2019

2019 Feb 08

Study Group with Former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter

12:00pm to 1:15pm

Location: 

Wexner 434 A/B, Harvard Kennedy School

Join Former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter for the first session of a three-part spring semester 2019 study group on issues facing America’s cities. Nutter will draw on his time as a two-term mayor of Philadelphia and former member of the Philadelphia City Council to discuss how cities are grappling with issues related to corruption and ethics, criminal justice reform, economic development, and other issues. Email ...

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City Streets

From Street to Spreadsheet

January 17, 2019

In two recently released papers, a pair of scholars affiliated with Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation take a close look at how urban leaders are grappling with the quick pace of technological and regulatory change in America’s cities today. In Reforming Mobility Management: Rethinking the Regulatory Framework, Stephen Goldsmith, the Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of Government at Harvard Kennedy School, lays out a new model for how...

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City Street

Ash Paper Proposes New Model for Rideshare Regulation in Cities

January 17, 2019

Cambridge, MA – The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation today published a report by Stephen Goldsmith, the Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of Government at Harvard Kennedy School, on reforming ridesharing regulations in urban areas. In his paper, Reforming Mobility Management: Rethinking the Regulatory Framework, Goldsmith, who also serves as the Director of the Innovations in American Government Program at the Ash Center, calls on cities to adopt a “light touch”...

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2019 Feb 04

Bloomberg Harvard Summer Fellowship Information Session at Harvard Business School

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Hawes Hall 101, Harvard Business School

Do you want to help cities design, develop, and implement innovative approaches and practices and have an impact at the local level? Are you interested in a career in city government? Attend this information session to learn more about multiple summer fellowship opportunities in participating U.S. cities with the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative.

About the Fellowship

Harvard graduate students will be competitively selected for...

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2019 Jan 30

Bloomberg Harvard Summer Fellowship Information Session at Harvard Kennedy School

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Rubenstein 414, David Ellwood Democracy Lab, Harvard Kennedy School

Do you want to help cities design, develop, and implement innovative approaches and practices and have an impact at the local level? Are you interested in a career in city government? Attend this information session to learn more about multiple summer fellowship opportunities in participating cities with the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative.... Read more about Bloomberg Harvard Summer Fellowship Information Session at Harvard Kennedy School

2019 Feb 12

Study Group: Democracy Reform

12:00pm to 1:15pm

Location: 

124 Mt Auburn Street, Suite 200N, Room 226

Join us for the inaugural session of the Democracy Reform: Through the Practitioner’s Lens study group with Miles Rapoport. This first session will be a conversation with Rapoport on whether democracy reform's time has come in the United States. This study group is open to the Harvard and broader Boston-area university community and requires no prior registration or application. Lunch will be served. 

About the Study Group

Join Miles Rapoport, Senior Practice Fellow in American Democracy, for a four-part study group which...

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2019 Feb 26

Film Screening – Isaac Pope: The Spirit of an American Century

5:30pm to 8:30pm

Location: 

434 AB, Wexner Building, Fourth Floor, Harvard Kennedy School
Please join the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation for a film screening of, “Isaac Pope: The Spirit of an American Century.... Read more about Film Screening – Isaac Pope: The Spirit of an American Century
2019 Feb 04

2019 John T. Dunlop Memorial Forum feat. Congressman Joe Kennedy III

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Wasserstein Hall, Room 2036, Milstein East ABC, Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

Join us and the Harvard Law School Labor & Worklife Program for the 2019 John T. Dunlop Forum featuring Congressman Joe Kennedy III.  Congressman Kennedy will discuss his recent call for “moral capitalism” and outline how he believes a new Congress can recalibrate our country’s economy back towards American workers.

This event is at capacity. A live stream of the event will be available here. 

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2019 Mar 01

Ash Community Speaker Series: Why Local Democracy Still Matters for Urban Schools

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Floor 2, Suite 200N

Join Ash Center Visting Democracy Fellow Jonathan Collins, Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Professor of Political Science and Education at Brown University, in discussion about the way that people interact with their municipal governments and their local school boards.  Collins will explore how policies and outcomes produced by school boards both begin with the extent to which school boards establish a culture of deliberation with the public - a culture that can be measured.  He will also illustrate how the racial context of...

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2019 May 03

Study Group: Reimagining Civic Discourse on Social Media

4:15pm to 6:15pm

Location: 

Harvard Kennedy School

The application for this study group has closed. 

Students and fellows at Harvard and surrounding universities are invited to apply for a spring semester study group with Ash Center Fellow Deepti Doshi, Director of Community Partnerships at Facebook, MC/MPA '12; and Mo Safdari, former Program Manager for Election Integrity at Facebook, MBA/MPP. 

Building constructive civic discourse on social media is an urgent challenge. This study group will take you behind the scenes to...

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