Community Speaker Series

  • 2017 Feb 24

    Standing for Election: Perspectives on Public Service

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge MA 02138

    Ash Center Student Speaker Series

    This week, in observance of HKS Public Service Week, join Ash Center Ford Foundation Mason Fellows Kinga Tshering of Bhutan and David Razu Aznar or Mexico for a discussion of each of their past careers in public service. Both students have served in elected office, Kinga as a Member of Parliament in Bhutan's National Assembly, and David in Mexico City's Legislative Assembly.

     

    Speakers:

    Kinga Tshering, MC-Mason '17
    David Razu Aznar, MC-Mason '17...

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  • 2017 Feb 17

    Innovations in Criminal Justice

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North

    Ash Center Student Speaker Series

    The Ash Center's Student Speaker Series returns this week, with a dive into the cutting edge of criminal justice policy. We'll hear from three students whose Policy Analysis Exercise research focused on new and fascinating methods in the field of criminal justice.

    Duwain Pinder and Francesca Iofredda, both dual-degree MPP/MBA '17 students, focused on the city of New Orleans, LA as their PAE client, introducing a performance management...

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  • 2016 Nov 18

    Inside the Innovation Field Lab: Catalysts for Change

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge MA 02138

    Ash Center Student Speaker Series

    The Innovation Field Lab — a spring course and field project — immerses student teams in real-world challenges. Led by Professor Jorrit de Jong, HKS Lecturer in Public Policy and Faculty Director of Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership...

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  • 2016 Nov 04

    Election Preview: What to Watch for on November 8th

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge MA 02138

    Ash Center Student Speaker Series

    Just four days out from the election, join Teresa Acuña, the Roy and Lila Ash student fellow at the Ash Center and a longtime Democratic campaign operative, legislative aide, and progressive advocate, as well as  Andrew McClure, a co-chair of the HKS Republican Caucus, MPA2 representative in the HKS student government, former Marco Rubio campaign staffer, and a United States Marine. Devin Romanul, Associate Director for the Project on Municipal Innovation, will moderate an election preview, where we’ll discuss the...

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  • 2016 Oct 28

    Health Care Policy from Albany to Beijing

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge MA 02138

    Ash Center Student Speaker Series

    Join two Ash Center fellows working on the challenges and opportunities of health care policy, in two very different contexts.

    Jane Bai (MPP '16) is currently a Research Fellow at the Ash Center, continuing work she started in her PAE. Her research focuses on a value based purchasing transition project with the China Medical Board. She will be joined by Grace Oh (MPP '17), who as an Ash Center Summer Fellow in Innovation spent two months in Albany, NY, working on NY State's Medicaid Redesign project, a 2015 Innovations in...

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  • 2016 Oct 21

    Finance for Good

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge MA 02138

    Ash Center Student Speaker Series

    Join two members of the Ash Center community for a discussion of green financing in China. Arthur Holcombe, former Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) from 1992-1998 in China and the Founder of the Poverty Alleviation Fund, will briefly describe China's small loans policies as they pertain to poor rural households, then share the microfinance policies of his organization and efforts to help promote environmental and energy resources sustainability in poor villages of Tibet.

    Tracy...

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  • 2016 Oct 14

    Collaborative Approaches to Civic Innovation

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge MA 02138

    Ash Center Student Speaker Series

    Speakers:

    Glendean Hamilton, MPP '17
    Maurits Waardenburg, MPP '16

    About the Series

    The Ash Center Student Speaker Series highlights and explores the implications and lessons learned from the research projects or applied learning experiences of Harvard University students supported by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. Each week, we invite two students to offer brief remarks on their work, or a response to one...

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  • 2016 Oct 07

    Democracy Entrepreneurship: Hands-on with Participatory Innovation

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge MA 02138

    Ash Center Student Speaker Series

    Hear from two Ash Center Summer Fellows in Innovation on their experience working on participatory democratic innovations: the Citizen's Initiative Review in Massachusetts, and Participatory Budgeting in New York City. Each of these innovations aim to make democracy work better for everyone, but are advocated for and marketed by independent...

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  • 2016 Sep 23

    Why Data Matter to Cities

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge MA 02138

    Ash Center Student Speaker Series

    Join Sean Alaback and George Simpson for a discussion on the importance of data to city governments. Both George and Sean were 2016 Ash Center Summer Fellows in Innovation, and worked on civic data projects at two very different scales. George, who worked in the Mayor’s office in Los Angeles, CA, worked between the Chief Data Officer and the Communications department, helping to craft and disseminate the City’s messaging around their data initiatives. Sean, as part of the Innovation Field Lab, developed a data tool called...

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  • 2016 Sep 16

    Media, Technology, and Civic Engagement

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge MA 02138

    Ash Center Student Speaker Series

    In the first Student Speaker Series event of the year, Glynis Startz and Cecily Tyler will discuss the role civic engagement has played in their work. Through two very different mediums—Glynis as an Ash Center Summer Fellow working on in-person and online engagement and outreach as part of a smart cities project in Chicago, and Cecily as a filmmaker using crowdsourced documentary film as a tool to empower communities to tell their own stories—both women have explored new and innovative ways to inspire people to take ownership over...

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