Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
Ash Center Student Speaker Series
Carolyn Anderson (MC-MPA ’15) and Ivo Correa (MC-Mason ’16)
Lunch will be provided
About the Event This week, to celebrate HUBweek and the Ash Center’s #Tech4Democracy Showcase and Challenge, the Student Speaker Series will focus on tech policy, and highlight two mid-career students who have spent their careers working...
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
Ash Center Student Speaker Series Norma Torres Mendoza (MPP ’16) and Priscilla Lee (MC-MPA ’16)
Lunch will be provided
About the Event Join Norma Torres Mendoza, a 2015 Ash Center Summer Fellow in Innovation, and Priscilla Lee, the 2015-16 Roy and Lila Ash Fellow, in a discussion on their work on providing access to the education system to people who are often left out. Norma Torres Mendoza worked to open an education center in Houston, TX (scheduled to open this October!), where community members can...
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
Ash Center Student Speaker Series Rachael Stephens (MPP ’16) and Glenn Grimshaw (MC-MPA ’15)
Lunch will be provided
About the Event Join two 2015 Ash Center Summer Fellows in Innovation as they discuss their summer working on the cutting edge of municipal innovation. Rachael Stephens and Glenn Grimshaw both worked in the New York City government, where they were placed in the departments of Small Business Services and Technology & Innovation. Both worked on projects aimed at taking an...
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
Ash Center Student Speaker Series
Adam LaRose (MPP ’16) and Chris Sommerfeld (MPA ’16)
Lunch will be provided
About the Event Of all the challenges the federal government faces, few seem as intractable as the sheer size of the federal bureaucracy. Policy innovations, bright ideas and new technology can all drive government efficiency and effectiveness forward by leaps and bounds—but only if government has the capacity to adopt them.
Adam LaRose and Chris Sommerfeld, both 2015 Ash Center Summer Fellows in...
Ash Center Foyer - 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge
Ash Center Student Speaker Series Nada Zohdy, MPP ’15, Taylor Woods, MPP ’15, and Rikki Dean, Ash Center Visiting Democracy Fellow Friday, April 24, 2015, 12–1 p.m.
Ash Center Foyer 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
Lunch will be provided.
About the Event
The world's attention has been captured by recent popular uprisings: Hong Kong, The Occupy Movement, the Arab Spring, and beyond. But what are the real...
Ash Center Foyer,124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
Ash Center Student Speaker Series (Tax Week Special!)
Charles Data Alemi, MPP ’15 Yunjung Song, MPP ’15
Lunch will be provided
About the Event As most celebrate (or mourn) the end of tax season here in the United States, we turn our attention overseas toward two efforts to make revenue collection more modern and transparent. On behalf of the South Sudan Customs Service, Charles Data Alemi has studied the challenges facing that new country’s attempts to better collect customs and indirect taxes levied on imports. In particular his talk will focus on the complexity of the current policy and the challenges presented by a lack of data availability. Yunjung Songwill talk about her work exploring the potential for broader disclosure of taxpayer data in South Korea. By comparing the tax privacy policies of a number of other countries, she suggests a new tax data disclosure policy for the National Tax Service of South Korea. What is the right balance, she asks, between economic feasibility, operational feasibility, political feasibility, the public’s right to know, and tax data privacy?... Read more about Big Data, Privacy, and the Power of the Purse: Bringing Revenue Collection into the 21st Century
Ash Center Foyer - 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge
Ash Center Student Speaker Series
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, PhD Student, Harvard University Department of Government Belén Fernandez Milmanda, PhD Candidate, Harvard University Department of Government Tomer Perry (moderator), PhD Candidate, Stanford University Department of Political Science
About the Event Political observers have long worried about the threat that powerful economic interests present to democracy. But how much power do businesses actually possess in the policymaking process, and what are the specific ways in which firms exercise that power? This panel will present research on important -- but previously under-appreciated mechanisms -- for business influence in both developed and developing democracies.... Read more about Business Power and Democracy: How Employers Engage Workers in Politics
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
Mary Rose Mazzola, MPP ’15 and Pamela Lachman MPP ’16
Lunch will be provided. This week’s student speaker seminar is on criminal justice and policing reform, building on last week’s Forum event with Dean Ellwood and this week’s HKS student-organized Future of Policing series to prepare constructive, tangible solutions to submit to President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing. The conversation will cover topics ranging from the effects of certified Batterer Intervention Programs on domestic violence recidivism to improving police/community relations, particularly with young people of color.... Read more about Prospects for Large-Scale Criminal Justice System Reform
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
Ash Center Student Speaker Series
Clio Dintilhac (MPP/ID ’16), Amri Ilmma (MPP/ID ’16 and HKS Indonesia Program Student Fellow), and Dian Kusuma (DSc candidate, HSPH, and HKS Indonesia Program Fellow)
Lunch will be provided.
About the Event Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) are a popular yet sometimes controversial public policy approach to improving social welfare by rewarding healthy and productive behaviors with money. We have been sending Harvard students to Indonesia to study CCTs for a number of years – come learn the real story from HKS Indonesia Program Fellow Dian Kusuma (DSc candidate, HSPH) and HKS MPA/ID students Clio Dintilhac and Amri Ilmma. Clio and Amri’s recent winter SYPA research on the key political and administrative challenges faced by CCTs focused on increasing take up rates among current beneficiaries and expanding the program in terms of both coverage and benefits. Dian’s ongoing research analyzes conditional cash transfers as a key component of a sustainable national health insurance system. The speakers will share their work studying the impact of CCTs on health and education outcomes in Indonesia, addressing questions such as: How do CCTs work? Wherein lies their greatest potential?... Read more about Can Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Health and Education Outcomes on a Large Scale?
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