HARVARD + PERFORMANCE SPECIALISTS KENNEDY PARTNERS FOR GROWTH SCHOOL NATION BUILDING magazine summer 2018

SEEKING JUSTICE

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JOHN KASICH, THE REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR OF OHIO and a 2016 presidential contender, was emphatically not wonky when he spoke to the Harvard Kennedy School graduating class on Class Day in May. “This is not a public policy speech,” he told the crowd. Instead, Kasich focused on the importance of a moral compass in public life and of looking to oneself—not to politicians or celebrities—for change. “You can change the way the world turns on its axis,” Kasich said. “You can, you will, and you must.” MARTHA STEWART MARTHA summersummer 2018 2018 | harvard | harvard kennedy kennedy school school 1 1

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IN THE HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL MAGAZINE, we showcase the Kennedy School’s alumni, faculty, Associate ean or staff, and students who are making signifi cant progress in addressing public problems. We are very Communications and ulic Aairs proud of the many members of the Kennedy School community who are working across the world— Thoko Moyo from Uganda to South Korea to Mexico—but in this issue we focus special attention on what members Editor of our community are doing in American cities and states. Robert O’Neill Having spent much of my career as an economist in Washington, D.C., I know that good enior irector o Alumni elations policymaking by the U.S. government is crucial, and I am pleased that many of our alumni are Amy Davies MC/MPA 2010 improving public policy and public leadership in Washington. I am just as pleased, though, that they esiners are making people’s lives better through their work in city halls, state governments, nonprofi ts, and Janet Friskey private organizations across the country. Delane Meadows For example, Bryan Stevenson md 1985 is the driving Contriutin Writers Issac Bailey force behind the new National Memorial for Peace and Ethel Branch mpp/jd 2008 Nora Delaney Justice (and the Legacy Museum) in Montgomery, Alabama. is attorney general for the Katie Gibson He has run the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery for Mari Megias Navajo Nation more than two decades, fi ghting against racial bias in the rinter criminal justice system. In Arizona, Ethel Branch md Lane Press MURPHY | KRISTIN NEWS DESERET 2008 serves as the attorney general of the Navajo Nation, Harvard Kennedy School Magazine with responsibilities ranging from enhancing public safety is published two times a year to fostering voting rights legislation. Andrew Deye mcma by John F. Kennedy School of FEATURE STORIES 2015 works with JobsOhio, a nonprofi t organization that helps Government create jobs and spur economic growth in that state. And Offi ce of Communications Bryan Stevenson mpp/jd 1985, the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, Seth Flaxman m 2010 and Kathryn Peters m 2010 lead and Public Affairs 12 Seeking Justice Democracy Works, an organization that makes it easier for 79 John F. Kennedy Street is an indefatigable defender of the powerless. Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 voters to cast their ballots. These individuals demonstrate Phone: 617-495-1442 The Government Performance Lab is on a mission to make just a few of the many ways our alumni are creating positive 18 Performance Specialists E-mail: [email protected] government work better. change: fi ghting for social justice, improving public services, Copyright ©2018 by the President creating economic opportunity, and enhancing democratic and Fellows of Harvard College. Part lawyer, part policymaker, Ethel Branch mpp/jd 2008 works to build the Navajo Nation. participation. All rights reserved. 22 Nation Building Our faculty, staff, and students are also working with aaine Advisory Board 26 Leading by Example In El Paso, Omar Yanar mpp 2010 is building a school that aims to take kids from state and local leaders across the United States. For example, Joe Bergantino mcma 1985 hopelessness to college. you will read in this issue about the Government Performance Lab, which is led by Professor Jeffrey Phil Cronin m 1996 Liebman and employs many recent Kennedy School graduates. The lab has partnered with people Tiziana Dearing m 2000 Melodie Jackson mcma 2001 28 Partners for Growth In Ohio, Andrew Deye mc/mpa 2015 straddles the public and private sectors in city halls and statehouses in more than half the U.S. states so far, helping those governments David King, faculty to bring jobs back to the state. improve the delivery of public services. Chris Olver m 2012 In these pages we also recognize Drew Faust, who has stepped down after leading Harvard as Craig Sandler mcma 2000 32 Ecosystem of Democracy Seth Flaxman and Kathryn Peters, both mpp 2010, are making voting easier. president for 11 years. The Kennedy School has benefi ted a great deal from her leadership. At the Janice Saragoni mcma 1989 same time, we proudly congratulate our new president, Larry Bacow md 1, hd 18the Jeffrey Seglin, faculty fi rst Kennedy School graduate to lead the University. In addition, we introduce the School’s fi rst Ken Shulman mcma 2004 DEPARTMENTS associate dean for diversity, inclusion, and belonging, Robbin Chapman. I and others at the School Steven Singer mcma 1986 Scott Talan mcma 2002 4 Ideas Domestic Footprint 9 Campus Robbin Chapman 38 Alumni voices are committed to building an increasingly welcoming and inclusive hks community, and Robbin will Donald Tighe mcma 1999 Classnotes | Mary Kurkjian play an invaluable role in this work. 6 Faculty Marie Danziger | 34 Bully pulpit Parkland students mpp 1978 | hks Alumni Network of Lant Pritchett | Robert Putnam | | Mike Duggan | Dahlia Lithwick | the United Arab Emirates | Yasmin Dean Doug Elmendorf Jane Mansbridge Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete | and more Padamsee Forbes mc/mpa 2008 | Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy Dina Buchbinder mpp 2016 August 8 Alumni YuKang Choi mpp 2007 | 36 In print Deep Roots | Building Agnes Igoye mc/mpa 2017 State Capability | Straight Talk 62 Ways and means on Trade | Professionalizing This magazine is printed on 100 percent The capital campaign concludes postconsumer waste paper (text) and Leadership | Can We Solve the 30 percent postconsumer waste paper Cover photo of Bryan Stevenson Migration Crisis? 64 Exit poll

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2 HKSmag_su18_IFC2-11_Final_R2.indd 2 8/8/18 5:51 PM 2 HKSmag_su18_IFC2-11_Final_R2.indd 3 8/8/18 5:51 PM IDEAS In April, when election offi cials and SEATTLE legislators from nearly a dozen western The GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE LAB states gathered at the National is using results-driven contracting to Conference of State Legislatures meeting The General Motors assembly reorient local governments’ deployment on Election Security in Cheyenne, plant in Moraine closed in 2008. of resources. In Seattle, the lab used Wyoming, a team from the DEFENDING More than 2,400 jobs were lost. this approach to help the city address a Using data mapping, offi cials in South DIGITAL DEMOCRACY PROJECT (D3P) But Andre eye mc/mpa 21, growing homelessness crisis. Between Bend found that low-income families were was there. D3P, an initiative of the Belfer managing director of strategy at 2005 and 2016, Seattle’s budget for less likely to take advantage of mortgage Center for Science and International Jobs Ohio, a private nonprofi t homeless services increased by nearly tax exemptions and used the insights of Affairs under the direction of the center’s charged with bringing investment 75 percent to $50 million, yet behavioral experts to help its residents co-director, Eric Rosenbach—along with and jobs to the state, helped homelessness continued to rise at pursue the tax breaks they were entitled the former campaign managers for Hillary see a new path forward for the an average rate of 13 percent per year to. The program was one of several across Clinton and Mitt Romney—is identifying town and the area. The nonprofi t from 2011 to 2016. The Government the country in which behavioral experts and recommending strategies, tools, redeveloped the facility, which Performance Lab helped the city from hks teamed up with the A and technologies to protect democratic became a production plant for a rework homeless service contracts, IAI EC to help cities take processes and systems from cyberattacks. Chinese glass manufacturer. The moving from a system that measured advantage of newly gleaned insights into D3P has now engaged with 44 of the 50 Fuyao Glass facility now employs activities—such as beds occupied or how people make decisions. U.S. states pre-midterm elections. 2,000 people, one of many showers administered—to a core set of OMING SOUT BEND INDIANA success stories around the state. metrics related to the outcomes the city See story page 28 cared most about—including whether individuals were progressing to stable MORAINE OIO housing situations. In 2017, Seattle BALTIMORE announced that it would use the new Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh framework in a procurement of homeless is one of 55 mayors from major service contracts with a total value of cities who have taken part in $30 million. See story page 18 LOUISILLE ENTU the BBE AA A nationwide peer network of city chief data CI EAEI IIIAIE, offi cers, the CIIC AAIC EW, is a program designed to bring REA | The Kennedy School is rightly INDO RO ARIONA helping cities like Louisville use data to make mayors and their top aides known as the most international of Harvard’s government more transparent and more together to learn from experts Attorney General of the Navajo responsive. The network is part of Data-Smart and from one another. graduate schools, with more than 90 countries Nation, Ethel Branch mpp/jd City Solutions, a program housed at the Ash represented in a typical graduating class. So 2008 oversees legal affairs for Center and run by Professor Stephen Goldsmith, an area roughly the size of West it’s almost easy to look past the School’s deep a city innovation specialist and the former mayor Virginia. With a staff of 88 and of Indianapolis. and broad domestic footprint. Not just in the limited resources, she innovates corridors of D.C., boardrooms of New York, constantly. An annual Public and start-ups of San Francisco, but all across Safety Summit she launched brought together offi cials to the country. Not only in federal agencies and help coordinate efforts on MONTGOMER ALABAMA state governments, but also in nonprofi ts problems such as violent crime, Bryan tevenson mpp/jd 18 has dedicated his life to and private ventures. Through the work of substance abuse, and suicide. See story page 22 representing the powerless in degree program graduates and executive court through his organization, education participants, through the power of the Equal Justice Initiative. But he realizes the importance of the ideas generated here, or through innovative changing the whole narrative collaborations, the School is working actively on race and justice in the to make a difference across the country. United States. With the National Memorial for Peace A few examples are included on this spread. and Justice, dedicated to the victims of lynching, Stevenson To see more, go to our interactive map at has helped to do just that. hks.harvard.edu/us-impact See story page 12

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A Lasting Legacy Students graduate, of course, and staff and faculty move on as the School continually renews and reinvents itself. But some departures leave a larger than usual hole. This year, three faculty members who have helped shape the School’s path in important ways bade farewell: Marie Danziger, lecturer in public policy; Lant Pritchett, professor of the practice of international development; and Robert Putnam, the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy.

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As the Kennedy School community gathered in December to celebrate the opening of its transformed campus, Harvard President DRE AT reminded all those in attendance of the importance of the School’s mission. “At a time when reasoned public policy has never mattered more,” Faust said, “we are here to mark a new era for a School that champions reasoned debate and informed governing.” Faust retired in July. But during her 11-year tenure, she was a constant champion for the Kennedy School and its values. She saw the School as crucial to the University’s goal of reaching across sectors and disciplines. She embraced sustainability, diversity, and the revitalization of democracy, leading by example. And above all, she embodied the School’s spirit of public leadership and service. Faust had an “unshakeable conviction that Harvard can and must help to make a better world for everyone,” Dean Doug For almost 20 years, MARIE DANZIGER led the Harvard Kennedy An economist by training, LANT PRITCHETT, spent 15 years RERT PTNAM fi rst joined the faculty at Harvard in 1979. He is Elmendorf said. “We are indebted to her for her remarkable School Communications Program, which she was also on the frontlines of international development at the World a former dean of the Kennedy School, a member of the National leadership.” instrumental in developing. The program recognized the vital Bank before joining the Kennedy School in 2000. Pritchett Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the British Academy, and a The spirit of the Kennedy School will continue to infl uence importance of clearly communicating policy and dedicated was instrumental in shaping the development of the mpa/id past president of the American Political Science Association. the University’s leadership. Faust was succeeded by itself to teaching that skill to students. Under Danziger’s program, teaching in it from its inception. In addition to serving One of the world’s most distinguished political scientists, he leadership, it grew to offer communications workshops and a as a professor of the practice of international development, received the 2006 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science, the LARENCE AC mpp/jd phd . A former president range of courses on policy writing. Danziger, with David Gergen, he was a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development (a most prestigious award in the fi eld, and the 2012 National of Tufts and chancellor of mit, Bacow was most also developed the popular Arts of Communication course. Over nonproft think tank), a co-editor of the Journal of Development Humanities Medal, the nation’s highest honor for contributions recently Hauser Leader-in-Residence at hks’s her long and distinguished career, Danziger taught management Economics, and a consultant for Google.org. In 2017, he to the humanities. But beyond the honors and titles, Putnam Center for Public Leadership. He will be the communication at mit’s Sloan School of Management, policy published two books: Building State Capability, co-authored is rightly recognized for the remarkable infl uence of his fi rst Kennedy School graduate to lead the analysis and persuasion at Radcliffe, and communications with hks colleagues Matt Andrews and Michael Woolcock, ideas about the bonds that hold a society and a body politic University, and in his fi rst remarks after he and cross-cultural studies at the Harvard Graduate School of and Deals and Development: The Political Dynamics of Growth together—ideas that have seeped into our national political was announced as president, it showed. Education, Boston University, the University of Sydney, the Episodes, which he co-edited with Kunal Sen and Eric Werker. In conversation over the past few decades. He has written or “What we can’t afford is to have good people University of Geneva, and the Instituto Chileno-Norteamericano. addition, he has authored or co-authored more than 50 papers co-authored a number of books, including the best-selling not get involved,” Bacow said. “We are responsible for making She also served as assistant dean for academic support at mit, published in refereed journals, as book chapters, or as articles. Boling lone The Collapse and Revival of erican the world a better place.” as assistant to the president at Bentley University, and as a — Counity; Making Deocracy Work Civic Traditions in — journalist and coeditor of a bilingual newsmagazine in Modern taly; ur ids The erican Drea in Crisis; and Munich, Germany. erican race o Religion Divides and nites s.

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CAMPUS FACULTY Come As Who You Are Enemies Can Negotiate

EARLY ON IN HER CAREER as an engineer, ROBBIN CHAPMAN was using artificial intelligence to design a computer system that could recognize American Sign Language. She knew it wasn’t necessary to make the system read and recognize every single complex movement. Just making it work the way our brains do—taking in a few key points of information—she could teach the system how to understand its task, learn, and self-organize. It’s an approach that has guided her successfully in her current career as an expert on THE GRIDLOCKED U.S. CONGRESS could be described as a diversity and inclusion. case study in how not to run government. One important First at mit, where she earned a master’s reason: the difficulty lawmakers have in talking to one and a phd in computer science and engineering, another. JANE MANSBRIDGE, Adams Professor of Political and later at Wellesley, where she headed the Leadership and Democratic Values and the 2018 winner of College’s successful diversity and inclusion the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science, is taking a closer look under the hood of Capitol Hill and other legislative YuKang Choi mpp 2007 efforts, Chapman has transferred the insights bodies in the United States to see what happened to the got help when he gleaned from building computer learning systems art of legislative negotiation and how it can be revived or needed it. Now he is to the broader learning environment, helping improved. paying forward. transform them into places that valued diversity. In April, she became hks’s first associate dean of diversity, inclusion, and belonging. With all the issues facing our political system, why look at how legislators She has already begun working on specific negotiate with one another? ALUMNI tasks—areas of particular importance to hks— We face a level of polarization not seen since the last Gilded Age. There are three major causes. such as faculty and student recruitment. But Like Others Cultivated Me First, after the Civil Rights Act in 1964 southern conservative Democrats gradually joined the more important, Chapman is studying the School Republican Party, making it more socially conservative and both parties more homogeneous. intently, looking at its norms, its culture, and what Second, in contrast to the Democratic Party hegemony in Congress from 1932 to 1980, the parties she describes as its essence—that one quality YUKANG CHOI mpp 2007 says thinking about the future: There I couldn’t always pay my tuition. translate North Korean to South are now competitive—giving any minority party incentives to block the majority’s legislation and common to everyone who comes to learn at hks. his life was transformed by the are no official statistics about Some of my professors helped me Korean and also Chinese, and even destroy its members’ reputations. Third, the U-curve of economic inequality in the country “I want to know what that is so that I can promote support of a few people who North Korea, but we estimate by buying my books or reading we offer an after-school English tracks the curve of polarization: Inequality generates more individual donors’ money in politics; inclusion without disrupting it,” Chapman says. helped him make it through there are about 3.5 million materials. Without the support of program so that they can learn those donors tend to prefer more-extreme candidates; and the resulting polarization blocks Her main focus will be on the idea of university when times were school-age students. If the two others, I don’t think I could have the languages and adapt. attempts to remediate inequality. Because these underlying causes of polarization are not likely to belonging—the idea that you can come as tough. What if he hadn’t been countries unify, how do we made it to hks. That experience For low-income South Korean change soon, we need to face that fact and do what we can to deal with it. Enemies can negotiate. who you are and you will be valued by the supported like that? And what absorb them? Many of these and support—that one touch—is students, we have an after- Their very differences in preferences can provide the opportunity for a deal. community—and she plans to work methodically if everybody was? Inspired by children might be left behind, where “Dream Touch” came from. school program that provides with every part of the School to make sure that it his time at the Kennedy School, traumatized, or malnourished. I was the first one accepted to tutoring. Most students in South Aren’t lawmakers already experts at negotiation? If not, what mistakes do they make?

