Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Floor 2, Suite 200N
Former Mason Fellow Sanjay Kumar will recount his journey from India to the Harvard Kennedy School, with excerpts from his new memoir, Katihar to Kennedy: The Road Less Travelled. He will discuss his humble beginnings and the various obstacles he faced and opportunities he seized along the way to continuing his studies at HKS and his life beyond. Tim Glynn-Burke, Ash Center Executive Director, Programs, will moderate.
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Floor 2, Suite 200N
Join student leaders from the Community Development Project for a discussion about how Harvard graduate students can engage with local governments and assist in tackling urban challenges. The Community Development Project is a student organization comprised of over 80 Harvard Kennedy School and Graduate School of Design students who work and consult with local government agencies and organizations to find equitable and just solutions to urban challenges. Representatives from three of the Project's yearlong initiatives will present descriptions of their work...
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Floor 2, Suite 200N
From 1979-2015, thousands of Chinese parents abandoned their daughters under China’s “one child” policy, creating one of the largest pools of internationally adoptable children in world history. In this session, Jenna Cook, Harvard Sociology PhD candidate, will report on her working paper, supported by a research grant from the Ash Center, which draws on ethnographic...
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Floor 2, Suite 200N
Do local elections promote responsive governance in the global south? In this talk, Peter Johannessen, Ash Center Democracy Postdoctoral Fellow, AY 2018-2020, will draw on evidence from Brazil to illustrate how local elections can undermine policy responsiveness in highly decentralized contexts. He will demonstrate that voters can unwittingly push mayors to prioritize highly visible infrastructure projects at the expense of less visible – but potentially more effective – policies.
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Floor 2, Suite 200N
Join us for a collaborative session led by Deepti Doshi, Ash Technology & Democracy Fellow, Facebook Societal Innovation Partnerships Director. This highly interactive event will engage attendees in a discussion about what the role of community building on digital platforms can and should be in our increasingly fragmented society. Specifically, attendees will have the opportunity to examine different forms for community building happening digitally and explore ways to strengthen this new phenomenon.
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Floor 2, Suite 200N
Join Ash Center Visting Democracy Fellow Jonathan Collins, Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Professor of Political Science and Education at Brown University, in discussion about the way that people interact with their municipal governments and their local school boards. Collins will explore how policies and outcomes produced by school boards both begin with the extent to which school boards establish a culture of deliberation with the public - a culture that can be measured. He will also illustrate how the racial context of...
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Floor 2, Suite 200N
You're invited to a discussion with Kathryn Perera, former Ash Center Democracy Fellow, Deputy Director in the English National Health Service, and a current Fellow of Practice in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Psychology of Change program; and Donald Berwick, MD, MPP, Institute for Healthcare Improvement President Emeritus and Senior Fellow. Marshall Ganz, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, will moderate.... Read more about Ash Community Speaker Series -- Leadership, Organizing, and Innovation: Making Health Care Work
