon it’s a song you need.” Late Sunday in Harvard Square, illuminated by street lights but beyond that all dark, this thin voice rises up from behind, a welcome interruption to an unsettling life-contemplating meditation. I wheel around to find a weathered musician, guitar in hand. […]

By Alex Remington, Sports Columnist, MPP ‘12 It doesn’t feel like we’ve been back in school for very long, but it’s already late September: baseball season is almost over, football season is two weeks in, and hockey season began yesterday. The Red Sox will play their last game in a little over a week, and […]

By Chris Gustafson, Humor Columnist, MPP ‘12 Folks, as a Kennedy School student, I have often wondered how the other half lives. By that, I mean our misunderstood neighbors across the aquatic Allston border, Harvard Business School. In order to do this, I had to go undercover with the help of a friend, whom I […]

By Sherry Hakimi, Culture Editor, MPP ‘12 Name: Pablo Jaramillo-Quintero Program:  MPA2 Nationality: Colombia/Brazil Pre-HKS experience: Advisor, Office of the President, Colombia; Co-founder, Teach for Colombia Highlights: I worked for the Colombian government for 4 years, basically in competitiveness and poverty issues. In my final two years with the government, I worked in the Office […]

By Khaleel Seecharan, News Writer, MC/MPA ‘12 The 2012 Mid-Career class at the Kennedy School is a diverse group of students from across the world and across many fields.  Numbering just under two hundred, more than half the class is comprised of international students. A fair number of the international students are Edward S. Mason […]

By Ryoji Watanabe, MC/MPA ‘12   Ten years have passed since that fateful morning when terrorist attacks on the U.S. claimed thousands of innocent lives in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and four passenger airliners.  At 6:45 AM on September 11, 2012, more than 150 students from Harvard Kennedy School as well as from […]