MARTHA STEWART MARTHA can understand the task, learn, and self-organize. YuKang founded Dream Touch What can we do to help them Harvard from my college, and Korea have some sort of tutoring, New legislators are not usually already experts at negotiation. Nor are the congressional staffs, For All (dtfa) in his native South learn a new language and I decided I wanted to cultivate so not having that advantage who play key roles in formulating legislation. The mistakes of both legislators and staff members Korea to help provide education culture? Dream Touch For All and grow the next generation, as creates a real education gap. Our tend to be the standard mistakes in any kind of negotiation—for example, not building up to underprivileged children. is helping to address this others cultivated me. intensive program offers college sufficient trust so that each side shares enough information to build creative, “win-win” deals. transition. admissions counseling and life What is Dream Touch For All? What are some of dtfa’s coaching to help these students So what can be improved? It is based on the Teach for What made you want to make signature offerings? succeed. America model, which I learned an impact in education? The languages of North Korea The good thing is that negotiation can be taught. The negotiation courses at the Kennedy School about while studying at Harvard My father was killed in an and South Korea are now marked What’s next for you and dtfa? are among the most popular courses we offer. We are now teaching congressional staffers, state Kennedy School, though dtfa automobile accident when I was by a 50 percent difference in Dream Touch For All’s motto is legislators, and state legislative staffers how to negotiate better (the states are increasingly evolved into its own concept. 19. Overnight, my family dynamic vocabulary, since Korea has been “A great education for every polarized too). It is my way of making South changed and I felt the burden divided for nearly 70 years. So child.” I envision a Korea where Korea a better country through of financial pressure. I when North Korean refugees all children can receive quality What programs are you currently involved in and what do you hope they will lead to? exceptional education. was lucky to be accepted to come to South Korea—right now, education regardless of their With a grant from the Hewlett Foundation, we have developed and are developing cases and dtfa is cultivating the next Handong Global University, and there are approximately 2,700 socioeconomic background. simulations to teach legislative negotiation. We have already conducted trainings. We are generation of Korean leaders that is where I realized education attending primary and secondary I hope to make dreams come looking forward to a two-day training program for congressional staffers this summer, one with by providing low-income and can transform one’s life. But school—they are discouraged true for the next generation, the National Conference of State Legislators in November/December, and an advanced training North Korean refugee students even though I worked hard— and discriminated against and begin to dream and prepare for congressional staffers next January. After an earlier training session, one congressional with translating, tutoring, and I sometimes worked five or seven because of the language barrier. for what Korea will be like as a staffer took a bill out of her bottom drawer, which she had tried and failed to have passed, and, mentoring services. We’re also part-time jobs to support myself— We developed a mobile app to unified country. MARTHA STEWART MARTHA using her new negotiation skills, got it passed. COURTESY OF YUKANG CHOI YUKANG CHOI OF OF COURTESY COURTESY

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A Fierce Faith Agnes Igoye mc/mpa 2017 is the loud, unwavering voice of the survivors Agnes Igoye (far right) is Uganda’s deputy national of human trafficking. BY KATIE GIBSON coordinator for prevention of trafficking in persons.

“MY BIRTH WAS REALLY A SCANDAL—my aunt and others in the village Control. Her work extends across 13 ministries, directorates, and Igoye’s passion extends beyond victims of trafficking: she has and resources to help them obtain employment and education. were very disappointed,” Agnes Igoye says with a laugh, but only agencies. And she has founded a program that gives displaced women a worked with women displaced by the activities of the Lord’s Resistance Igoye may have spent only a year in Cambridge, but she took half-jokingly. place to live. “I’m committed to being a voice for the survivors of human Army. In 2013, she founded the Huts for Peace program, which helps full advantage of the chance to hone her skills. “I took some writing Igoye was one of six daughters (and two sons) born into a culture that trafficking,” Igoye says. displaced women build their own homes using locally sourced courses and I spoke extensively, both inside and outside the typically devalues female children. From a young age, she endured taunts Igoye joined the battle to combat trafficking as soon as she graduated materials. To date, the program has provided housing for more than University,” she says. “I learned how to speak publicly, and it shows. and disparaging comments from men. Her childhood was also marked from Makerere University, then the only university in Uganda. She started 20 displaced families, many of which include children who have lost That’s what Harvard has given me: that creativity, that confidence.” by Uganda’s brutal civil wars, and in the late 1980s her family had to flee in Uganda’s Immigration Services Department. Today, her work has relatives to the war. She has stayed in touch with several their village after it came under attack from the violent rebel group the expanded to training counter-trafficking agents and liaising with the In 2016, Igoye received a $50,000 At the end of the day, it’s really classmates, some of whom have visited Lord’s Resistance Army and ended up living in a camp. media and various non-governmental organizations. award from the Diller-Diane von we the people who have to take her to see her work on the ground and But through all this, Igoye had an unusual advantage: both her Victims of trafficking are often deceived by their captors, who make Furstenberg Foundation to build a center provide support. “We are connected and parents were teachers who believed in the importance of education false promises of jobs, education, or travel to young people who have for survivors of human trafficking. “That charge of our lives and come up we support each other,” she says. for girls. And she was moved from an early age by the importance of rarely had any of those opportunities. In Uganda, trafficking can include was a dream,” she says, explaining that with our own solutions. While Igoye is clear-eyed about the protecting the weak, especially women, from abuse. child marriage, forced labor, and the conscription of child soldiers. Part of survivors of trafficking often have few AGNES IGOYE MC/MPA 2017 problems facing formerly trafficked “I said to my mother,” Igoye remembers, “‘I’m going to work really Igoye’s work lies in combating the cultural prejudices against victims. resources available to them after escaping — Ugandans, she also has a fierce faith in her hard in life, and embarrass these men by being successful!’” In 2009, Igoye received the Hubert Humphrey Fellowship from the their situations. “I would pick people up in the night and bring them to community, especially her countrywomen. Igoye has woven those strands of her life—education, achievement, U.S. Department of State and spent a year at the University of Minnesota my house,” she says. “It was a bit uncomfortable, because I was living “I believe they can solve their own problems,” she says. “At the protection—together as she has become a national and even global figure connecting with and learning from other anti-trafficking professionals. with my mother and sister, and these women would be in my family’s end of the day, it’s really we the people who have to take charge of in the fight against human trafficking. Today she is Uganda’s deputy She has continued to strengthen those relationships, going on speaking space. But I didn’t have anywhere else to take them. And the next our lives and come up with our own solutions. The opportunities are national coordinator for prevention of trafficking in persons. She is also tours in the United States and elsewhere to raise awareness of trafficking morning, they would be gone.” Igoye hopes the center will provide a enormous.” And she’s not going to miss a single one.

the training manager for the Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration and share what she has learned in the field. IGOYE AGNES OF COURTESY safe place for women to stay, in addition to programming

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CAN E A EPEC SICE YAN SEENSON MPP/ 1 AS EICAE IS IE O ANSEING A ESION.

BY ISSAC BAILEY PORTRAIT BY RICK FRONTIERO EAN FROST EAN

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3 HKSmag_su18_features_12-33_Final.indd 12 8/7/18 1:07 PM 3 HKSmag_su18_features_12-33_Final.indd 13 8/7/18 1:08 PM STEVENSON career he wanted to pursue. Courses at the Kennedy School further developed that conviction by helping him appreciate the SAYS importance of rigorous analysis in being able to do his work in behalf of the poor and downtrodden well. HIS CALLING “I wanted to understand how quantitative analysis might help prove and show bias and discrimination,” Stevenson said. “My FOUND time at the Kennedy School helped me understand what those HIM. metrics were saying and how to articulate them for judges and policymakers, and even clients. All of that was very valuable.” Some of his most important legal triumphs came in the form of precedent-setting Supreme Court rulings that changed “I definitely think this work chose me,” Stevenson said. “I had the way the criminal justice system can treat the young. His no expectation of what kind of lawyer I would be or what I would 2012 argument before the Court led to a 5-4 decision in Miller v. be doing when I got to Harvard. There is something about seeing Alabama and Jackson v. Hobbs that mandatory life sentences for inequality and injustice, and when you believe you have the juveniles convicted of murder violated the Eighth Amendment. ability to address it, to not respond to it in an effective way would That ruling relied heavily on legal reasoning Stevenson had be, for me, incredibly painful and oppressive—and I don’t want to used years earlier in a case that rendered unconstitutional life- be pained and oppressed.” without-parole sentences for juveniles convicted in non-homicide His call to fight for equality didn’t begin at Harvard, where cases. The Court has since said the Miller v. Alabama ruling was he attended the Kennedy School and the law school during the retroactive, affecting upward of 2,300 people who had been 1980s. His fighting roots are deep, going back to at least a great- sentenced when they were children. grandfather who defied laws and customs and risked death to “I don’t think people understand what our abuse and cruelty become literate even though he was one of 4 million enslaved and neglect of basic human needs can do to people,” Stevenson Africans. Seeing what his family, and other black families like said. “We have thousands of children born into violent families. N 1912, SHIRAH DEDMAN’S great-grandfather, Thomas unfair sentencing, and shined a light on the The National Memorial his, had faced and overcome without becoming bitter steeled These children live in violent neighborhoods. They go to violent William Miles Sr., was lynched in Shreveport, Louisiana, worst abuses of the criminal justice system. for Peace and Justice Stevenson's resolve and is why he’s able to maintain hope schools. And by the time they’re five, they for allegedly passing a note to a white woman. His widow Now, with the National Memorial, Stevenson includes 800 six- where others see impossibility. Stevenson speaks at foot monuments have a trauma disorder. They are going to and only child fled to California, joining about 6 million aims at even deeper change. But Harvard helped him hone skills that transformed him the opening of the representing the victims school with elevated levels of cortisol and Memorial for Peace and African-Americans who left the South during the Great “Much of the critical work in this country into a MacArthur grant recipient, best-selling author, TED Talk of lynching and the adrenaline coursing through their brains, and Justice in Montgomery, Migration of the early and mid-20th century looking for to help disfavored communities, marginalized star, and one of the most influential lawyers in the country in the counties and states they are like vets coming back from a combat Alabama, in April. better opportunities—and a place they might be safe from communities, these powerless communities, where they took place. past quarter of a century. lynching and Jim Crow, the institutionalized system of legal has come because the courts have recognized He arrived in Cambridge never having met segregation. Dedman’s family had not traveled back east their rights, and that’s why I continue to see the courts and a lawyer and a bit intimidated by his new Ifor nearly a century. law as the forum where it makes sense for me to spend time,” surroundings. But he was soon disenchanted, But in April, Dedman, her mother, and aunt were in Stevenson said in an interview shortly after the opening of the because “the conversations seemed, initially, Montgomery, Alabama. What had brought them there was the memorial. “However, we’ve opened this museum and memorial very disconnected from issues like helping National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum, because I definitely recognize the limits of what these institutions the poor or creating justice for those who dedicated to the more than 4,400 victims of lynching. will do if we don’t create a deeper, more transformative were marginalized.” “There was no accountability,” Dedman said, as she toured commitment to eliminating bias and bigotry to protect the poor “I went to the Kennedy School really the memorial—part museum, part tribute, part installation. “So, and disfavored. I am interested in non-legal narrative work as a looking for something more engaging and to have accountability, that would completely change the black way to change our society.” initially was alienated by the focus on experience in America. We have to admit that black people … “When I go to the Holocaust museum, at the end of it, I am maximizing benefits and minimizing costs weren’t really considered citizens. We still struggle to reconcile motivated to say, Never again,” Stevenson said. “We haven’t without attention to whose benefits got ourselves as citizens, as full citizens of America.” created spaces that present the history of racial inequality in maximized and whose costs got minimized,” Reckoning with the history documented by the memorial this country in a way that motivates people to say Never again. Stevenson said. “When I got proximate to poor and the Legacy Museum “is about bringing black history and Because we haven’t said Never again, people say things that communities in the midst of that, that’s when reconciling it with the American history we know.” are ignorant about enslaved people being responsible for their everything changed for me.” The memorial and museum were the brainchild of Bryan slavery, or people being lynched, or segregation being something A class with Elizabeth Bartholet at the Stevenson mpp/jd 1985. Stevenson is known as the founder of that black people wanted. I think that mind-set has just not been law school, which required him to spend a the Equal Justice Initiative and an indefatigable defender of the disrupted by the truth of what our history is. I do believe the truth month with a human rights organization in powerless, whose legal work has helped exonerate innocent can make us free. Understanding what has happened, despite its Atlanta, where he worked with death row death row prisoners, brought about changes to excessive and brutality, is key to us creating a better future.” inmates, began to make clear the kind of BOB MILLER SCHAPIRO STEVE

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3 HKSmag_su18_features_12-33_Final_R2.indd 14 8/8/18 6:19 PM 3 HKSmag_su18_features_12-33_Final.indd 15 8/7/18 11:51 AM “All of that just reinforces the importance of a narrative project that pushes us to understand that we are going to be judged not by how we treat the rich and powerful and the celebrated; we’re going to be judged by how we treat the poor, the neglected, the undocumented, the incarcerated. In that vein, we have a lot of work to do in America. I’m really excited that in the midst of some of this confusion, we can present something that can hopefully give people a perspective that will help them navigate some of these questions and issues.” The Peace and Justice Memorial is part of that narrative. Stevenson had to be at various times secretive, delicate, and creative to buy the land and raise the funds for the project, which was built on six blocks overlooking downtown Montgomery, not far from a site where slaves were once sold. Stevenson and his staff investigated thousands of lynchings in the South. The project, which took years, was the first to document what Stevenson calls the “racial terror” endured by African-Americans for so long. The striking design includes 800 hanging steel monuments, each symbolizing a county where a lynching took place. As part of the memorial’s mission to bring real understanding and discussion of this history, Equal Justice Initiative is inviting those counties to claim and install replicas of the zone. What you are supposed to do is help those children feel I’ve seen what happens when the larger Stevenson (left) speaks monuments—a constant reminder of how the country is those killed by Roof. She hasn’t seen the Peace and Justice safe. But instead we … menace them. And when those children, environment, outside the courts, tolerates to the media after the grappling with its history. The museum also includes large glass Memorial yet but plans to get there by this summer. Its after eight or nine years, are given a drug and for the first time inequality and injustice. I think it does release of Anthony Ray Hinton (right), jars full of soil—each one collected from the site of a lynching. importance can’t be overstated, she says. in their lives, for three hours, they don’t feel traumatized, we get undermine the commitment to equality who spent almost 30 “It gives us another opportunity that we need to seize,” mad at them when they say, ‘I want more of that drug,’ or when from our judges and decision makers.” years on death row in McIver said. “We need to seize every opportunity we can to someone a few years later says, ‘Join my gang and we’ll help you That’s why Stevenson’s work is now Alabama for a crime he expose our children to our history. We don’t know how many fight against all these forces.’ We punish them for that.” not only to convince judges and Supreme did not commit. "I THINK THERE'S people were actually lynched. We don’t know how many The Equal Justice Initiative, the nonprofit Stevenson founded Court justices; it is to push the country slaves were lost at sea and through suicide and other ways. in the 1990s to represent poor defendants facing death in to fully grapple with a painful past whose legacy is very much SOMETHING BETTER It’s just the knowing. I just want to know. This will give us an Alabama and initially funded with money from his MacArthur alive, and to change that reality. opportunity to teach. What did they have to go through? What grant, has won relief for at least 125 people on death row, But he realizes there’s much work to do. Just since the FOR US THAN WHAT did they have to cope with? How did they survive?” including Anthony Ray Hinton, who was freed in 2015 after Peace and Justice Memorial was unveiled, black-as-automatic- McIver, like Dedman, sees the EJI's work as key in the spending 30 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. suspect stories have made headlines nearly daily: a white Yale WE'VE ACHIEVED." African-American quest to finally piece together a history The impact of Stevenson’s legal work will last for decades student calling the police on a black Yale student sleeping in that has in some ways been stolen, in others hidden, in still and is why the American Bar Association deemed him a Human the common area of a dorm; a white golf course owner calling others papered over and downplayed, from slavery to lynching Rights Hero and said his has been “an extraordinary life.” the police on a group of black women supposedly golfing too A little more than a century after Thomas Miles was lynched to Jim Crow to police violence. It’s part of a chipping away But beyond the lengthy list of his legal accomplishments, slowly; a white store manager calling the police on two black in Shreveport, a small group of black people attended a Bible of the shame of always feeling suspect, guilty until proved his ability to recognize the limits of the law—without allowing men sitting quietly in a Starbucks. study at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina. innocent, a stranger in one’s own land. It helps explain long- it to limit his pursuit of justice—has enabled him to carve a “I do think we are in the midst of an identity crisis,” Stevenson A young white man named Dylann Roof joined them, prayed unacknowledged trauma and how and why wearing dark skin path unlike any other. said. “We haven’t accurately understood our history, and that has with them, studied with them—and then massacred them. in America has always been a burden. After Brown v. Board of Education, Stevenson “saw the left us vulnerable to perspectives that I believe are very unhealthy. Nine people in all, murdered in a church founded by black For too long, “as a black person, you didn’t expect justice,” Supreme Court as a powerful institution,” he said. “There I’m not sure, as an African-American, what decade I’m supposed people who had tired of being discriminated against by white Dedman said. were no high schools in my county for black kids when my dad to want to relive when people start invoking this 'Make America Christians. Though Roof was eventually held accountable the was a teenager—he couldn’t go to school in that county.” The great again' mantra. It’s confusing for many of us because we way lynchers never were and will spend the rest of his life in a Supreme Court ruling in Brown showed the power of the law as believe the greatness of America has yet to be fully achieved. And federal prison, ripples from that June 2015 massacre are still — an institution, but also its limits. “The rule of law was, for me, a that notion animates much of the work that I do. I think there is being felt three years later, with black churches struggling to Issac Bailey, a former Nieman Fellow, is a journalist and writer very captivating forum in which to think about changing things, something better waiting for us than what we’ve achieved when determine how best to keep congregations safe but welcoming. living in Charleston, South Carolina. His book, My Brother and I continue to believe it is a powerful space for reform. But it comes to equality, when it comes to fairness, when it comes It also forever changed retired South Carolina educator Moochie, chronicles the trauma of seeing his beloved older

I have seen the courts accommodate bias and discrimination. to eliminating bias and bigotry and discrimination.” MARVIN GENTRY BRYNN ANDERSON Marjorie McIver, whose sister Myra Thompson was among brother sentenced to life in prison for murder.

