Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
About the Event
This week the Student Speaker Series highlights the Kennedy Senate Simulation, a fascinating event organized by HKS students. The Simulation--held at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate--put students in the role of sitting United States Senators as they took up substantive policy issues, honed the legislation in committee, and debated on the Senate floor.
Simulation organizers Michael Thng (MPP '16) and Andrew Levine (MPP '17) will debrief their experience running the innaugural Kennedy Senate Simulation...
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
About the Event
Join two students for a discussion of their work as organizers and activists. Both Mid-Career Mason Fellows, Ana Babović, a Ford Foundation Mason Fellow, will discuss her leadership role in Serbia on the Move, while Chun Zhou, a Tomorrow Education Foundation Fellow, will highlight advocacy work she has done to protect natural habitats along the Yangtze River.
These two women's work as activists and organizers, in countries which can pose unique challenges to those seeking to drive social change, has required them to be...
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
About the Event
Join three HKS students for a discussion of Island governance, development and infrastructure, from three different perspectives. Paula Brown, a Mid-Career Mason and Ash Center Ford Foundation Mason Fellow, is a Transportation Planner in Kingston Jamaica. Deloris Wilson, a joint-degree MPA student at the Kennedy School and JD Candidate at Georgetown Law, has worked with the government of Sint Maarten to create an innovation lab, first as an Ash Center Summer Fellow and more recently through an independent research project. Ashveena Gajeelee, also a...
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
About the Event
Tech literacy is increasingly important for today’s public leaders. Join this week’s student speakers—each with a very different experiences leveraging technology to improve the quality of democratic governance—for an introduction to some of the most common terms, concepts, and tools of digital technologists. Denise Linn (MPP ’15) develops, executes, and evaluates data and other tech projects for ...
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
Ash Center Student Speaker Series
Peiran Wei (MC-MPA '15)
Lunch will be provided
About the Event
The rise of private wealth is one of the most important developments in modern China, with implications for the country’s social, economic, and political arenas. How individuals choose to deploy such resources will shape the relationships between the individual and the state, between the state and business, and between the state and the social sector.
Ash Center Foyer (124 Mt. Auburn St. Suite 200-North)
The Ash Center cordially invites you to its next Student Speaker Series event, Designing Better Engagement: Reflection on the Black in Design Conference
Shani A. Carter, Master’s in Urban Planning candidate ’16 at the Graduate School of Design, and Courtney D. Sharpe, Master’s in Urban Planning candidate ’16 at the Graduate School of Design
Ash Center Foyer (124 Mt. Auburn St. Suite 200-North), 12-1 pm
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
Ash Center Student Speaker Series
Deena Zeplowitz (MPP ’16)
Lunch will be provided
About the Event The neighborhood of East Portland, OR, was not always part of Portland. Throughout the 1980s and 90s, East Portland was slowly annexed by Portland, and although it is now a fully integrated part of the city, service provision still lags. In 2009, the East Portland Action Plan was developed to improve livability in East Portland. The plan was ambitious: it encompassed 63 strategies and 269 action items, all aimed at...
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
Ash Center Student Speaker Series
Nico Miailhe (MC-MPA ’15)
Lunch will be provided
About the Event This week’s Student Speaker Series will continue on the theme of technology, focusing on one HKS alum whose work centers on using technology and a startup mentality to disrupt the status quo, all with the goal of improving governance and increasing participation.
Nico Miailhe (MC-MPA ’15) is a research fellow with the Ash Center, as well as a founder of the Future Society at HKS,...
