Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
Ash Center Student Speaker Series
In the final Student Speaker Series event of the year, Norma Torres Mendoza and Jiachen Sarah Zhang will explore themes of participation, civic leadership, and political representation as they highlight their capstone PAE research projects. Norma’s work evaluating the outcomes of Mi Familia Vota, an organization which aims to foster civic leadership in Latino/a communities, focused on fostering civic leadership in 120 young Latinos in Texas and California. Sarah’s project, like Norma’s, looked at increasing representation and...
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
Ash Center Student Speaker Series
Join Sarah Tesar and Pitichoke Chulapamornsri, both second-year MPPs at the Kennedy School, for a discussion of their Policy Analysis Exercise, "Minibonds: Inclusive Finance for our Cities." Sarah and Pitichoke's PAE took the form of a business plan, which they have since launched as WeVest.
WeVest is a new approach to public finance. Through minibonds, citizens can invest directly in their own community, allowing municipalities to raise money locally for infrastructure and service delivery, while providing tax-free...
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
Ash Center Student Speaker Series
Join some of the student organizers from the 2016 Black Policy Conference at HKS for a discussion recapping and debriefing this year's conference. We'll discuss the history of the conference, the planning and organizing process, and highlight some of the content that was discussed.
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
Ash Center Student Speaker Series
Speakers: TAN Qi(MPA-Mason '16), former Program Officer, American Bar Association Rule Of Law Initiative China Program WEI Wei(MPP '17), Journalist, People's Daily Beijing Branch
Moderator: Tony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, and Director, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
Ash Center Student Speaker Series
Speakers: Richard Medina Gómez (MPP '17), Editor-in-Chief, Latin American Policy Journal Caitlin Callahan (MPP '16), Managing Editor, Print, Kennedy School Review
Join the editorial staff from some of the Kennedy School's policy journals for a discussion of the impact, value, and audience. These students will highlight some of their journal's recent work, upcoming features, and discuss the role student policy journals play in the Kennedy School and the public discourse more...
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
About the Event
This week, HKS students Tomás Insua (MPA '16) and Andy Kanjarpalayam Palanisamy (MPA-MC '16) will discuss their work on Green issues, in an event moderated by Adjunct Professor of Public Policy Muriel Rouyer. Tomás, returning from the Climate Action Network Assembly in Berlin, will talk about “What happens after Paris: the 2020 goals of the climate movement”. Andy, returning from the World Government Summit at Dubai, will present on “Sustainability Observations from Dubai”.
Ash Center, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
Part of the Technology and Democracy Workshop Series
With Hollie Russon Gilman, Civic Innovation Fellow, New America Foundation and Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs
Hollie Russon Gilman, PhD will introduce participants to key concepts, tools, and language at the frontiers of civic technology. Taking the perspective of a government official who values innovation and is...
The Office of Career Advancement will be hosting a brown bag discussion with Ash Center senior fellow Peter Quilter on Tuesday, March 1st at 12:30pm in Taubman 401. Quilter joined the Ash Center in 2016 after serving as a senior official in the Organization of American States (OAS). Prior to his tenure at the OAS, Quilter worked as a senior policy staffer covering Latin America at the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Department of State. At the Ash Center, Quilter’s work focuses on the growth and retrenchment of democracy in the Americas. ...