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THE HKS GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE LAB HAS A SIMPLE MISSION: SOLVE SOCIAL PROBLEMS BY FIXING THE WAY GOVERNMENT WORKS PERFORMANCE SPECIALISTS

BY ROBERT O'NEILL

WHEN HIS PHONE RANG one afternoon in January 2015, Jeffrey Liebman, 2011 after serving in leadership roles at President Obama’s Office Wiener Professor of Public Policy and director of the Taubman Center of Management and Budget. The gpl’s mission is to help state for State and Local Government, was grading exams. “I decided to and local leaders make progress on social problems by improving answer anyway,” Liebman says, “which is good, because it turned the way governments contract for and manage social services. The out to be the governor of Rhode Island asking for help.” gpl developed a hands-on model of research, embedding staff in Governor Gina Raimondo had just taken office, inheriting a troubled government agencies to provide technical assistance. These team child welfare agency $16 million over budget and with a higher members, including many hks alums, typically work with an agency percentage of children in group care settings than almost any state in for one to two years to help develop, test, and the country. An audit would reveal that the agency was signing away implement innovative management strategies. tens of millions of dollars without financial controls or oversight and Liebman had heard about Pay for Success was producing poor outcomes for the children and families in its care. (pfs) projects in the United Kingdom and was “When I took office, the Department of Children, Youth and interested in testing their use in the United Families faced a number of significant operations and budget States. Under pfs contracts, also called social challenges that had to be addressed quickly so that we could impact bonds, the government agrees to pay for Jeffrey Liebman provide better outcomes for our children,” Raimondo says. “I knew services only if they are shown to be successful, that Jeff had started an organization at the Kennedy School that allowing it to test promising new interventions could actually send staff to come work full-time, pro bono on the and pull together disparate stakeholders in ground supporting transformational initiatives. I asked him to send long-term collaborations. The gpl’s inaugural as many people as he could.” projects assisted Massachusetts and New

In response to Governor Raimondo’s request, Liebman agreed York in setting up the first two state-level pfs Gina Raimondo to embed a team from the Government Performance Lab (gpl) with project in the country, one aimed at reducing Rhode Island’s Department of Children, Youth, and Families (dcyf) recidivism and the other at helping young people exiting the to work with agency staff to figure out solutions to the agency’s juvenile justice system. most pressing problems. “I thought I was going to do a few small projects and then get

HARRY CAMPBELL HARRY Liebman had founded the Government Performance Lab in back to regular teaching and research,” Liebman says. But he

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3 HKSmag_su18_features_12-33_Final_R2.indd 18 8/8/18 6:19 PM 3 HKSmag_su18_features_12-33_Final.indd 19 8/7/18 11:51 AM discovered there was enormous appetite for the type of data- diffi cult clients. “From these initial projects, it became clear that and behavioral health practice. “Our homelessness projects in agencies, dcyf had separate teams overseeing contract invoicing, driven, boots-on-the-ground technical assistance his fl edgling the best way to fi gure out how to help governments administer Seattle, Denver, and Massachusetts take innovative approaches to quality assurance, and program evaluation. Each one functioned team could provide. Before the fi rst pfs project had even launched, and manage programs better is to try it out. These hands-on addressing the crisis and develop new methods for shifting resources separately, and no team was tasked with using real-time data to 25 more governments had applied for assistance. Liebman engagements are where the best new ideas for public sector to solutions that are likely to generate lasting change.” improve service delivery. The gpl helped dcyf establish a system began building a staff with backgrounds in data analysis, public management are going to come from,” Liebman says. “And once that engaged service providers and agency staff in high-frequency, policy, and implementation, and placing them in the fi eld with our government partners see the value of having a change agent on data-driven collaborations to troubleshoot problems and identify governments selected through national competitions. Over the next their team, they often create positions to hire our fellows directly opportunities for performance improvement. In these “Active few years, the gpl helped launch 12 of the country’s fi rst 18 pfs after our formal technical assistance comes to an end. Our work RHODE ISLAND Contract Management” meetings, gpl staff used data and case projects, including initiatives in maternal and infant health, high- lets us train a new generation of passionate public servants and TURNAROUND reviews to focus provider and agency participants on generating new quality pre-K, and homelessness, expanding over $135 million in connect them to governments that are hungry for talent.” solutions to key problems. preventative services to more than 20,000 individuals. Following Governor Raimondo’s call to Liebman in 2015, a gpl team So when the agency was still seeing children with clinical needs It quickly became clear that the gpl could have a greater impact arrived in Rhode Island’s Department of Children Youth and Families linger in group care, Active Contract Management provided the if it moved beyond pfs and instead helped agencies improve their (dcyf) soon after the appointment of an interim director tasked structure to bring the agency and service providers together to try overall operations. “Our government partners began to ask whether RESULTS-DRIVEN with leading a full agency turnaround. They began their work by to tease out what was happening, says gpl fellow Alice Heath mpp the same models we developed in pfs could be applied to help CONTRACTING painting a basic picture of what the agency was buying. “Our fellow 2016. “Digging into the data, we learned that many kids would have government social service agencies run their core operations better,” literally went desk to desk fi nding contracts in drawers and built a their clinical needs met but then would hit administrative barriers says Ryan Gillette mpp 2012, a program director who launched pfs One of the key insights Liebman’s team had uncovered during its pfs database of the money the agency owed for services,” says Scott that created lengthy delays to placement with a foster family,” projects in Massachusetts, Chicago, Connecticut, Michigan, and work was that procurement and contracting were too often seen as Kleiman, the program director overseeing the gpl’s work with dcyf. Heath says. “That was a new insight for the agency that helped Alameda County, California. “We’d be working on a small pfs project back-offi ce compliance functions instead of used as powerful levers The resulting dataset offered the agency’s new leadership team its change the way they targeted their efforts to make sure as many with an agency that was spending $200 million a year on core for systems change. gpl developed a framework for Results-Driven fi rst glimpse at historical service utilization trends and enabled them kids as possible were in homes with a family.” With the gpl’s help, services with no strategy and no use of data. Agency heads began Contracting to help governments achieve high-priority strategic goals to project future funding needs. It also allowed them to see that the department launched a pilot to meet with families early in a to say, ‘We want you to take what you did in pfs and apply it to all and drive improvements in service delivery. Its success in helping the department’s array of services had not kept up with the needs child’s group home placement to determine strategies to better of our work.’ pfs became the admissions ticket to broader systems governments make signifi cant changes in day-to-day operations of children and families in care. Automatically extended year after prepare them for a move to a foster family. change.” caught the eye of the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ What Works Cities year, many contracts had remained frozen in time, even as needs “Our gpl colleagues bring new perspectives to our work,” says In 2016 and 2017, the gpl invited applications from governments Initiative, which awarded the gpl $5 million to coach more than 26 had shifted. In recent years, for example, a growing number of young dcyf Director Trista Piccola. “Whether implementing an Active seeking assistance with high-priority initiatives and was overwhelmed U.S. cities on implementing Results-Driven Contracting practices. women had been ensnared in sex traffi cking, yet dcyf lacked any Contract Management structure with our community providers or by responses. Raising over $22 million in grant funding, the gpl Through the initiative, Seattle applied for help on its specialized services to address their unique needs. helping our team align our contracting processes, their help has been expanded at a breathtaking pace—today it is a 45-person organization homelessness contracts. Over the course of a decade, the city’s The contract overview laid the groundwork for mapping services invaluable. Change is one of the most diffi cult issues faced by large and has worked with 65 governments in 31 states. budget for homelessness services had almost doubled to $50 against needs and pinpointing areas where interventions were systems like ours, and gpl has helped us create positive, lasting “We began to see common challenges across governments,” says million, but homelessness was still increasing at 13 percent every missing or where an approach needed to be reimagined. When the change for our state’s children and families.” gpl Program Director Danielle Cerny mpp 2014. “They have talented year. “We had 168 contracts with homelessness service providers, agency asked for assistance with the reprocurement of nearly $100 The results of the gpl’s engagements thus far are impressive. staff but are so consumed with putting out fi res and keeping things but we couldn’t tell if they were adding up to actual progress,” says million in core services (about 40 percent of the agency’s budget), During the gpl’s time in Rhode Island, the share of foster children in running that they don’t have the capacity to strategically connect Tyler Running Deer, the city’s former organizational performance it became an opportunity to go back to the drawing board and fi nd group homes declined 29 percent, the volume of contracted foster their daily activities with their long-term goals. Are there high-needs director. “We needed more detailed data and more frequent data new service delivery solutions. gpl staff fanned out across the state, homes rose 63 percent, and the number of children in out-of-state individuals that they ought to be reaching who are not connected review points. It was clear that it wasn’t just a question of spending talking with dozens of nonprofi t service providers and agency social institutional care dropped 44 percent. At the governor’s request, the to services or have fallen through more money, but spending it smarter.” workers, elevating often overlooked perspectives from the service gpl has embedded fellows with eight other state agencies and led THESE HANDS-ON the cracks? Are the services the The gpl helped the city review its homelessness contracts and frontlines. Eschewing traditional “cut and paste” contract renewals, over 100 state agency staff in trainings. In 2017, Seattle announced agency inherited actually the identifi ed 26, worth $8.5 million, to rework. The gpl found that rather Kleiman’s team then helped dcyf structure a multi-part “problem- that it would utilize the results-driven contracting framework ENGAGEMENTS ones that their clients need? How than measuring meaningful metrics of client progress, provider staff based” procurement that engaged a broad set of stakeholders in it had piloted with the gpl in a procurement for $30 million in ARE WHERE THE can they use real-time data to were asked to report on measures of activity such as the number of proposing solutions to the challenges the agency was trying to solve. homelessness services. Jurisdictions that initially reached out to improve the outcomes they get beds fi lled or the numbers of showers administered—not only were At the time, Rhode Island was close to worst in the nation in the the gpl for assistance with a pfs contract are now applying the BEST NEW IDEAS from their providers? Working such metrics meaningless, but they took up a signifi cant amount of percentage of children in its care in group homes rather than with foster data-driven principles they learned to core services. For example, ARE GOING TO across jurisdictions has allowed staff time to compile. families or relatives. The agency noted that children with clinical needs Connecticut’s Department of Children and Families, which worked COME FROM. us to develop a set of approaches The gpl helped the city simplify and streamline the contracts were often being sent to placement in group homes. At the agency’s with the gpl on a $12 million project improving services for families that responds to the recurring around a core set of metrics related to the outcomes the city cared fi rst-provider summit, the gpl asked nonprofi t service providers dealing with substance abuse, is now working with gpl fellow JEFFREY LIEBMAN issues we see governments most about—whether individuals were progressing to stable housing to brainstorm alternative interventions. Providers suggested an Matthew Tyler mpp 2017 to transform the way it connects families and — grappling with.” situations rather than cycling back into homelessness. Those new evidence-based model from Oregon that provided high-intensity children to services. Liebman and his growing team have become experts at metrics are allowing the city to measure progress in real time and support for foster families taking in children with behavioral challenges. As it nears its seventh anniversary, the gpl is poised for even using analytics, outcomes-focused contracts, and cross-sector implement data-focused collaborations between service providers But the gpl recognized that simply procuring a new service greater impact. “We have far more governments asking us for help collaborations to help improve social service programs. The gpl and agency staff that are improving performance. “In homelessness, array was not enough. dcyf dneeded better practices for effectively than we have the resources to serve,” says Liebman. “Our focus helps governments address thorny questions, like how to use data the challenge is often overcoming a perpetual crisis state in order to managing its contracts while services were being delivered. Kleiman going forward is on continuing to do innovative projects that generate to fi nd individuals who had fallen through the cracks, or how to focus on preventative and long-term solutions,” says Tyler Jaeckel and his team implemented an approach to engaging service new solutions while also fi nding cost-effective ways to spread the restructure contracts to incentivize providers to serve the most mpp 2013, the program director who leads the gpl’s homelessness providers that upended typical government practice. Like many solutions we have already demonstrated.”

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NATION BUILDING Part lawyer, part policymaker, Ethel Branch mpp/jd 2008 is on a mission to make the Navajo Nation more than what it was when Navajo Nation Attorney General Ethel Branch mpp/jd 2008, she grew up there. speaking at a press conference challenging President Trump’s | executive order to shrink Bears Ears National Monument in

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BY KATIE GIBSON ETHEL BRANCH MPP/JD 2008 grew up just outside the small town There were very few other Native American students, and some of Winslow, Arizona. But in many ways, her childhood experience of them had grown up in cities, so the divide between our was a million miles from there. experiences was still huge.” “I noticed really early on in my childhood that we didn’t Never one to back down from a challenge, Branch worked have basic amenities,” says Branch, whose family home on a hard to hone her academic skills, graduating in 2001 with a Navajo reservation lacked running water and electricity when she degree in history. Even as an undergraduate, she was interested was young, and even still today. “I didn’t perceive a difference in law and policy, and how each of those related to her own between myself and the people who lived off reservation, but experience and the issues facing her community. there was definitely a difference in the services available to us. “I took some classes with Joe Kalt through the Harvard Project And I started asking, Why?” on American Indian Economic Development,” Branch says. “I Simply getting off the reservation could be difficult—the always had so many questions: Why is there no development in nearest neighbor was miles from her parents’ ranch. But after Indian country? Why are our economies stagnant? I was the only graduating from Winslow High School, she made a much greater person from my community at Harvard, but I wanted to make that leap: coming to Harvard College for her undergraduate studies. a normal thing. I didn’t want to be the only one.” (Kalt is now a “I almost felt like I was an international student going to a codirector of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic totally different world,” says Branch of her transition to Harvard. Development and the Ford Foundation Professor (Emeritus) of “I couldn’t call my parents because they didn’t have a phone. International Political Economy at hks.) DAVID HARE DAVID

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3 HKSmag_su18_features_12-33_Final.indd 22 8/7/18 11:51 AM 3 HKSmag_su18_features_12-33_Final.indd 23 8/7/18 11:51 AM For me it was always about: How do I After graduation, Branch headed make Harvard federal-style model: we have three back home to Arizona to work as the branches of government, a unicameral headmistress of a local public charter high relevant to home? legislature, and 12 different divisions school, teaching history and language arts How do I bring (similar to federal agencies). It’s a very courses. She loved the work, but quickly American federal type of model, and it is realized the limitations faced by many of these resources not loved by the Navajo people. They don’t her students whose parents were—in the back to the really see it as their own.” best case—working multiple minimum- After practicing law in the Pacific wage jobs to stay afloat financially. Some Navajo community? Northwest for several years, with a brief of her students had parents or guardians stint in Washington, D.C., Branch returned who were forced to take better-paying ETHEL BRANCH again to her roots. Since 2015, she has jobs in other cities, rendering them | served as attorney general of the Navajo solvent but often absent. Alcoholism Nation. With a staff of 88, she oversees and unemployment were common. Whatever the reason, many the legal affairs of the Nation, whose sovereign territory stretches of her students’ parents were frequently unavailable to deal with across parts of three states (Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico—and disciplinary problems, illness, or other issues that arose for their with a land claim and free holdings in Colorado) and comprises children. Branch knew that larger-scale change was needed to various departments and offices. The Navajo people, address the underlying lack of employment and opportunity. As attorney general, Branch recognizes both the immediate “The real barrier to economic development in Native necessity of the work she does and the irony of being a Native at what you would call communities is the lack of human capital,” Branch says. “I saw person whose job includes working within the current system the grassroots level, this firsthand: we don’t have people returning. They go away to of government. “The Navajo people, at what you would call the college and then they never come back. Or they’re not even getting grassroots level, are against bureaucracy,” she says. “They feel are against past high school graduation. After I came back from Harvard, I like it doesn’t recognize their humanity.” Navajo community.” The attorney general's it’s also crucial to the future of economic wondered, What happened to my high school classmates from the On some level, she admits, that attitude makes sense: for office is also suing Wells Fargo for its bureaucracy. development. “Our own people won’t want reservation? I wanted to do something about it.” people who need basic services or want to solve problems for targeting of Navajo consumers, especially They feel like it to come back and live and work here if After working on several more projects related to Native themselves and their communities, an office far from their homes elderly people and female business owners, they don’t feel like their kids are going to American education and economic development, Branch realized can seem inaccessible or simply out of touch. “Even my mom gets in unfair and unethical business practices. doesn’t recognize be safe,” she says. “And developers won’t that she needed more tools to make change happen. frustrated with me about our water service policies,” Branch says. The list of issues goes on: voting rights and their humanity. want to invest in communities that aren’t “I began to realize how many barriers there are to development “She’ll say, ‘It’s not your job to enforce policies—it’s your job to gerrymandering, water rights disputes, tribal safe, or where their property or investments on the Navajo Nation,” Branch says. “And so many of them are help us!’” Although Branch believes there’s a way to do both, it jurisdiction over trust land leased to public ETHEL BRANCH won't be protected.” ridiculous! There are laws and policies, and you have to get tribal can be an uphill battle. school districts, to name a few. Branch can reel off a long list of changes | approval for many things, which takes forever. Then documents Branch's work as attorney general encompasses many facets “It’s demanding in a million different that would improve public safety on the would get ‘lost’ in Washington. I wanted to know, How do you of Navajo life: public safety, utility services such as water and ways, and that’s what makes it so fun and fulfilling,” Branch says. Nation. For starters, a comprehensive 911 system would make a eliminate those barriers and make it easier, How do you make the electricity, voting rights legislation, social and emergency services. “I always loved a challenge: that’s what got me to Harvard for difference. “Sixty percent of the Nation doesn’t have two-way radio Nation more business-friendly? How do you make it so people aren’t “I feel like the way I connect this government to our people is by college, and got me back there for graduate studies. And I work access,” she explains. “Forty percent of it doesn’t have cell phone scared away by the cost and the time it takes to invest here?” being out in the community more than my predecessors,” she with a wonderful team.” access. This makes it difficult for our officers to call for backup, Branch applied for the joint program at hks and Harvard Law says. “I’ve tackled things that a lot of other attorney generals One constant challenge for Branch and her colleagues is or for our people to call for help when they need it.” She dreams School, knowing she would need both the law and the policy wouldn’t have bothered to tackle.” staffing: many departments are consistently understaffed, about a fully-functional two-way radio system, a non-911 crisis piece. “It was hard to come back to Boston,” she admits. “My A large part of Branch’s work entails suing entities such as and historically, they have struggled to share resources and hotline staffed by social services personnel, and a full complement dad was really ill, and he ended up passing away while I was in the U.S. government and various corporations, calling them to communicate with one another. In 2017, Branch reinstituted of judges, prosecutors, and public defenders across the Nation. law school. I definitely relished the academic challenge, and the account for wrongful business practices or unfair actions that violate annual public safety summits followed by monthly meetings Meanwhile, she’s trying to standardize local rules and procedures ways in which I was exposed to information and resources I hadn’t the rights of Navajo people or the sovereignty of the Nation. For with officials from agencies across the Nation working on across the Nation's 12 judicial districts, to help streamline the public had access to before. For me it was always about, How do I make example, Branch's department is suing the U.S. Environmental different aspects of public safety. “It’s been huge,” she says of safety system and reduce delays. Harvard relevant to home? How do I bring these resources back Protection Agency and other parties for their part in contaminating the summits. “We included behavioral health, social services, Politics within the Nation can be complicated, but Branch to the Navajo community? There was a lot of independent study. I Navajo waters in the Gold King Mine spill. “That impacted our fire departments, emergency medical services. We brought all keeps her focus firmly on one thing: “I’m here for the Navajo would always try to reorient my papers back to home.” farmers in the San Juan River basin tremendously and on an the partners together. None of us have adequate staffing—that’s people,” she says. “Hearing from everyday people that they’re One of Branch’s projects during her time at hks was a paper on individual basis,” Branch says. “This is a strong farming community the reality. So how do we focus our resources? How do we stop grateful for the work I do makes it all worth it. And I work with Navajo governmental reform, addressing the disconnect between where people were able to make a living from farming. They were blaming one another and begin to work together?” a wonderful team, many of whom are Navajos who grew up on tribal culture and the Nation’s current system of government. “It’s using lots of organic methods, and heirloom strains of fruits and Public safety is a critical issue for the Navajo Nation, which the Nation. Our staff are very committed. They are aware that a real challenge,” she says, explaining that the present Navajo vegetables as well. To take away that source of empowerment to has high rates of homicide, theft, and domestic violence. While every additional minute they put in on the job is meaningful to

Nation government “is not a cultural match. It’s a very American, families was devastating to the community there and to the larger PETEARMAN MARK that challenge is important to address on its own, Branch says, someone’s life.”

