Podcast
Wait, Wait — What Happened?
Co-hosts Archon Fung and Stephen Richer look back at the last five months of headlines as they celebrate the twentieth episode of Terms of Engagement.
News and Analysis
Read the latest news, commentary, and analysis from the Ash Center.
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Feature
A New Story for Nigeria
Recent Kennedy School Graduate Uche Pedro is leveraging her popular media brand to increase voter participation and advocate for social justice issues in Nigeria.
Q+A
How are businesses encouraging civic engagement in 2020?
The Ash Center sat down with Ashley Spillane MC/MPA 2018, president of social impact consulting firm Impactual, and Sofia Gross, Ash Center Technology and Democracy Fellow 2018-19, public policy manager at Snap, Inc.; authors of Civic Responsibility: The Power of Companies to Increase Voter Turnout, to discuss how organizations are supporting voter participation this fall.
Video
[Book Talk] Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? with Prof. Alex Keyssar
In this discussion, Prof. Alex Keyssar was joined by Prof. Edward Foley and Tova Wang to discuss his new book, why the founders settled on such an institution, its persistence over the hundreds of years since, and current efforts to preserve, circumvent, or abolish it.
Video
Rising: AAPI Engagement and the 2020 Elections
The Ash Center hosted a conversation with leading practitioners in the field on the importance and state of current efforts to engage AAPI voters, AAPIs’ role and connection to the Black Lives Matter movement, and the stakes of the upcoming election.
Feature
Valerie Jarrett on the value of a vote + reaching Gen-Z
Board Chair of When We All Vote Valerie Jarret discusses voter engagement at a virtual Harvard Votes Challenge event on National Voter Registration Day
Video
A Conversation with Valerie Jarrett on National Voter Registration Day
The Harvard Votes Challenge celebrateed National Voter Registration Day with Valerie Jarrett, businesswoman, senior advisor to President Barack Obama, a board member at When We All Vote, and advocate for equality & justice.
Video
Insights from Congressional and Tribal Leaders: Coronavirus Relief for American Indian Tribal Govt
Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center and the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development hosted a diverse panel of Congressional and tribal leaders to look ahead and discuss how Congress might come together on a bipartisan basis to enhance support for Indian Country’s pandemic recovery efforts.
Video
Election 2020: What Keeps You Up at Night?
The Ash Center hosted a discussion with three leading U.S. election practitioners – one litigator, one election official, and one national grassroots organizing leader – as we asked each of them a series of questions about their greatest fears around the voting process, their work to achieve a fully inclusive and well-administered election, and their ideas for the future of U.S. democracy.
Communique Magazine
Communiqué Fall 2020, Volume 25
This issue, our first-ever digital-only magazine, explores how the Ash Center has responded to both the COVID-19 pandemic and consequential presidential election. We feature the democracy programs work on increasing voter participation and a report recommending universal civic duty voting. We highlight Director Tony Saich’s latest book on a Dutch Communist named Henk Sneevliet and his role in sparking the communist revolution in China, and we also detail the stories of Ash Center students, alumni and fellows around the globe.