124 Mt Auburn Street, South Lobby, Suite 160S, Room 105
Join Ash Center fellows Miles Rapoport and Tova Wang for a five-part study group examining various aspects of the burgeoning democracy reform movement sweeping through states across the country. Session 1 is entitled "Youth Activism, Youth Voting: Is This its Year?" Special guests include Dawn Boudwin...
Join us for a discussion with Dana R. Fisher, Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Program for Society and the Environment at the University of Maryland, author of American Resistance: From the Women’s March to the Blue Wave. Marshall Ganz, Rita E. Hauser Senior Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing, and Civil Society, will moderate.
124 Mt Auburn Street, South Lobby, Suite 160S, Room 105
Join Ash Center Democracy Fellows Johnnie Lotesta and Gali Racabi for the first session of their spring semester study group on the struggles and successes of the U.S. labor movement. Labor unions have played an important role in incorporating economically marginalized groups into the American working class, including, in particular cases, immigrant communities, people of color, and multiple classes of precarious workers. This session will explore past and present efforts to organize workers on the economic, social, and legal margins of the American organized labor movement - farm...
124 Mt Auburn Street, South Lobby, Suite 160S, Room 105
Join Ash Center fellows Miles Rapoport and Tova Wang for a five-part study group examining various aspects of the burgeoning democracy reform movement sweeping through states across the country. Session 2 is entitled "Voter Suppression in 2020: What to Expect, Who is Fighting Back?" Lunch will be served. Seating preference will be given to students. No preregistration or RSVP is necessary.
Throughout the semester, leading advocates, organizers and scholars on voting rights, social movements, and structural election reform will share their unique...
Ash Center Conference Room 226, 124 Mt Auburn Street, Suite 200 North
Join Ash Center Democracy Fellow and Academic Director NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress Victoria Alsina for the first session of her three-part study group on improving representation in cities. This first session will discuss "city-challenges" designed booster open innovation at the local level. Participants will have a chance to examine the Mexican Multi-City Challenge being developed in partnership with NYU GovLab, USAID-Trust for the Americas, and the Tinker Foundation. Lunch will be served.
Seating preference will be given to students. No pre-...
124 Mt Auburn Street, South Lobby, Suite 160S, Room 105
Join Ash Center fellows Miles Rapoport and Tova Wang for a five-part study group examining various aspects of the burgeoning democracy reform movement sweeping through states across the country. Session 3 is entitled "If You Only Knew: The Power of State and Local Election Officials." Lunch will be served. Seating preference will be given to students. No preregistration or RSVP is necessary.
Throughout the semester, leading advocates, organizers and scholars on voting rights, social movements, and structural election reform will share their unique...
124 Mt Auburn Street, South Lobby, Suite 160S, Room 105
Join Ash Center Democracy Fellows Johnnie Lotesta and Gali Racabi for the second session of their spring semester 2020 study group on the struggles and successes of the U.S. labor movement. Popular and scholarly attention to the American labor movement is often bifurcated between two spheres of action: shop floor negotiations and the ivory halls of federal legislative and legal institutions. This second session explores a third, often under-appreciated sphere of labor action - civil society. The study group will examine the American labor movement as a network of organizations and...
Join Ash Center Technology and Democracy Fellow Eric Wilson to develop your digital toolkit. This is a hands-on workshop; participants are expected to arrive ready to learn and practice a new skill.
The Ash Center's Technology and Democracy Workshop Series are hands-on, co-curricular events designed to help HKS and other students at Harvard develop real-world technology skills. Led by a network of technology practitioners,...
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Floor 2, Suite 200N
Join us for a discussion with Larry Diamond, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Tarek Masoud, Professor of Public Policy and the Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations at Harvard Kennedy School, will moderate.
About the Democracy in Hard Places Initiative
This discussion is part of the Ash Center's Democracy in Hard Places Initiative, a program directed by ...
124 Mt Auburn Street, South Lobby, Suite 160S, Room 105
Join Ash Center fellows Miles Rapoport and Tova Wang for a five-part study group examining various aspects of the burgeoning democracy reform movement sweeping through states across the country. Session 4 is entitled "Voting Rights Restoration: At the Intersection of Criminal Justice and Democracy." Lunch will be served. Seating preference will be given to students. No preregistration or RSVP is necessary.
Throughout the semester, leading advocates, organizers and scholars on voting rights, social movements, and structural election reform will share their...