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He relied on the skills he learned at hks for responsive curriculum encourages well- The odds of starting epla were not good. these tasks: “Negotiation skills, regression rounded leadership: “Our students learn to Not only did Yanar have to refine his charter analysis, and ethics—I studied all of these at view their race or background as an asset and register as a nonprofit organization, but the Kennedy School and use them now.” rather than a deficit. We empower them with he faced the lengthy process of applying with Yanar is not only interested in teaching a curriculum that connects with their culture.” the Texas Education Agency, which grants leadership skills, but he hopes to serve as Yanar’s plans began to take shape in charter school status. In 2013, a model of leadership by earnest when he cross-registered for a class epla was one of only three example. “I myself am in a at Harvard Graduate School of Education with successful applicants from an statistically minute group senior lecturer Katherine Merseth, an expert initial pool of more than 80. of people,” he explains. on charter schools. Combining the lessons he The hard work continued after “I say this not as a point learned at hgse and hks, Yanar began what Yanar set up the school, aided of pride but as a point of would become his 288-page charter, the by a charter school start-up concern. I am one of only a BY NORA DELANEY school’s foundational document. Yanar also grant and private donations few Latino charter school founders or ceos in the country. But by serving as ceo, I can show our kids that it is possible. They can and must become ceos too.” Even now, Yanar is seeing results as his first students enter high school and are “When some teachers say, ‘Go home and do your homework,’ they may not understand excelling. “We have turned these kids’ lives around,” Yanar says. “They are exemplars in what work our students have at home,” Omar Yanar mpp 2010 explains. “Some our community.” He is proud of the fact that students wonder if the electricity will be on. Some wonder if an alcoholic relative will the question many of them face now is not whether they will go to college, but where. be crashing on their bed. Others enter an empty home because mom is working three — jobs to keep the family afl oat. This is the reality for many students. As educators, we Omar Yanar mpp 2010 (top right) says students of the El Paso Leadership Academy Wneed to ask what more schools can do to ensure these children succeed.” are taught a set of core values: collaboration, responsibility, smarts, humility, and hunger. Yanar observes that we have a national Born and raised in El Paso—and Latino high-income counterparts,” he says. problem: Schools are not fully addressing like the majority of his pupils—Yanar epla opened its doors to students in the needs of low-income minority students. is a social entrepreneur on a mission. 2014, but Yanar developed the idea of To fi x this problem, he believes schools must “Students will make the decision to attend creating a tuition-free school fi ve years earlier treat students’ racial and socioeconomic college in seventh grade,” he says. “That at Harvard Kennedy School. At hks, Yanar We have status as assets rather than defi cits, decision is largely based on reading level, met Marshall Ganz, Rita E. Hauser Senior something he feels that the public school but their success depends on how socially Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing, and turned these system does not always do. and emotionally prepared they are.” Civil Society, who inspired him to serve his Yanar is the founder and ceo of El Paso Students who are signifi cantly behind in home community through grassroots work in kids' lives Leadership Academy (epla), a public charter their reading when they enter sixth grade— education. Eager to learn more, Yanar took school for sixth-to-eighth graders in El which the majority of epla’s students Ganz’s courses on public narratives and around. Paso, Texas. “Ninety-two percent of our kids are—have a higher statistical likelihood organizing. “Marshall Ganz infl uenced the OMAR YANAR MPP 2010 are below the federal poverty line and 98 of being incarcerated than attending way I think about leadership and the model of percent are Latino. Many are immigrants, college. Yanar seeks to reverse this trend. leadership I developed for the school,” Yanar given our proximity to the border,” Yanar “What drives my passion is ensuring low- refl ects. Through Ronald Ferguson, adjunct says. “Look down our street and Mexico is income Latino students have the same lecturer in public policy and faculty chair of ‘‘ within eyesight.” shot at success as their middle- and Harvard’s Achievement Gap Initiative, Yanar PHOTOS COURTESY OF OMAR YANAR / ELPA YANAR OMAR OF COURTESY PHOTOS

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Airborne aintenance and Engineering ervices (m) used a grant from obsOhio to train technicians in sheet metal repair for aircraft, helping employment gro in Port linton ounty, Ohio (above). Enable nections, a developer and manufacturer of medical devices, is groing in incinnati (left).

BY ROBERT O’NEILL eye is managing director of strategy and business had changed his thinking. “The experience opened my eyes to the development for obsOhio, a private nonprofi t tasked with power of principled leadership and smart public policy,” he says. bringing jobs and investment to the state by attracting, and So he dove into the growing fi eld of public-private partnerships keeping, businesses. also known as P, working on projects such as infrastructure, For eye, obsOhio, which he joined right after graduating utilities, and energy, where the two sectors intersected. from the ennedy School, represented an opportunity to pursue “By 201, I was a vice president at an investment bank in his interest in public-private partnerships. The organization’s hicago, reenhill,” eye says. “With that role came fascinating THINK OF SEATTLE, AND WHAT COMES TO MIND? It might depend a little achievements so far include successful projects with more than 1,00 client work. But in my early 0s I consistently wondered, Should I on your generation (Gates and Cobain or Bezos and Macklemore), but companies since 2011, involving 10,000 new job commitments, continue on a traditional corporate path? Or was it time to chart a along with more than 00,000 jobs retained. But beyond the new path and move back to my home state of Ohio?” you get the point—a young city, on the cutting edge, with global tech impressive numbers, this has also been an opportunity for him to do eye came to the ennedy School with the specifi c idea of companies. The sort of place you might think about moving to. something with greater social impact after an early career spent in pivoting to public service. Stephen investment banking, and to help rebuild and reinvent his native state. oldsmith, aniel Paul Professor Now think about Ohio. That, in a sense, is what Andrew Deye of the Practice of overnment, mc/mpa 2015 works on every day. Not marketing or branding, had met eye while he was still in A banking and encouraged him to necessarily, although that is part of it. What he does is help build cities NEW attend the School. oldsmith and and communities and the state into something new. Seattle, after all, ATH eye cowrote articles on public- wasn’t always Seattle. In 1971, unemployment was 13 percent, and the private partnerships during eye's AFT AATIN FOM O, eye beat the well-worn path to time at . eye also used the economy was more steel and lumber than digital and coffee. Wall Street to work for Morgan Stanley. It was the usual investment experience to expand his expertise bankWall Street route, but with an important difference. He had beyond the fi nancial. He continued

OTO ORTEY O OBOIO ORTEY OTO interned at the White House’s National conomic ouncil, and it to feel a pull to Ohio. Andre eye mmp 201

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3 HKSmag_su18_features_12-33_Final.indd 28 8/7/18 11:52 AM 3 HKSmag_su18_features_12-33_Final_R2.indd 29 8/8/18 6:20 PM invested more than $20 million to fl atten and grade a former coal plant to make it more attractive to a company looking to build an ethane cracker—a sort of petrochemical plant—that could become a multi-billion investment in the area. In northeast Ohio, JobsOhio helped fi nance a natural gas pipeline that connects the area to a dependable (and more environmentally friendly) supply of energy. That access to natural gas means the area can now attract factories and facilities. Since it was started in 2011, Can you help me do Hamilton, Ohio, in the southeastern corner of the state, like JobsOhio has helped home- it faster? Can you help other towns along the Great Miami River Valley, was once an grown businesses and employers, important manufacturing center, making engines and paper and such as SelectTech, based in Dayton, Ohio (above). It has also me do it with lower risk? automobile parts. JobsOhio has helped the town bounce back after worked to attract new jobs to those industries faded. Barclays, the fi nancial group, has opened And can you help me the state, such as Seattle-based a 1,000-person customer service center. And a German company, online retailer Zulily, which has reduce the cost of Thyssen Krupp, has opened an auto parts operation. brought hundreds of jobs to doing it? ANEW EYE “There are three key things companies want to know when they're the Columbus region (left). thinking about where to invest: speed, risk, and cost,” Deye explains. “Can you help me do it faster? Can you help me do it with lower risk? And can you help me reduce the cost of doing it? So most of the A JobsOhio, created in 2011 by epublican Governor John Kasich incentives are a small part of the overall decision of where to put your programs we offer as JobsOhio address those three issues. As with the NEW and the Ohio legislature, was the perfect fi t. It performed the sort of manufacturing plant or new offi ce space.” properties we’ve helped revitalize, those companies are not going to STORY economic development that for decades had been carried out by a The focus has been on growth in nine industries, including wait years to have an old site remediated. We’ll help do that for them.” government department, which leaders in Ohio thought was up for energy, automotive, aerospace, fi nancial services, biotechnology, Those revitalization and transformation projects are not initiated JOBSOHIO HAS NOT BEEN WITHOUT ITS CRITICS. Opponents of the a reboot. The government retained certain functions, but the core of and information technology. Cross-sector strategies focus on areas just by new companies. JobsOhio solicits input from the regional nonprofi t have pointed to its lack of transparency, for example. Some the economic development piece was privatized and spun off into a where those industries can create new opportunities together: for development partners, along with existing stakeholders, before public offi cials, including the state auditor, have called for a more new entity. Six regional economic development groups, with which example, fi nancial services and information technology can help deciding what to fund. Its focus isn’t only attracting major industrial open view of the organization's books. Supporters of JobsOhio, JobsOhio collaborates, create further direct links to local offi cials. increase the state’s fi ntech footprint. players and multinationals. About 80 percent of its work is with including Governor Kasich, have said that public oversight can “You had a state government unit that existed for nearly 0 years, small and medium-sized businesses, either start-ups or fast-growing create burdens and delays that go directly against the grain of the and there had been a sea change in business over that time,” eye companies looking for somewhere to grow. And the organization’s nonprofi t’s nimble approach. says. “Had the state programs kept up Probably not. Had customer focus is also statewide, so it can boast of having activity in all 88 of Deye adds that having been only recently created, JobsOhio is service kept up Probably not.” AN Ohio’s counties, in both rural and urban areas. regularly explaining its unique operating model. He points to its high The state recruited a Silicon alley venture capitalist to start EMT transparency rating by GuideStar, the nonprofi t information service. JobsOhio in 2011 and set the organization on its path. A corporate LANT And he points to the numbers: More than $38 billion in capital board that refl ected a focus on P3 was created, with prominent investments and more than $30 billion in combined new and leaders from business and higher education overseeing the EYE OES NOT ACCEPT THE TEM ST BELT. He argues that it unfairly retained payrolls. The $169 million put by JobsOhio into revitalization organization. To insulate it from the ups and downs of state funding locks a whole region into a narrative that is out-of-date and is a term projects has leveraged an additional $2 billion in investments. cycles in downturns, economic development budgets are usually that never recognized the area’s economic diversity in the fi rst place. And JobsOhio has worked hard to bring the message to the among the fi rst on the chopping block, a bond issue in 2013 allowed But if there is a narrative, the closing automobile plant is a stock outside world, both domestically and internationally. Domestically, JobsOhio to purchase a 2-year franchise on the state’s liquor profi ts, character. And in 2008, General Motors closed its assembly plant in he says, the state’s economic turnaround is increasingly known. giving it budget security. JobsOhio utilizes this now-private funding Moraine, Ohio, where Chevrolet Trailblazers and other Ss were made. Ohio, as Deye can tell you, has the country’s 7th largest economy and to fulfi ll its purpose of creating jobs and improving economic well- More than 2,00 workers were idle and a massive facility was left empty. the 21st largest globally. Its fi scal discipline, including a $2.7 billion being. More than a dozen industry experts were recruited to talk to Working with industry experts, eye explains, JobsOhio strove reserve, has given it a strong aa bond rating. The state is home to 57 people from those industries as peers. The idea, eye explains, is to to make the facility attractive for redevelopment. In 201, Fuyao Fortune 1000 companies, more than 70 nyse-listed companies, and sell the business opportunity, not the government incentive. Glass, a Chinese company and one of the world’s largest auto nearly 50 nasdaq companies. “In that peer-to-peer model, we want to actually compete on glass producers, bought the plant, and in 201, the fi rst products, “That evolution from being among the worst ranked states for the basis of our business knowledge,” he says. “On Hey, here’s including car windshields, started coming off the production line. business to being in the top 10—that's another big part of the story,” a good place for your supply chain,’ or Here’s a good site for your The plant now employs more than 2,000 workers. Deye says. “It’s a meaningful part of what we do.” business,’ not Here's how much incentive we can give you.’ Because Two hundred miles to the east, in Belmont County, JobsOhio

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turbovote a c An Ecosystem O of Democracy T the simple act of voting, that most m direct way for most of us to pull the levers of ca E government, can be very complicated. Seth turbovote Flaxman mpp 2010 and Kathryn Peters mpp challenge 2010 want to change that. “Voting should fi t the way we live” is the slogan of Democracy Works, the nonprofi t they created after graduating from the Kennedy School, which is harvard now a sort of holding company for all the votes challenge ma initiatives they have launched. pc Flaxman and Peters (below) came up with the idea for TurboVote, their fi rst project, while they were classmates at the Kennedy School. Although both were politically active, being away from their homes and swamped by their busy school schedules meant they missed voting in several elections. TurboVote was created as a sort of concierge service for the voter—to take care of your registration, remind you where and when to vote, and get you all the paperwork you might need. But that was only the beginning of what Flaxman and Peters describe as the “ecosystem of democracy” that they began to build. If OTIN Ballot Scout TurboVote was “customer service,” (and SHOULD IT A 2012 study found that nearly million Democracy Works’ proof of concept), other TurboVote absentee ballots never made it to the initiatives looked to build out the back end. THE A It took TurboVote fi ve years to sign up voters they were supposed to reach, and The two worked with election offi cials to E LIE the fi rst million voters. That was in 2016. that nearly million never made it back create a database of all elections (from dog- They are now building to 3 million. from voters to election offi cials. Together catcher to president), build voter-notifi cation “Exponential growth” is not a term the with election offi ces across the country, systems, and track absentee ballots. team at Democracy Works uses, but its TurboVote Challenge emocracy Works designed a barcode Democracy Works has also launched an strategy of partnering with universities The last time voting turnout hit 80 system that would allow offi cials and ambitious new initiative: helping America get to and nonprofi ts is paying off. The percent was 1888: Benjamin Harrison Voter Information Project voters to track their ballots easily and 80 percent voter turnout by 2024. It’s a moon TurboVote app (the TurboVote name was and Grover Cleveland ran for president Where can you go to fi nd out what’s on accurately. shot, the founders realize, but then again, suggested by one of its founders’ hks (Harrison won); more than half the the ballot and where to vote? The web, thinking small was never part of the plan. advisors, Archon Fung, Winthrop Lafl in electorate (women, minorities) was of course. But until recently, there was McCormack Professor of Citizenship and disenfranchised; and Civil War pensions Harvard Votes Challenge no standardized, reliable, and verifi ed Self-Government) lets a voter register, were one of the hot campaign issues. Harvard ennedy School is launching source of information. The oting request an absentee ballot, and Flaxman and Peters want to get back its own moon shot. The initiative, part Information Project was born to provide Government Notifi cation Tool generally stay up-to-date on deadlines, there—not to 1888 but to 80 percent by of a cross-niversity effort, aims to that service. The Pew haritable Trusts Starting last fall, voters in ouglas ounty, elections, and more. Schools at Harvard 2024. They’ve launched a campaign have registration of eligible domestic and oogle started it. emocracy Works ansas, took part in a pilot project that can get dedicated portals, allowing them and formed partnerships with some of students at the School reach 90 percent. now provides the “tech geeks” working allowed them to receive text and email to slightly customize their users’ the country’s largest corporations. Turboote is helping the School reach the engine room. The data is available notifi cations for upcoming local elections. experience. Security and privacy are an Universities have also taken up the its goal by providing an exclusive hks at the website et to the Polls and via emocracy Works collaborated with the important focus. challenge. registration portal. a widget and sms tool. ouglas ounty clerk’s offi ce on the project.

