Harvard Center Shanghai, 5/F, Shanghai IFC-HSBC Building, 8 Century Avenue, Pudong, Shanghai 200120, China
You're invited to join us for two public discussions held in conjunction with the Ash Center's China Philanthropy Conference. First, a practioners roundtable conversation and second, a public forum titled, "The Future of Giving & Next Generation Philanthropy in China."
The schedule will be as follows:
2-3:30 - Practioners Roundtable
3:30-4:00 - Break
4:00-5:30 - Public Forum: The Future of Giving and Next Generation Philanthropy
David Huereca Hawthorne, MPP ’19 and Alyssa Davis, MPP ’19 will discuss their work to streamline homeless services in Oakland, CA and encourage equitable growth in Grand Rapids, MI. Tessa Kaneene, Program Manager for the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, will moderate.
Lunch will be served.
The Ash Community Speaker Series features discussions with students, faculty, fellows, and alumni whose research or other academic work is...
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Floor 2, Suite 200N
Join authors Maya Sen, Associate Professor of Public Policy, HKS, and Matt Blackwell, Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard, in discussion about their recent book, Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics. Orlando Patterson, John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Harvard, will moderate.
Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics
Join Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney and Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, for a discussion about the state of voting rights, including the restoration of voting rights for felons.
Refreshments will be served. This event is co-sponsored by the Black Student Union at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Starr Auditorium, B-200, Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School
Please join us for a career panel on domestic and international crisis management, featuring HKS mid-career students with professional experience in humanitarian aid, emergency management, and military operations. Light refreshments will be served.... Read more about Crisis Management Career Panel
Join Ash Center Technology and Democracy Fellows to develop your digital toolkit. This is a hands-on workshop; participants are expected to arrive ready to learn and practice a new skill.
In this session, participants will step into the shoes of a team member at a social media giant to learn the challenges that Trust and Safety, Legal, and Engineering teams face in balancing users’ safety with their right to freedom of expression. In becoming a Trust and Safety agent, participants will be tasked with examining social media content, determining what content violates the platform’s Community Guidelines and recommending how the content should be treated.... Read more about Tech & Democracy Workshop -- User Safety vs. Freedom of Expression: Can social media platforms have both?
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A persistent and deeply troubling problem of American democracy is low voter participation. The US ranks 28th out 35 OECD countries in voting turnout--55 percent of voting age population in 2016. On the presumption that this is unacceptable, and we want the widest possible participation in American democracy, what would it take to seriously move the needle on this issue, to have 80 percent of Americans voting? What policies could really work? What cultural shifts do we need to make? How can new technologies and platforms be best utilized? How can young people become a new civic generation?... Read more about HUBWeek -- Making Democracy Count: Changing U.S. Voting Culture
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Floor 2, Room 226
Join Miles Rapoport, Senior Practice Fellow in American Democracy, for the third session of a study group titled, "Elections 2018 Through the Practitioner’s Lens."
Elections 2018 Through the Practitioner’s Lens
The 2018 elections will not just be a question of who wins and who loses; they will be a stress test of America’s democratic processes. Issues of election safety, voting access, the new wild west of campaign finance and redistricting will have major impact for the future. This Study Group will feature experienced practitioners--...