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EVENT Silence and Then A Roar

“IT’S IMPORTANT that we have these moments of silence to remember these individuals, but I think it’s just as important to speak up,” said David Hogg at a Forum event in March. “We have been silent for too long as a nation; we’ve allowed these things to continue for too long.” Hogg was talking about remembering the 17 people who were shot to death by a 19-year-old at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in February. But he was also talking about the need to honor the victims’ STEWART MARTHA memories by doing more than holding a respectful moment of silence. Hogg and five others—Matt and Ryan Deitsch, Emma MARTHA STEWART MARTHA Gonzalez, Cameron Kasky, and Alex Wind—are among a group of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students and alumni at the forefront of a growing national movement calling for gun law THE BUZZ reform. In March, they visited Harvard just days before they led a major march for gun control in which hundreds of thousands of students across the country participated, in Washington and in hundreds of other locations across the country. Before the Forum event at which they spoke, the students met with President Drew Faust and students and faculty from around Harvard. They came “When the chips are to listen and to absorb as well as to speak. Kasky explained how down any president he reacted after he began seeing the predictable reactions to “This is a loud country. the tragedy in the media and on social media. “I was listening to “If something in your “The deeper “Whoever says there is defending the interest “Language is heart says ‘I want to conversation we’re ... We are loud about the news, and I was looking at my phone and seeing what was power, and our nothing good in Africa the things that we of this country is going going on, and I started to realize I’ve seen this before,” he said. be part of rebuilding going to have to have does not get that to realize that the “What happens is we get two weeks in the news, we get a bundle language needs to a really important isn’t the bad apples, care most about, of thoughts and prayers, everybody sends flowers, and then it’s reflect our values.” from the context of politics among them.” transatlantic relationship over. ... We said no, you’re not controlling our narrative, you are city,’ we have a it’s the apples in the not telling our story.” Johanna Maska, CEO of Global history.” Former Attorney General Eric is essential. ” — Situation Room, at a Forum in spot for you.” middle.” Tanzania’s Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, Holder, at a Forum in May on his David O’Sullivan, EU ambassador to March on the push to pass an Mike Duggan, mayor of Detroit, Dahlia Lithwick, a legal reporter president of Tanzania from 2005 to confidence that the country can the United States, at a Forum in April Equal Rights Amendment to the at a Forum in April on revitalizing at Slate, at a Forum in April on the 2015, speaking at a Forum in April reach common ground despite on the relationship between Europe

U.S. Constitution. the city. #MeToo movement and the media. with other former African leaders. STEWART MARTHA the “noise.” and the United States.

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Deep Roots those policies is too often overlooked, they say, leading, for global economy have affected countries practice; developing a logical pedagogical sequence; creating a core example, to building a school without ensuring that a high- with lagging economic performance, such curriculum; integrating followership and leadership; distinguishing ow Slavery Still Shapes Southern olitics capability education system has been established. To spur more as Mexico. between leadership and management; crafting a code of ethics; aya Sen, ssociate rofessor of ublic olicy vidit charya, effective functioning, they propose an approach called problem- Rodrik differentiates between policies and providing certifi cation of competence on completion of the Stanford niversity atthew lackwell, arvard niversity driven iterative adaptation da, which begins with “generating that don’t spill over national borders, such program—after a high standard of competence has demonstrably locally nominated and prioritized problems” and proceeds as those relating to education, and those been met. Kellerman writes that “professionalizing leadership is not “iteratively to identify customized best fi t’ responses.” that do demand global rules because rocket science.” But it does require that we reconceive leadership— MAN STDIES SEEK TO NDERSTAND race relations and political Constructing problems out of the outcome is shared by all nations— start thinking of it as a profession that entails proper preparation as attitudes by focusing on current demographics and efforts to persuade conditions is the fi rst step in da, they such as policies on climate change. And necessary precursor to unremitting dedication. voters. Such analyses may yield valuable information, but they miss a write, which forces policymakers and then there are policies somewhere in crucial infl uence on people and communities history. reformers “to ask uestions about the between, which may need to be regulated at the international level The authors of Deep oots draw incumbent ways of doing things, and depending on whether the costs are borne primarily domestically or Can We Solve the Migration Crisis? on a concept called “behavioral path promote a search for alternatives that across borders. He also advocates for growth policies for the future, Jacueline habha, rofessor of ealth and uman ights, dependence”—ideas, norms, and behaviors actually offer a solution.” In a novel including increased public investment and green industrial policies, arvard T.. Chan School of ublic ealth Jeremiah Smith Jr. passed down through generations of introduction to the potential uses of that will be sustainable in a global environment. Economists have ecturer in aw, arvard aw School djunct ecturer in ublic families and local institutions such as PDIA, the authors cite ewis and Clark’s underestimated the fragility of the current form of globalism, he schools and churches—as well as empirical olicy, hks. 1 expedition to traverse the nited writes, and new solutions are needed to help those excluded by it. data to posit that the legacy of slavery still States westward. In that case, the drives political attitudes in the South. They approach succeeded by focusing on the document that southern whites who live in THE GLOBAL POPULATION OF PEOPLE forcibly displaced from their problem of establishing an all-water trade route to the Pacifi c and Professionalizing Leadership communities where slavery was prevalent homes now exceeds 65 million. And every minute, driven by a mix iterating by adapting the explorers’ path along the way. arbara ellerman, James cregor urns ecturer in are more conservative and hostile toward of forces that include confl ict, natural disasters, and economic The authors advocate “experimental iteration,” a process ublic eadership policies designed to help African-Americans, shown, for example, in privation, 24 more people join them. of identifying and putting into action multiple ideas to solve the differing attitudes within the cities of Greenwood, Mississippi, and This is unquestionably a crisis, both problems. In addition, they advise on where and how to get for those caught in the wave and for those Asheville, North Carolina—the former a town that once claimed the title THE LONGTIME AUTHOR AND EXPERT on leadership has in recent the needed authority to build state capability through the da on whose shores it is breaking. But before “cotton capital of the world” and relied on slave labor, the latter a small writings critiqued both leadership and the leadership industry. process, including adopting a communications and persuasion she asks whether, and how, we can solve trading town where slavery was a relative anomaly. In her new book, Kellerman homes in on a problem she argues strategy. Mobilizing agents to build state capability may not this crisis, Bhabha asks what kind of crisis The divergent attitudes among southern communities fi rst took shortchanges people learning to lead: Leadership is treated as be easy, they say, but many people seek a new way of doing it is. Sweeping through history recent and shape during and in the aftermath of the Civil War, the authors an occupation as opposed to a profession or even a vocation. development and are eager to embrace the challenge. ancient, Bhabha establishes the relative write, when emancipation incentivized the economic and political She points out that leadership has no widely recognized body of frequency—if not normalcy—of these great suppression of African-Americans, who formed a large portion of the knowledge, and no core curriculum or skill set considered essential. dislocations. As recently as the 1970s, labor force. Even though the civil rights era led to a narrowing of the Straight Talk on Trade Moreover, unlike the professions, it has no generally accepted more than 10 million were displaced by euality gap between whites and African-Americans, these political metric, no clear criteria for qualifi cation, and no license, credential, deas for a Sane orld Economy civil war in Pakistan and 3 million more attitudes persist, they say. Although some may be skeptical that accreditation, or certifi cation considered by consensus to be Dani odrik, ord oundation rofessor of International following confl ict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. In the 1990s, the institution of slavery continues to have such a lasting effect, the legitimate. The result is that we “cannot distinguish those who are olitical conomy 2 million were displaced following the dissolution of the former authors write, contemporary factors can go only so far in explaining the qualifi ed to lead from those who are not.” Yugoslavia. differences on the basis of region. Indeed, they note, the differences Kellerman fi nds most American Bhabha examines the deep drivers of this great movement of have remained consistent for the past 1 years “This is an example of leadership programs are “hasty and FOR RODRIK, THE STRAIGHT TAK BEGINS with a rebuttal of the nearly people, and possible solutions, such as a $100 million violence- how an institution can lead to a political geography that remains long superfi cial” with one outstanding unanimous credo of his fellow economists that untrammeled free prevention program in Honduras supported by the United States—a after the demise of the institution.” exception: the military. The American trade is a universal good and anyone against it is a protectionist relatively inexpensive but effective way to reduce the violent crime military educates its leaders, trains its “barbarian.” Their reluctance to acknowledge any negative driving so many people northward. leaders, and develops its leaders. This conseuences of trade has hurt their credibility, he writes, and However, a crisis cannot be viewed through a single lens—“the uilding State Capability triad Kellerman concludes is key—and in has helped opponents seize on an alternative narrative that is perceived threat to the already present community”—and Bhabha Evidence, Analysis, Action this sequence. First leadership education; itself often wrong. In response, the author promises a balanced underlines its moral and ethical dimensions. “Because we share not then leadership training; and fi nally, att ndrews, dward S. ason Senior ecturer in International perspective on trade and other areas. only the surface of the earth but a common, deeply intertwined set leadership development. Development ant ritchett, rofessor of the ractice of International Arguing for the relevance of the nation-state rather than the of interests and an ultimate dependence on each other, the duties Kellerman acknowledges that most Development and ichael oolcock, ecturer in ublic olicy “global commons,” he contends, “We need a pluralistic world we owe strangers have to be capacious, clear, and sustainable.” economy where nation-states retain suffi cient autonomy to groups and organizations are not positioned to replicate military fashion their own social contracts and develop their own economic pedagogy. However, she writes that every group and organization THE ATHORS ARGE THAT not even the best policy prescriptions will strategies.” He discusses the problems of Europe when it sought can adapt and adopt some of its core principles. These include: alone spur sustainable development. The process of implementing to implement a single unifi ed market and how the demands of a making explicit the connection between leadership theory and

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Seven years strategic projects in health, media, law, alumnidirectory history, U.S. foreign policy and its cultural ago, I moved to Georgetown University to environment, arts innovation, etc. where and intellectual foundations, and U.S.– teach in the Security Studies Program, and opportunities exist for leveraging present Latin American relations. His major work will retire from that program at the end of and emerging leaders and ideas across was The American Sense of Mission and this semester. borders. Our network includes over 35,000 International Law, published in 1967. fellows in 170 countries, with anchor programs year-round at Schloss 1971 Leopoldskron (the castle in Salzburg, 1961 Sonia Ingram mcrp writes, “I and a group Austria, made famous by the fi lm “The Peter Barratt mcrp writes, “In my eighties collaborated and convinced The Riverside Sound of Music”). Visit SalzburgGlobal.org and have taken on the task of designing Church in New York City to divest its to fi nd out more. Offi ces in Washington, the Museum of Grand Bahama. I spent portfolio out of the largest fossil fuel London, and Salzburg.” most of my professional life as a planner exploration and production companies. Xavier Suarez mpp writes, “My son, Francis in the Bahamas.” I am advising a church to develop a new Xavier Suarez, followed in my footsteps and mixed-use real estate acquisition and was elected mayor of the City of Miami last control an entire city block. I recommended November. He and I served simultaneously 1966 bankers to acquire acquisition fi nancing. in the city commission and county Wayne Sherwood mcrp worked for 15 As a landowner, I am recommending commission, respectively, for fi ve years years for various planning consultants and carbon sequestration, natural resource prior to that. Francis’s wife, Gloria, just gave government organizations in Massachu- development and marketing projects. I am birth to a daughter in April of this year; she setts preparing local and regional plans. developing a program to support people is our 10th grandchild. I currently serve on “Spent 25 years as research director who want to pursue strategies that build the Miami-Dade County Commission, which for a national organization lobbying for community resilience.” has 13 county commissioners and handles affordable housing in Congress. Continue a $7.2 billion budget as well as the world’s to put out an e-mail newsletter from home largest passenger port and the airport with about low-and-moderate-income housing 1974 the largest number of airlines.” programs and needs. Currently on the Roland Castaneda mpp writes, “I served as board of Montgomery Housing Partner- general counsel to the Dallas Area Rapid ships in Montgomery County, Maryland, Transit Agency from 1994 to 2002. I was 1976 and work on local affordable housing founder and chairman emeritus of the Phil Scanlan mpa has had a career issues. Live in Takoma Park, Maryland.” Texas General Counsel Forum (tgcf.org), — spanning diplomacy, public policy, a statewide peer-to-peer networking Stephen Stephen Trachtenberg mpa writes, “My education, global enterprise leadership, organization for 600-plus corporate Trachtenberg most recent book on leading colleges and and NGO entrepreneurship. Phil and Julie general counsel that focuses on law mpa 1966 universities was just released by the Johns Singer Scanlan have seven children and department management practices. Hopkins University Press. I was the only seven grandchildren. Through President Currently, a founder and CEO of the Cyber member of our class that showed up for George H.W. Bush in 1992, Phil founded the Law Consortium, a statewide two-tiered the 50th reunion. bipartisan Australian American Leadership networking organization for in-house legal Dialogue (AALD), described as “the most and information security personnel who creative and productive exercise in private report to C-level executives. A distinct 1967 diplomacy in Australian history.” Phil was program is designed for general counsel, Douglas Johnston mc/mpa, after Australian consul general in New York from C-level executives, and boards of directors graduation, served another three years in 2009 to 2013. In 2014 Phil founded the New that focuses on governance-level strategic nuclear submarines, then seven years in York Global Leaders Dialogue. He serves on issues.” government (last job as deputy assistant private equity advisory boards in London secretary of the navy). Returned to the and New York and chairs Lifejourney Kennedy School as founding director of 1975 International. its fi rst executive program (in national Susan Leicher mpp writes, “While and international security). Also taught continuing to work professionally as a and completed a PhD in political science. 1977 social policy analyst for a range of New After 12 years as EVP/COO of CSIS, founded William Ballenger mc/mpa writes, York City philanthropic, nonprofi t, and the International Center for Religion & “Since 1977, I have served as director of government institutions (most recently, Diplomacy to bridge religion and politics the Michigan Department of Licensing and the New York Women’s Foundation), I have in support of peacemaking. Among Regulation, state racing commissioner, somehow managed to write a novel, Acts Douglas’s publications: Religion, the and publisher of a subscription newsletter, of Assumption, that will be published Missing Dimension of Statecraft (Oxford, Inside Michigan Politics. I now publish sometime in early 2019. Watch out for it— 1994) and Religion, Terror, and Error: U.S. TheBallengerReport.com and do a lot of TV More than gradates it is a splendid read!” oined the rans of S alni Foreign Policy and the Challenge of and radio and public speaking.” folloing oeneent Spiritual Engagement (Praeger, 2011).

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James Sheffield mc/mpa has a new author 1978 40th Reunion 1981 website at DickSheffield.com. “You can Richard Broinowski mpa writes, “Since Lisandro Bril mpa is progressing with read more about my first novel, Lasso the Harvard, I’ve been Australian ambassador venture capital investing in tech companies Moon, and my upcoming one, Cables From to Vietnam, then to the Republic of Korea, from Argentina that target global markets in a Restless Heart, plus some selected short then to Mexico, Central American republics, big data, the internet, and biotech. He also stories. Let me know what you think and and Cuba. I was also general manager of actively participates in the business and please share with others. With gratitude.” Radio Australia from 1990 to 1992. Since public policy agenda to foster innovation, retirement in 1998, I’ve been an adjunct entrepreneurship, and venture capital in 1982 professor at University of Canberra, then the country. — Sydney University, sending media students Teresa Cader mc/mpa writes, “I served as William “Bill” Hamilton hksee has a new Mary Kurkjian mpp 1978, to work as journalists in Asian and Middle the first associate director of the Innovation book out titled The Wit and Wisdom of honored for her decades of Eastern countries. I’ve written four books: in Government Program at HKS, funded by William Hamilton: The Sage of Sheepdog support to the School, has spent A Witness to History (MUP, 2001), Fact or the Ford Foundation. I then received a Hill. Available now in large-print paperback a lifetime dedicated to making Fission (Scribe, Melbourne, 2003), Driven: poetry fellowship from the Bunting Institute and Kindle at Amazon, the book is a special government work better. A Diplomatic Auto Biography (HarperCollins, at Radcliffe. I’ve published three books of collection from his more than 2,000 Central 2009) and Fallout from Fukushima (Scribe, poetry and won awards from the Poetry View newspaper columns and articles Portrait by Martha Stewart 2012). I’m at present working on a fifth book.” Society of America, the National Endow- spanning his 35-year writing career. Over — ment for the Arts, the Massachusetts these years, Bill has shared interesting William “Bill” Cultural Council, the Bread Loaf Writers views from his extensive experience in the Hamilton 1980 Conference, and the MacDowell Colony. military, government, and politics. He was hksee 1981 William Collins mcrp writes, “Cheers My poems have appeared in The Atlantic, inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall to all my MCRP classmates. I’m retired Slate, Harvard Magazine, the Harvard of Fame. to North Attleboro, Massachusetts, after Review, and elsewhere. I’m working on a HKS FUND OUTSTANDING ALUMNI AWARD an academic career at California State memoir and a new collection of poems. University. I continued to develop the — My husband taught at HKS for 28 years. Rural Planning Program at California State Greatest pleasure is found We have two grown daughters.” after leaving the GSD. Later I shifted my I Like Making Government Work Eric-Fenn Elbot mc/mpa writes, “The ‘82 career emphasis to anthropology and watching my two kids Potato Heads’ 2018 Election ‘October archaeology, receiving a second PhD at Mary Kurkjian mpp 1978 establish their own families Surprise Subgroup’ in spring applied UC Berkeley in 2005. I taught archaeology Schelling’s brilliant game theory simula- in California and excavated in the Middle and otherwise thrive. tions to false flag motivators,340 East. Though I retired in 2013, I continue air-defense sorties, and U.S. power grid “I like making government work,” says Mary Kurkjian mpp Forty-four of them, to be exact. This is the number of states to teach online classes and volunteer James McGuinness mc/mpa 1981 blowback in a U.S./Israeli/Saudi war on 1978. That’s why she decided to focus her career on improv- where Kurkjian has worked to improve public services as a teaching in local high schools. I was Iran. We are also supporting President recently elected to the Town of North ing public policy through management. consultant at various companies with government clients. Phillip Karig mcrp is managing director of Lawrence Bacow MPP 1976 PhD 1978 to Attleboro Planning Board. I wish the best After graduation, she worked as an analyst for Consumers She has seen technology change from being a small part of Mathelin Bay Associates LLC, an interna- establish an ongoing war-prevention to you all.” tional consulting firm serving companies backchannel project with Tsinghua Union, but realized she wanted to be more of a manager. government operations to being a critical element for serving Roger Sharpe mc/mpa reports that more and investors in the plastics industry. University, based on Graham Allison’s She soon returned to Cambridge when she was offered a job people well. Mathelin Bay launched PlastiTrail.com in than 80 friends and family gathered recently excellent Destined for War: Can America at the Kennedy School to help establish a new executive During her time at the Kennedy School, Kurkjian valued at the Lincoln Cottage in Washington, D.C., May as the first blockchain-enabled service and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap education program for leaders in state and local government. her connections to classmates and the faculty. “Only 45 for his 70th birthday. Roger is a former in the plastics industry. (perhaps on neutral turf at Harvard’s new It was in this position that she met former Governor students were in the program at the time,” she remembers. North Carolina state senator and university Joe Leitmann mpp is now serving on the Johannesburg Center). Join the convers- professor. The seated luncheon was held in boards of Bikes for the World, the U.S. ation at [email protected].” Michael Dukakis, who had come to teach at the Kennedy “We were in the same classroom all day, and the professors the room where President Lincoln drafted chapter of The International Emergency Robert Griffiths mpp writes, “I retired from School after losing his bid for reelection in 1978. He told came to us. We all became really good friends.” One of her the Emancipation Proclamation. Tributes Management Society, and the University the State Department Foreign Service in her that all of the action was at the state level of fondest memories is organizing a conference on women in were offered by historian and Presidential of California’s Humanitarian Network. He 2016, but continue to be involved in Medallion recipient Gabor Boritt of Gettys- government. Inspired by Dukakis, she public service in 1977, one of the fi rst of its kind at Harvard. continues to lead work on resilient recovery matters foreign. After moving to Utah and burg; Alexandria Mayor Allison Silberberg; — went to work for the Commonwealth of It drew 350 people and more than 20 speakers. “I wanted to and urban resilience at the World Bank’s building (literally) a new home, I have and Jim Warlick, business owner of White Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and been teaching political science courses on I want to help Massachusetts, focusing on human hear what women had to say about working in and with House Gifts. Vermont poet Peter Money Recovery. China and Southeast Asia at the University services and unemployment programs that government, and organizing the conference with my wrote of the honored guest, “One leads by of Utah and Brigham Young University. My other students loving kindness, by teaching what is good, James McGuinness mc/mpa writes, had an impact on lots of people. But, over classmates was its own growth experience.” wife and I continue to spend part of the by sympathetic joy in any season.” “Following mandatory retirement in 2015, much like time, she realized that state government Kurkjian feels that annual giving, regardless of the I was recalled to the bench and sat for an year in Thailand.” Patti Early White mpp writes, “We moved to didn’t reach the velocity she craved. So, amount, is important to help current and future students additional two-and-a-half years. Finally Mohan Guruswamy mc/mpa writes, “I am I was helped. Virginia after 22 years in London. It has been she left for a position at Unisys, a benefi t from a Kennedy School education. “My time at the stepped down for good last August. Down- pretty much retired in the nice southern an interesting homecoming. I continue to sized to Cambridge, enrolled at the Harvard Indian town of Secunderabad. I write a technology company that consulted with Kennedy School was really transformative and made possible serve on boards of cultural organizations— Institute for Learning in Retirement, travel widely read weekly column, and am very state governments. Here, she says, “I went from one by generous fi nancial assistance in the early days of the the English National Opera—and I have just whenever possible, and am working on frequently a guest on television panel been elected to the board of the National problem to another. I was always working in a new area, a Kennedy School,” Kurkjian says. “I want to help other becoming a more proficient artist. Greatest discussions. I am also involved in two Museum of Women in the Arts. We are new state, a new subject area. I never got bored, and that’s students much like I was helped.” Kurkjian began donating Use the Alumni pleasure is found watching my two kids Track 2 dialogues between India and China reconnecting with friends from HKS in the Directory to contact establish their own families and otherwise and India and Pakistan. When I am not what I loved. And I could see that I was helping state in 1986, and has given to the HKS Fund every year since D.C. area.” your classmates. thrive. Save for bearing witness to our traveling, I indulge in my passion for governments.” 1990. “It is a way of giving back to the students who followed shockingly dark national politics, life wildlife photography and tiger spotting. hks.harvard.edu/ me,” she says. indeed is good.” To find out more, visit my Facebook wall.” alumnidirectory

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different thoughts, feelings, and government town management. I will be groups explained the eye-contact training promote solutions through Global Ocean experiences. I got my poetry booklet, residing in retirement with my wife, Mary to members of the Douglas City Council at Trust and its 501c3. I spoke at the Economist Use the Alumni Heights of Sublimation, printed this year. Sortal, in Newburyport, Massachusetts, a public meeting!” World Ocean Summit in Mexico and the Directory to contact The name Harvard clicks wherever I go!” where we would be happy to have visitors. Ocean Risk Summit in Bermuda. The United your classmates. Barbara Lamont mc/mpa is running a My cell is 603-630-7721 and e-mail is Nations negotiations for a new High Seas Dick Tofel mpp since 2013 has been multi-lingual contact center for government [email protected].” Biodiversity Agreement and the Paris hks.harvard.edu/ president of ProPublica, of which he agencies in more than 35 states, including Agreement offer important opportunities alumnidirectory was the first employee back in2007 . The Michael Smith mc/mpa is working in the Job Corps, various state health and to address the challenges faced in inter- investigative news nonprofit has won four the Office of Strategic Initiatives in the social service agencies, and housing national waters and coastal habitats.” Pulitzer Prizes and been a finalist for five president’s office at Rhode Island College; authorities. “Putting my public administ- others. It now has a full-time staff of more serving as president of the Cranston, ration degree to good use!” Felisa Tibbitts mpp writes, “I’ve been living than 100 and an annual budget of $24 Rhode Island, City Plan Commission; and in New York City for a few years and loving Andrea Waldman Lockwood mpp writes, million. ProPublica had more than 34,000 president of the Rhode Island College it! I teach international education develop- “I’m currently deputy assistant secretary donors in 2017. Alumni Association. ment at Columbia, a nice follow-up to my for Europe, Eurasia, Africa, and the Middle time as a Human Rights Fellow at the HKS Roy Watson mc/mpa writes, “After more East at the U.S. Department of Energy and Carr Center. Would love to catch up with HKS than 40 years running a successful law served as acting assistant secretary for 1985 classmates in the city! [email protected].” practice specializing in U.S. immigration international affairs for nine months during Ken Davies mc/mpa writes, “Ecstatic to law, I have accepted a position with the the transition. I do a lot of traveling, trying share that our daughter Emma Elisabeth Department of Homeland Security, USCIS. to open markets for U.S. energy technology — Davies will be joining the HKS MPP class of It is most enlightening now working on the and strengthen U.S. energy security. I still 2020 this autumn, following her two years We recently were at the ‘other side’ of the table. My practice was see a fair number of classmates but it would in the Peace Corps in rural Guinea, West almost exclusively employment-based be great to see more!” Kennedy School for the Africa. Her parents, Ken and Margrethe, immigration, which has now become a continue to reside in Jinja, Uganda. Warm first time in years and were focus of USCIS. My two children graduate greetings to all classmates and friends.” this year from UMass Amherst. One looks 1986 impressed by the terrific to grad school as a physician’s assistant. Tom Gardner mc/mpa is still a professor Clarke Camper mpp writes, “I live with my new buildings—and how The other aspires to be a foreign service of communication at Westfield State wife, Naomi mpp 1997, and three teenage officer with the Department of State. My University, and now a proud grandfather. kids in Chevy Chase, Maryland. We recently happy and engaged the wife, Chela, a native Venezuelan, teaches “Daughter and son-in-law are both with the were at the Kennedy School for the first students seemed! — David Kirk mcrp writes, “After Harvard, Hill Advisors, a client and employee at a local private school. Both children Department of State. Son about to graduate time in years and were impressed by the Alumni gathering I spent a year studying in Australia on insight and analytics firm I founded speak Spanish as a first language.” from Clark, then on to a master’s there in terrific new buildings—and how happy and Clarke Camper mpp 1986 for Reunion found a Rotary scholarship, then worked as a in 2006.” environmental science and policy. Happily engaged the students seemed!” a transformed planner for the Atlanta Regional Commis- married to Karen in Amherst, Massachusetts, Elliot Gordon mpp has joined JAMS, the Jim Doane mc/mpa writes, “I have been campus, including sion until just after the 1996 Olympics. I 1984 tending chickens and an aging dog, and nation’s largest private dispute resolution retired from the foreign service since March the new Wexner then went to University of Michigan Law Lucie Edwards mc/mpa is currently based holding fond memories of the Mid-Career provider, as a mediator and arbitrator, with 2000. I consulted with the Department of 1987 Building. The School and returned to Atlanta in 1999 to at the Balsillie School of International Class of 1985.” an emphasis on health care, employment, State for 10–11 years and taught Junior Reunion was work as an attorney at Troutman Sanders Affairs. “I teach public policy and internat- Beth Knobel mpp PhD 1992 writes, “I’m and business litigation. Jim Gruber mc/mpa writes, “The HKS MPA Officer Training for six of those years. I the largest ever, LLP. I have been a partner here since 2006. ional affairs at Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier happy to announce that my new book, The program is a lifelong gift. Besides meeting worked at our embassies in Bogota, with more than My practice focuses on land use, zoning, Karen Handmaker mpp writes, “For nearly universities. My research explores the use Watchdog Still Barks: How Accountability my wonderful wife, Patience, at the Divinity Asmara, and Baghdad, usually for two 850 alumni in development and redevelopment, and a year, I have been at 4sightHealth, of science and technology for the poor, Reporting Evolved for the Digital Era, came School, the classmates I met in 1984 are months of temporary duty, and my focus attendance. other governmental issues. I married Lori founded by our classmate David Johnson with a particular focus on initiatives to out in March from Fordham University still good friends and colleagues. I will soon was management issues and narcotics Leland, a planner and urban designer, in mpp. While on different paths in health support the ‘bottom billion’ in Africa and Press. It’s a study of how American news- — retire from Antioch University New England control. I moved to Rehoboth Beach, 1993, and we have two daughters, one of care pretty much since we graduated, we Asia. Still very active in development papers are fulfilling the watchdog role Beth Knobel as a professor and chair of the Environm- Delaware, 10 years ago and am enjoying whom is a freshman at Michigan (Go Blue!) are now ‘having a blast’ combining our advocacy, notably with Partners in Health despite significant challenges, and it is mpp 1987, ental Studies Department. Throughout 34 playing golf, reading, and enjoying my and the other a high school junior. We live experience and perspectives to highlight a Canada. I left the foreign service in 2009, very much inspired by my studies of press- phd 1992 years of working locally and globally on grandchildren.” in Decatur, Georgia.” better way and support organizations that with great memories of my appointments politics at the Kennedy School. I also have democracy building, civic sector capacity want to be part of solving U.S. health as Canadian ambassador to Kenya, South Nadine Hack mc/mpa was shortlisted by been promoted to associate professor of Linda Niessen mpp is currently serving as building, and environmental conservation, care’s ailments. Looking forward to Africa, and India. Tom, our three dogs, and Ethical Corporation as Responsible CEO communication and media studies at dean and a professor at Nova Southeastern the wisdom, values, and norms of HKS seeing our classmates at our 35th I savor our free time at Doggie Heaven, our of the Year with the CEOs of Patagonia, Fordham University in New York. I still also University College of Dental Medicine in inform nearly all my work, my values, and reunion soon!” cottage in the Gatineau Hills.” Danone, Accenture, Yes Bank, Globe help CBS News with its Russia coverage.” Fort Lauderdale, Florida. “mpp Class of my ability to contribute. Thank you for this Telecom, and Firmenich. “It was particularly 1982 are welcome to visit!” Ron Heifetz mc/mpa writes, “After Fred Martin hksee was in Seoul, South gift. We are now starting a New Hampshire Javier Trevino-Cantu mpp was appointed meaningful as all the other CEOs head graduation, I stayed on at the Kennedy Korea, in April as the kickoff speaker for vineyard!” Mexico’s deputy secretary of education in multinational corporations.” School to develop courses in leadership. the Abraham Lincoln Society of South 2014. “For more than three years, I have Alison Hughes mc/mpa writes, “Retirement 1983 35th Reunion It’s been a real blessing to teach Korea. “My book, Abraham Lincoln’s Path Alasdair Roberts mpp became director of been working on the design and implemen- from paid work has meant a continuity of Rita Leitel Bartczak mpp writes, generations of students from all over to Reelection in 1864: Our Greatest Victory, the School of Public Policy at the University tation of education reform in Mexico. It has volunteer work. Both equally joyous. Thank — “Negotiation captured my attention the world and to watch the School grow is being used by members. Koreans are of Massachusetts Amherst in September been the most ambitious transformation you Ronnie Heifetz for inspiring me in Fred Martin in my second year as an MPP student in every way.” interested in Lincoln as a path to their 2017. “My newest book, Can Government of our education system in decades. I am 1984–85 with your leadership ideas and hksee 1984 learning from the best—Jim Sebenius, ultimate reunification and development. Do Anything Right?, was published by Polity implementing a new education model for Muhammad Siddiqi mc/mpa writes, “For insights. They have carried me through all Larry Susskind, Roger Fisher. I applied Thought this might interest the Senior Books in March.” K–9 based on five pillars: new curriculum, the last 10 years I have been teaching these years. I transferred your ideas to my new skills representing Pan Am flight Managers in Government Program, espec- pedagogy and materials; new school system — management subjects to MBA/MPA graduate students during my university Torsten Thiele mpa writes, “The deep ocean attendants in tense labor negotiations. ially as I am a graduate of that program.” with better infrastructure and stronger Alasdair Roberts students at School of Management teaching years. Now I share them with high provides the largest living system on our Getting an MBA in 1989 led me to my leadership abilities for principals; profess- mpp 1986 Sciences, QA University, in Islamabad. David Owen mc/mpa writes, “I retired from school students who live at the Arizona– blue planet but is increasingly stressed by newfound love—marketing and market ional development of teachers based on It was exciting to share my experiences local government management service at Mexico border. They especially enjoy human activities. My efforts continue to research, studying customers, and apply- merit; quality inclusive education with from around the world with the students— the end of May, after 11-and-a-half years participating in the eye-contact exercise focus on researching ocean governance ing the science of research to the art of equity for everyone; a new governance of cultivating a global perspective. I have as town manager in Wolfeboro, New you taught to many in our class of 1985. challenges at the London School of marketing. You can find me at Chestnut the education system.”

also been writing poems, reflecting Hampshire, and 35-plus years in local MARTHA STEEWART Last year one of the high school student Economics and the IASS-Potsdam and to

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is a contributing author to the national law (tenure track) at a local private college 2017. He is a board member of many profit refugees have experienced and how they 1988 30th Reunion Climate-Smart Conservation guide (NWF) in the Boston area. Currently, he spends his and nonprofit organizations, including 1990 have been received since resettlement in Volker Baas mc/mpa writes, “Wishing you and serves on her town’s sustainability time teaching and serves as president of The National Gallery and IMMA. After a Bob Cole mc/mpa reports that after more the United States. a joyful reunion. I wanted to share with you commission. She lives north of San McLaughlin & Associates, a firm he nine-year battle with cancer they lost than 40 years of reasonably successful Linda Killian mc/mpa is working on a that I am still enjoying the legal world as Francisco with her wife and two children. established in 2009. their married daughter, Caroline, in 2013. public service, he and Janice are fully history PhD at American University focusing partner with the law firm TaylorWessing in Caroline had been a strong public advocate retired in Loveland, Colorado, near their Rosalina De la Paz Magat mc/mpa writes, Chris Sturgis mpp is living in Santa Fe, on the origins of American democracy. Frankfurt, Germany. I still maintain strong for cancer research. In late 2013 Helen set sons, who are in Denver. “We make full “My experience at HKS as an Edward S. New Mexico. Her consulting firm MetisNet ties to Harvard as president of the regional up TheCarolineFoundation.com, a single- use of the cornucopia of outdoor recrea- Larry “Bud” Meyer mc/mpa was featured Mason Fellow broadened my horizon and (“metis” means “local knowledge”) has Harvard Alumni Club for the past eight purpose Irish charity to raise funds to pay tion amenities and travel frequently, in a November 2017 Columbia Journalism my network. It opened up many opport- worked with foundations big and small in years. Life is offering much more, so I am the salaries of additional cancer researchers mainly throughout the western United Review article on the role of personal — unities, which propelled me to rise quickly shaping strategies. For the past eight also engaging as a member of the super- in Ireland. Almost $1 million raised to date, States. We are disturbed at what passes philanthropy in news nonprofits. He is a Robert Dodge to the top of the corporate ladder. I retired years, the focus has been on developing visory board of a German Premier League and new trial successes imminent. for ‘governance’ of our beautiful country cofounder and the chair of Foothills Forum mpa 1990 as a full-time economist/banker in 2010. next-generation education. She cofounded soccer club. My spare time I spend with my and occasionally yell at the TV. We hope in rural Rappahannock County, Virginia. However, I ended up being busier than CompetencyWorks to help public schools Natalie Jaresko mpp is serving as the family in our vacation house at the Baltic Servant Leader Patriots regain control of ever before in consultancy, socio-civic learn about and make the transition to executive director of the Financial Roy Norton mc/mpa writes, “I’m a Sea shore, going sailing and mountain our government soon. Would be thrilled community activities in my home city of mastery-based learning. Oversight and Management Board for Canadian diplomat, inspired by the HKS biking as often as I can.” to hear from any of our classmates!” Pasig, Metro Manila, Philippines, where I Puerto Rico, established by the U.S. experience (including being named a Eduardo Rodriguez Veltze mpa writes, Laura Bailey mpp writes, “September sit on the board of the Pasig Peace & Order Congress in response to the debt and Robert Dodge mpa had his seventh Littauer Fellow) to complete a PhD “Public service can be an exciting journey. 2017 found me back in D.C. as lead social Council, Pasig Development Council, Pasig fiscal crisis in Puerto Rico. Taken together nonfiction book published, Tempest Tost: (albeit at Johns Hopkins, not Harvard). Looking back 30 years after HKSG, life development specialist after eight years Anti-Nuisance Board, Countryside Builders with the humanitarian and infrastructure The Refugee Experience Through One Subsequent to HKS, I represented Canada exceeded most ‘case studies.’ Trained as a overseas leading World Bank programs in MPC, Bankers Institute of the Philippines, devastation created by Hurricanes Irma Community’s Prism. It’s about what for 14 years (not consecutively) in the lawyer and bureaucrat, I was appointed to Armenia and Papua New Guinea as country Public Relations Society of the Philippines, and Maria, the challenges are deep and United States (eight in D.C., including as the Supreme Court, from where, unexpe- manager. I’m returning to work I’m really Zonta International, and Rotary International. broad. “All my experience and education ctedly, I became president of Bolivia in committed to—development in fragility and are being utilized daily to work toward “Directory Ad 1” Size: 5.1 x 6 in stormy times. Survived collateral damage conflict situations—and loving it! Lots of solutions that enable Puerto Rico to — from political exposure and returned to chances to connect with HKS grads in my rebuild and grow again.” teach law. For the last five years I was back professional life, and happy to be closer Survived collateral damage in service as ambassador of Bolivia to the Ross Love mpa writes, “After a term as to my core mpp 1988 pals. Outside of work, from political exposure Netherlands, posted as an agent before the chief of staff to the premier of Western I’m investing my time with family and International Court of Justice in a challeng- Australia, I have been at BCG for 25 years, MAKE YOUR NETWORK friends (beach, mountains) and making and returned to teach law. ing case about Bolivia’s access to the the last three as head of the New York incremental progress in two books at Pacific Ocean. Hopefully the journey will office after heading the Australian busi- various stages of disarray and rewrites.” Eduardo Rodriguez Veltze mpa 1988 be completed at a good port!” ness, and before that BCG’s global airline Carol Becker mc/mpa retired from the State practice. Now, more than ever, we all need Department in 2003. “The last 10 years to work to reinforce the increasingly fragile were at passport services, where I ended Taher Farahat mc/mpa writes, “Dear 1989 bonds between doing business with integ- up in IT and facilities management. Since colleagues, my career in diplomacy and Sue Battle-McDonald mpp is enjoying new rity and excellence, doing government with RELEVANT then I volunteered, until recently, most foreign affairs included postings in Vienna, responsibilities at the Maryland Department honor and purpose, and doing philanthropy notably at the National Archives on Civil Brasilia, Tokyo, and a tour as consul general of the Environment, has survived both early with innovation and effectiveness. I have Find alumni who will make a diff erence in your world. War records. Still living in Alexandria, in Shanghai. I served as ambassador to breast cancer and the hardest years of been lucky to work in all three arenas from Virginia, only 40 minutes away from all Kuwait and then the Netherlands. I retired single parenting, is relishing having her BCG - and look forward to more from wher- children and grandchildren. Life is good!” last in April. Unfortunately, I was diagnosed youngest at home for two more years, and ever! Best wishes to you all.” early this year with cancer of the colon. I has recently fallen in love with contra John Carlson mpp serves as chief of Ali Webb mc/mpa writes, “I retired from am now under chemotherapy, which sadly dancing. She is also extremely psyched staff of the Financial Services Information the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in July 2017 prevents me from our reunion. But I wish about the great seat she has to see Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC), a after 20 years. My final job was director everybody participating lots of fun and Springsteen on Broadway on October 13. 7,000-member nonprofit that focuses on wonderful memories. Hoping to see you at of Michigan, with an annual grant-making ensuring the resilience and continuity of our next reunion. Wish you all the best.” Jim Brett mc/mpa, New England Council budget of about $65 million. Since then the global financial services infrastructure president and CEO, was recently honored I’ve founded Ali Webb Strategies and I’m against cyber and physical threats. He Anne Hamre mpp writes, “I’m still working by the American Academy of Develop- doing some college-level teaching as well. previously served in a variety of leadership at the Minnesota legislature for the House mental Medicine and Dentistry with the Check out my recent NonProfit Quarterly roles at BITS, Morgan Stanley, the U.S. DFL Caucus (DFL is the Minnesota version of organization’s 2017 Katie Beckett Award. blog post on the seven deadly sins of Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Democrat). Because the legislative session Jim was presented with the award at the philanthropy. I’ve also expanded my travel the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, ran through May 21, I couldn’t make it to the academy’s annual conference in Houston. writing as The Indulgent Traveler, and look and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. reunion, but I traveled to Boston/Cambridge The Katie Beckett Award is presented for my first novel to be published, Killer He has been married to Mona Yacoubian in early June—my first trip back in 30 years annually to the person who best person- Politics. My husband, Keith, and I are mpa 1989 for more than 30 years and has (!). How did three decades just zip by??” ifies the spirit and passion of the Beckett returning to Windmill Point in Virginia three adult daughters. John McLaughlin mc/mpa retired from Family. Jim is a former chairman of the after two decades in Michigan.” President’s Committee for People with Ellie Cohen mpp has been CEO of Point state law enforcement and joined the Joseph Wilson mc/mpa remains active in Intellectual Disabilities and is currently Blue Conservation Science, based in federal government conducting national anti-fossil fuel and local politics around chairman of the Governor’s Commission Update your profi le and California, since 1999. She and Point security investigations for the United energy issues. “Helped push utility in our on Intellectual Disabilities. Blue’s 160 scientists strive to reduce the States. In his last state assignment, he was area into halting pipeline plans in favor of chief of the fugitive unit and a member of Use the Alumni impacts of climate change, habitat loss, Dermod Dwyer mc/mpa resides in Dublin non-fossil fuel alternative. Also active, explore the Alumni Directory today. the FBI Bulger Task Force. John oversaw the Directory to contact and other environmental threats to wildlife with his wife, Helen, and nearby son Denis. as a former high school principal, in gun Whitey Bulger fugitive investigation. Bulger your classmates. and people while developing nature-based Dermod is executive chairman of The law reform.” hks.harvard.edu/alumnidirectory solutions. Ellie represents Point Blue at the was apprehended in 2011 by John’s former Convention Center Dublin—awarded the hks.harvard.edu/ UN’s global climate change body (UNFCCC), squad. John accepted an appointment as title of World’s Best Convention Centre in alumnidirectory speaks regularly on nature-based solutions, assistant professor of criminal justice and

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minister at the Canadian embassy), six in Barry Sloane mc/mpa writes, “I’m proud to Canada, joining dots where I know people, the Midwest (consul general of Canada report that my freshman son, Marshall, is including Boston of course. Then a month or in Detroit, then Chicago). Worked six years rowing for the Harvard heavyweight crew so in South America (my first time) on the in Toronto for the Ontario government team, 43 years after I last launched from way home. After that I’ll be in Wellington. (assistant deputy minister for international the boathouse.” Look me up! The best time to visit is mid- relations; ADM export development). January to mid-April, second best October to Jacquelyne Weatherspoon mc/mpa writes, Currently chief of protocol of Canada, mid-December, unless you’re a skier (then “In between my first love, working on getting based in Ottawa, responsible for all our it’s mid-July to mid-September).” women elected, I am co-teaching at the prime minister’s and governor general’s famed Harlem Children’s Zone, Promise international relations activity.” Academy 2, and volunteering for Black Girls — Code! What a gift to be working with the next Safeguarding the Chemical 1991 generation of leaders. I am so happy to see so many folks post 2016 elections Weapons Convention is Julie Ames mc/mpa writes, “Loving my new supporting the next generation. Excited to role as vice president of communications at an issue for all of us, and be in this space until the next campaign!” Biocom, California’s large life science trade something a lot of HKS association. Chris (rear admiral, U.S. Navy, Evelyn White mc/mpa is happily in Halifax, — retired) is thriving at General Atomics and in Nova Scotia. “Writing this and that, includ- graduates are in a position he United Arab Emirates Europe all the time. Kids are both in college, ing recent feature profiles of the first black to actively support! alumni networ was honored on the East Coast and in Scotland. Please woman judge in Canada (Corrine Sparks) or its wor bringing alumni be sure to call if you are in sunny San Diego. and the incomparable singer/activist Buffy Peter Wilson mpa 1992 there together. oard Got to see John Duncan mc/mpa last Sainte Marie. All good.” members include let to right summer, and going to see Marianne Lee Nasim Zaidi mc/mpa writes, “In India, I iang uo , Gayane mc/mpa in June. Love my classmates!” Charlotte Pierce mc/mpa writes, “I enjoy worked in the provincial government of rowing on the Charles River in my single Ariian mmp , Alyaa Joanne Sadler Butler mc/mpa writes, “Last Uttar Pradesh at the policy and implemen- sculling shell, in between looking for new Al Mulla mmp , aufi job was in George W. Bush administration tation level in surface transport, providing publishing projects in alternative education, ahim mpp , and Shafi at the Labor Department. Since then, I have accessible, safe, and affordable means of and publishing children’s and travel titles at Hussaini . been writing an op-ed column for the Daily transport in the public and private sectors, my independent press, PiercePress.com. Caller website (founded by Tucker Carlson). and in the reduction of poverty levels The Peeragogy Project (peeragogy.org) also I feel fortunate to have the opportunity as through rural and agriculture development. welcomes contributions for The Peeragogy a conservative woman to address many At the federal level, I worked to provide Handbook v4, the public domain project economic and policy issues. HKS taught affordable, accessible, and safe air transport currently in development for a January 1, me the importance of how to speak my and development of airport infrastructure 2019, publication date. I recently took on mind. Google ‘Daily Caller’ and ‘Joanne and ICAO level. Later, as chief election com- the job of managing editor at the online HS AUM EGAGEME AAD Butler’ to see my work. Agree or disagree missioner of India, worked on conducting creative magazine FictionalCafe.com, where with my views, but I think you’ll find my free, fair, and credible elections for 850 I invite classmates to submit short works of work worth reading.” million voters over 1 million polling stations literature, poetry, and audio, video, and with 1.5 million electronic voting/audit trail The Strong Sense of Belonging Ray Campbell mpa writes, “I have been visual art.” machines—a satisfying job.” back in Massachusetts state government L. Seth Statler hksee was recently selected HS Alumni etwor o the United Arab Emirates for the past two years, first as the acting as the director of government affairs for the executive director of the Group Insurance 1992 National Fire Protection Association after Commission, and for the past 18 months as Mary Josie Blanchard hksee was selected completing a 30-year federal career that the executive director of the Center for The HKS Alumni Network of the United Arab Emirates was In addition, the network holds a gala each spring, when as the Department of the Interior’s director included service as the head of legislative Health Information and Analysis, the state’s formed just three years ago, but it has already had a big Kennedy School alumni and dignitaries from across the for Gulf of Mexico restoration. She coordin- affairs for NASA and for U.S. Customs and lead agency for health data and analytics.” ates and advises the department on policies Border Protection. Statler also serves as impact on the more than 80 alumni who live and work in region gather to celebrate a particular Noreen Dunne mc/mpa writes, “I am no and programs related to Gulf restoration treasurer of the National Fallen Firefighters the UAE. theme. This year, it centered on the — Foundation. longer in formal teaching of undergrads efforts as a result of the Deepwater Horizon Gayane Afrikian mc/mpa 2005, president of the network, statesmanship of the late Sheikh Zayed and postgrads, in Darjeeling, India, but am oil spill. Peter Wilson mpa writes, “I moved from says, “The strong sense of belonging and community service bin Sultan al Nahyan, founding leader We give back to into a mentoring program for dedicated Mark Brimhall-Vargas mpp is working as the UN in New York to be the United teachers in neighborhood public schools, among our alumni in the Emirates plays an important role in of the UAE. each other, to the the CDO at Brandeis University and living Kingdom’s ambassador to the Netherlands to bring about sustained changes and our personal and professional growth. We give back to each “In a short period of time, the in Saugus, Massachusetts. “I’d love to in September 2017. Here in The Hague, I’m country we live in, develop value systems in a pervasively reconnect with local HKS people.” also the UK permanent representative to the other, to the country we live in, and to the School.” HKS Alumni Network of United Arab corrupt, unequal, and hopeless educat- Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical The alumni network, one of 26 such groups that have Emirates has developed a tradition and to the School. ional environment. Not from merely Chuck Flacks mpp relocated to Santa Weapons—a convention increasingly under been offi cially recognized by Harvard Kennedy School, holds of branded landmark events,” says altruistic but realistic motives, if we want Barbara, California, in 2015. He is director of threat, in Syria, Iraq, Malaysia, and now the genuine development to take place in poor programs for PATH, a housing-first-focused UK itself. The Hague is also the home of several signature events each year. An annual policy Afrikian. For its work to advance connections among alumni areas like mine. The focus is on women homeless facility. His daughter Olivia is many international courts—the legal capital conference, “Policies for the Future Dialogue,” this year in the Emirates, the HKS Alumni Network of the UAE this and youth. The aim: to support good graduating from Barnard College this year, of the world. Ensuring accountability and centered on China’s belt and road initiative. It featured year received the School’s annual Alumni Network people to do something, not get paralyzed and his son Maurice is continuing his safeguarding the Chemical Weapons alumni and other experts from the UAE and China discussing Engagement Award. by the not-so-good that is endemic. The education this fall. In May, Chuck married Convention is an issue for all of us, and Use the Alumni method: quarterly inputs. The hope: that an old and dear friend, Charla Bregante. something a lot of HKS graduates are in a topics that ranged from new areas for economic growth to Directory to contact this legacy will be passed on.” position to actively support!” China’s policies in the Middle East. The gathering was held your classmates. David Greig mpa writes, “I will finish as strategy director in the New Zealand Ministry in April in Dubai. hks.harvard.edu/ of Transport in August 2018, then do a two- alumnidirectory month road trip in the United States and

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on the international policy agenda, to collective impact, fighting human 1993 25th Reunion accelerate progress toward sustainable 1994 trafficking, reducing recidivism, strength- Xavier Briggs mpa writes, “I’m currently development goals. John Hlinko mpp is living in Washington, ening trust in U.S. elections, improving vice president for Inclusive Economies and D.C., where he runs LeftAction, an online refugee resettlement, and tightening col- Mia MacDonald mpp writes, “Brighter Markets at the Ford Foundation, based in activist community fighting for progressive laboration in global health supply chains. Green, the New York City–based nonprofit New York City, with a broad global and candidates and causes (when he is not Clients include private sector, universities, ‘action tank’ I started in 2008, is turning 10. domestic portfolio. After HKS, got a PhD and procrastinating with Words with Friends). nonprofits, and the U.S. government. (Time flies!) Our work in global climate, spent nearly 20 years either as a professor Looking to grow private sector client base.” environmental, and development policy Theo Lubke mpp was elected chair of the (HKS, then MIT Urban Studies and Planning) processes continues to expand, and we New Jersey SEEDS Board of Trustees in Richard (Rick) Garcia mc/mpa served as or serving in the U.S. government, most have a great set of partners working on food March. Theo joined the board of SEEDS in an elected regional transportation district recently in the Obama White House. I systems’ sustainability and the impacts of 2013, and was appointed vice chair in board member and two-term Denver city moved to Ford in 2014 for a new leadership industrial animal agriculture in a number 2015. New Jersey SEEDS is a nonprofit councilman, and more recently was a adventure and because times like this of countries. I serve on the boards of the that provides educational access to senior executive in the western region’s demand that we go all out. Look forward to Green Belt Movement–U.S., the Culture high-achieving, low-income students. office of the U.S. Department of Housing teaching and writing again at some point & Animals Foundation, and the Africa Since SEEDS’ founding in 1992, nearly and Urban Development in Colorado during and helping others develop creative social Network for Animal Welfare–U.S. I wrote a 2,500 scholars have graduated from its the Obama administration. He currently change strategies, doing more media work biographical essay on Wangari Maathai, programs. Learn more at njseeds.org. resides in New York City with his wife and and creative storytelling. We need culture, environmentalist, Nobel laureate, and my two daughters. meaning, and public will for justice.” Andrew Yarrow mc/mpa writes, “My new mentor, for Key Thinkers on the Environment book, Man Out: Men on the Sidelines of Elsa Chen mpp and her husband Ken (Routledge, 2018). American Life, will be published by the Tsunoda mpp 1994 live in Los Gatos, 1997 John Park mpp writes, “I’m a professor of Brookings Institution Press in September.” California, with their sons K.C. (17) and Mark Bonchek PhD writes, “In 1997, a PhD Asian American studies at UC Santa Barbara, Owen (15). Elsa is vice provost for academic about the Internet and political participa- my wife, Gowan, and I have three daughters, affairs and professor of political science at tion seemed quite obscure. Not anymore! and they’re all about to start college. I’ve 1995 Santa Clara University. She also serves on Now my focus is on how to help leaders published four books, all on immigration law Leela Padmini Batuwitage mc/mpa has the executive board of the American develop the mindset to understand the — and policy, and I’ve been a professor for three master’s degrees, in engineering, Society of Criminology. nature of exponential change and design Andrew Yarrow about 18 years. I’m sorry to miss the 25th science, and public administration. Her the strategies that can achieve real trans- mc/mpa 1994 Katia Hetter mpp is now a senior producer at reunion for our class, but I do wish everyone PhD is on “Sustainable Production and formation in strategy, organization, and CNN Digital, focusing most on travel and the well, and if ever you’re visiting Santa Barbara, Consumption.” She has been actively Yasukazu Fuse mc/mpa has published Jamie Smarr mpp is senior vice president — engagement.” occasional story about books, music, and please do let me know.” involved in sustainable development 17 books so far. “The books are mainly on at the National Housing Partnership (NHP) The new social parenting. She also co-chairs the Online issues representing Sri Lanka in many UN Patrick Coleman mc/mpa writes, “I history and philosophy. Three more are Foundation, where he leads its affiliate stairs got a Victor Ramos mc/mpa writes, “I served as News Association’s Student Newsroom. Her international and regional conferences and attended the Kennedy School via a Pickett coming soon.” program. The affiliate program engages in workout as more the secretary (minister) of environment and family is based in Atlanta, where her 10-year- also representing the Asia and the Pacific Fellowship in Criminal Justice and a Robert joint venture development to create or than 850 alumni natural resources of the Philippines from Michael Jandl mpa, after various positions old Girl Scout plays every team sport offered region on several occasions. She is C. Seamans Fellowship in Technology and preserve affordable housing with tenants’ gathered for 1995 to 1998. Among many initiatives with with different IOs and NGOs, has been in her neighborhood. presently working as a freelance consultant Public Policy, hoping to influence positive organizations, faith-based institutions, and Reunion in May, my team, I am most proud of giving back working since 2007 as a research officer in environmental policy and management change in justice. I accepted the position other community-based organizations making it the Daniel Jaouiche mpp writes, “Over the past to the indigenous peoples more than 2.6 for the United Nations Office on Drugs after retirement from the Ministry of of principal deputy director of the U.S. nationwide. largest ever. 25 years I’ve been working in the strategy million hectares of forest lands, covered by and Crime (UNODC). He works primarily Environment in 2011. Padmini believes that Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice consulting arena with energy and resource 180 certificates of ancestral domain. This on quantitative research on crime and learned societies should sustain efforts Assistance, and focused on issues still companies. Lisa and I just celebrated our was institutionalized with the passage of criminal justice and runs the annual UN toward complete synchronization to see critical today: racial profiling, excessive 1998 20th Reunion 20th anniversary. We’ve moved several the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act of 1997. Crime Trends Survey. As part of his job, he a healthy planet with smiling people. use of force, mental health courts, crisis Nicolas Ducote mpp writes, “Since leaving times across the United States and to Upon retirement, I set out to plant trees that supports countries to improve the quality intervention, hate crimes, and victim HKS, I cofounded CIPPEC, the premier London. We have two daughters. Alexandra are vulnerable to extinction in the wild. It is David Manero mpp just finished up two of their crime and justice statistics and services. I’ve continued this work in the think tank in Argentina and one of the top is a rising sophomore at Tulane studying now a living museum of native trees—the rewarding and challenging years at the to carry out surveys on victimization, private sector for more than 20 years. three in Latin America, which I directed for public health and pre-med. Samantha will first in my home province. I am still active in U.S. Embassy in Moscow as the senior corruption, and access to justice. He Currently, I am vice president of child 10 years. After a fellowship at Yale, I went spend her junior year of high school on a NGO work advocating good governance and defense official. “Next stop is London (in travels frequently around the world and welfare, justice, and behavioral health at into politics, holding office as undersecre- yearlong exchange to Germany through a sustainable development.” case any alumni are in the area!) as the would love to hear from his classmates to Westat. Thanks, all, for enduring tary of government in the City of Buenos Department of State scholarship funded by quest continues for improved international meet up for a coffee. Sally Tyler mc/mpa writes, “I’m still friendship, and teaching me much.” Aires. In 2013, I ran for office in my the U.S. Congress and Bundestag. We’ve relations. Hope all are well!” sticking with the union, as senior policy Christopher Nicholls mc/mpa enjoyed hometown city of Pilar, and got elected to recently relocated back to Charlotte, North Rachel Flynn mc/mpa writes, “After HKS, analyst at the American Federation of Joshua Mendes mc/mpa asks, “Do you the chance to return to Harvard during his the local council. Two years later, after a Carolina, where I work with Ernst & Young in I became a planning and building director State, County and Municipal Employees. know what are the world’s worst humani- sabbatical leave in the fall of 2016 as a brief fellowship at Stanford, I ran for mayor mergers and acquisitions.” in Lynchburg, Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, Will be 20 years next year. I got a law tarian crises? Do you know how much they Fulbright Scholar and visiting professor of Pilar and got elected, so I am currently and Oakland, California. In between Peter (Piotr) Dmochowski Lipski mc/mpa degree a few years back, and use it to are being covered in the news? Those are of law at Harvard Law School, co-teaching serving my first term until 2019, when I Virginia and California, I did a brief stint runs the European Satellite Telecommuni- represent individuals in asylum cases. two key questions I am seeking to address comparative corporate law, finance, and intend to run for re-election. I am married in Abu Dhabi, consulting for the Urban cations Organization EUTELSAT IGO with My interest in the politics and culture of in this project: humanitariannewsproject. governance. The second edition of to Laura, a journalist and fact-checking Planning Council. While in Oakland, I headquarters in Paris, as its executive Southeast Asia has led me to publish both org. Any input or collaboration with fellow Securities Law, Chris’s sixth book, was activist, and we have three kids.” was asked to join FivePoint, a real estate secretary, elected by 49 member states. He scholarly and popular articles, including HKSers on this project would be most published in March 2018. In addition to his development company (an offshoot of Sybel Galvan mpp writes, “I spent my first is the censeur on the board of directors of “Of Temples and Territory: The ICJ’s Preah welcome!” position as professor of law at Western Lennar), to oversee a large mixed-use years after graduation working at Mexico’s Eutelsat S.A. Piotr is also a UN commis- Vihear Decision and Implications for University in London, Ontario, he serves as development in Concord, California. I was Central Bank. From 2002 until 2012, I was sioner on the Broadband Commission for Regional Dispute Resolution,” and articles chair of the board of directors of the Mutual then approached by Google to join their appointed counselor for Mexico’s Ministry Sustainable Development. Working under in New Mandala, ANU’s Policy Forum, and 1996 Fund Dealers Association of Canada, the Use the Alumni real estate development team. So I’m now of Finance at the OECD in Paris, where I had the chairmanship of Paul Kagame, the The Mekong Review. Have loved seeing Patrick Corrigan mpp writes, “My national self-regulatory organization for the Directory to contact working and living in Sunnyvale, California the opportunity to be involved in a lot of president of Rwanda, and Carlos Slim, the classmates in cities around the world. consulting firm is growing. Recent topics distribution side of Canada’s mutual fund your classmates. (in Silicon Valley). HKS afforded me oppor- negotiations regarding best practices ITU/UNESCO Broadband Commission aims Say hello anytime.” include strategic planning, governance and industry. tunities I never could have imagined, and setting and design of public policies. In hks.harvard.edu/ at boosting the importance of broadband boards, leadership, coaching, project I’ve been fortunate to be able to apply and 2012, I was appointed director general of alumnidirectory management, positive psychology,

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analysis and statistics at CONSAR, the deserves a forever family. I reside in Toronto Beverly Lindsey mc/mpa writes, “I have less importance than a large amount of Cynthie Tin-Oo mc/mpa writes, “I am forward to swimming, hiking, gym, and National Commission for the Savings for (where I’ve been since 2002) with my room- retired from government and politics but resources allocated. What a puzzle! In happily living in beautiful Santa Barbara yoga. I also intend to travel and hope to Use the Alumni Retirement System. I have been doing a lot mate Belle, a Cane Corso I rescued in 2016. still answer the call of interesting projects 2014, a huge corruption mechanism was with my husband, Dr. Dan Fishbein, and visit some Kennedy School classmates.” Directory to contact of research regarding pensions systems as when available. I serve on the board of unveiled. Eighty politicians were convicted, involved in the Harvard Club of Santa your classmates. Roger Goodman mpa is completing his Tim Mathern mc/mpa was endorsed for well as enhancing collaboration with other IREX, an international NGO engaged in including former president Lula, who was Barbara activities. Once or twice a year, sixth term in the Washington State the North Dakota Senate campaign of 2018. pensions institutions. Mother of two education and civil society exchange sentenced to 12 years in prison. Moving we’ve been going back to Myanmar, hks.harvard.edu/ Legislature, serving as chair of the House First elected in 1986, this grandfather of children.” and programs promoting education, forward, I want to keep on assisting the providing pro bono technical assistance on alumnidirectory Public Safety Committee. “Brokered an seven recognizes continued need to change leadership, information, and youth. My country making better investment decisions public health programs. Please contact me Stephanie Geosits mpp is the executive historic agreement this year between police the world! four grandchildren occupy most of my time toward sustainable development.” if you are in southern California. Looking director of Burlington Youth Soccer Club, and under-represented communities to and attention, and I enjoy extensive travel forward to meeting classmates in 2019 May Juan Carlos Pitarque mc/mpa writes, “I one of the largest amateur sports clubs in reform the law related to the use of deadly with my SO.” at the reunion.” have been in the private sector in Ecuador Canada. “Located in the Greater Toronto force and to expand police training in 1999 for the past 15 years, as CFO of a local food Area, 6,000-plus players of all ages and de-escalation. Held up as a national model Charles Mannix mc/mpa retired as a Marian Bayer mc/mpa is the founder of the manufacturer (PRONACA). I have also set up abilities enjoy the ‘Beautiful Game’ with us for building trust between police and the colonel from the U.S. Air Force’s Judge Institute of Spirits, a thought leader shifting 2000 a foundation, The Ecuador Institute, so as to year-round. Through soccer (and for fun!) community and reducing needless lethal Advocate, is associate dean and COO our paradigms from the material to the John Beatty mc/mpa is a trial attorney and get back to public policy issues. I miss my I’ve attended women’s and men’s World shootings by police.” emeritus of Dartmouth Medical School, energy perspective. Her book, Keep Talking, partner at Kramer Diloff Livingston and dear friends from the Kennedy School years, Cups and Summer Olympics, with trusty and is engaged in private law practice in Jenny Korn mpp is a fellow at the Berkman They Can Hear You, came out in June. She Moore in New York City, where he represents and do hope to see you all at the next travel companions Luxman Nathan mpp, northern New England. Klein Center for Internet and Society at created the Spirit to Spirit Communication victims seriously injured by negligence and reunion.” Naheed Nenshi mpp, and Eric Henson Harvard University. Arthur Navarro mpa was nominated by program that guides and challenges medical malpractice. John and Whitney love mpp. I volunteer with the Adoption Council Lisa Screeton mpa writes, “Greetings from Harvard University Alumni to lead a discus- participants to experience life from the spirit spending time with Kennedy School friends of Ontario, which believes that every child beautiful Natchez, Mississippi! I have sion on art and conflict at the Gathering on perspective. Marian uses her remarkable who come through New York City or their accepted a dream job as director of music the Arts Conference at Harvard University in blend of academic, professional, and meta- farm in the hills of Connecticut. for St. Mary Basilica in one of the most 2017. Since then, he has been selected to physical work to teach our business and beautiful and friendly cities in America. I — lead a high-level discussion on art and community leaders the art and science of Debra Isaacson mpp has also continue to advocate for Alzheimer’s Marian Bayer conflict at the U.S Air Force Academy’s War, tuning in to the greater existence. The Green been promoted to senior research funding and to be a resource for mc/mpa 1999 Literature & the Arts Conference in Colorado Zone, our least understood and most under- associate dean for full-time family caregivers struggling to in September 2018. In addition, Arthur is utilized natural resource. degree programs and provide end-of-life care for their loved ones. producing a motion picture feature film Bill Carlson mc/mpa was appointed to the student affairs at Harvard Gus the Wonder Dog continues to hold my about the story of the Third Secret of Fatima City of Tampa’s Charter Review Commission, Kennedy School. Debbie, heart, and there is plenty of room for and Sister Lucia. Arthur is also leading a which is proposing changes to the city’s who previously was the friends to come for a visit! Much love and multi-focused effort to produce the first-ever charter for the fi rst time in 20 years. associate dean in the same department at warm wishes to all!” GET World Epilepsy Forum at the United Nations HKS, had been in the role of senior in 2020 with Columbia University Medical Cristina Lopez mpa writes, “I am leading associate dean on an interim basis since School and CURE. the launch of the Mayor’s Scholars Program, — last fall. She has worked for the School in Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh’s free Naheed Nenshi mpp, in October 2017, was various capacities since 2004, including as I miss my dear friends community college scholarship program for re-elected to his third term as mayor of director of the MPP program. “As senior all Baltimore city youth who graduate from from the Kennedy School CONNECTED Calgary, Canada’s third-largest associate dean, Debbie is instrumental to public high schools. The Mayor’s Scholars municipality and one of the world’s five supporting and enhancing the experience of years, and do hope to see Program is part of the mayor’s strategies to best cities to live in, according to the students at the Kennedy School,” said Dean create pathways for all youth, promote you all at the next reunion. Economist. Naheed was named best mayor Doug Elmendorf. “She is a crucial member economic development, and reduce in the world in 2014 and has dealt with of my leadership team. Debbie oversees a violence. The promise program is modeled Juan Carlos Pitarque mc/mpa 2000 Engaging with other HKS disasters both natural and economic department of more than 50 staff members, on other innovative promise initiatives while championing inclusion, resilience, and has signifi cant strategic and nationwide, adapted to the needs of economic development, and community. operational responsibilities, supervising Suzi Siegel mpp says her fi rst book, Tiny alumni can enhance your Baltimore’s youth. The program partners He also wears purple every day admissions, fi nancial aid, the registrar’s New York, is a guide to the smallest things with Baltimore City Community College and (combination of red and blue, get it?), offi ce, student services, degree programs, in the biggest city. The tiniest standouts in will welcome students to a summer bridge ability to make an impact on kisses a lot of babies, and tries to figure and the offi ce of career services.” Debbie the Big Apple range from a baby dinosaur at program, which started in June.” out better ways to fill potholes. hopes that alumni will continue to refer the Museum of Natural History to a dinky Joe Mulligan mc/mpa is concluding his potential students to the Kennedy School. basketball court in the Village that has issues that matter to you. Peter Owen mpp married his partner of 10 three-year fellowship in the Transformative She says, “Alumni know what it takes to be produced some of sport’s biggest legends. years, Robert Wood, on March 11 near their Development Initiative (TDI) with Mass- successful here, so please recommend the Other tiny stars include the NYPD’s smallest — home in Arlington, Virginia. Peter has Development, a quasi-public state fi nance Kennedy School to the passionate change- bomb-sniffi ng police dog (45 pounds), the Suzi Siegel enjoyed a 20-year career in federal intergov- agency that is seeking innovative ways to makers in your world!” shortest fi rst name (just one letter!), and an mpp 2000 ernmental relations and legal policy. He hks.harvard.edu/get-connected maximize the Commonwealth’s investment itsy-bitsy topless bar (1,200 square feet). also volunteers on a local board of zoning in “Gateway,” or post-industrial, cities. TDI Her website is tinynewyork.com. appeals (a subject of his PAE). Robert is a Robert La Mont mc/mpa writes, is a new start-up that partners with public, freelance opera conductor and directs his “I am fi nishing a USAID program in the private, and nonprofi t sectors in downtown own D.C.-area opera company, UrbanArias. Philippines. Working with the Supreme urban districts. The TDI Fellows provide 2001 Court, we have automated the courts in 10 Luis Fernando Pfeil mc/mpa writes, “I have robust technical support, including consul- Paul Becker mc/mpa, upon retirement cities and are working on two more. This been practicing in Brazil what I learned at tants, experts, academia, technology, and from the Navy as rear admiral in 2016, case management system now covers about Harvard, i.e. analyzing investment projects application of the latest trends in planning, founded and has served as CEO of a Learn about your alumni benefits at 40 percent of the national caseload and considering economic, environmental, and real estate, and placemaking strategies to successful business, The Becker T3 Group, is already reducing backlogs and case social perspectives, despite tremendous provide additional capacity and advance the a consultancy and motivational keynote hks.harvard.edu/alumni-benefits processing times. By the end of this year I resistance. During the left-wing city’s and its residents’ goals. speaker services platform. Paul connects will semi-retire to Hawaii with my husband, government, the criterion for investment military leadership principles of “teamwork, David. I may do short-term work, but I look approval, generation of income (NPV), had tone, and tenacity” with corporate pillars of MARTHA STEEWART

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“performance, productivity, and profit.” He 2002 labor, health, elections, and the also shares a unique “patient’s perspective” constitution, among other things. However, with health care audiences as a stage four Hyung Du (Daniel) Choi mc/mpa writes, my most rewarding role is to be husband to bone marrow cancer survivor. “Thanks to the numerous case studies, Carmen Gloria and father of three great kids leadership discussions, and practical (and expecting a fourth!!). Marissa Jones mpp married William policy courses, I could become a public Friedman on August 20, 2017, at the Chicago servant from being a journalist. In addition — History Museum, in the company of good to my two-decade career as a journalist, my friends and classmates. The couple met at Harvard degree seemed to draw much Moving to Germany in the wedding of classmate Heather Rieman attention from the public sector. Firstly, I mpp to Thaddeus Furber—an unexpected gift was offered the position of deputy minister August, which will make of Kennedy School friendships! in the prime minister’s office—a position six countries since responsible for public relations planning. Rick Minor mc/mpa serves as the CEO of graduation after Honduras, Second Harvest of the Big Bend, a food After that job, I was picked up by the bank that delivers 7 million pounds of food president’s office as secretary of public Cuba, England, and Iraq, — affairs. Lastly, I became the spokesman for asmin adamsee Forbes annually to food-insecure families and not counting a few years individuals within an 11-county area. He is the National Assembly. It was an mmp , honored for also a candidate for the Leon County unprecedented career path, which has in the States. her volunteerism, works to Commission, with a primary election in spanned the most important cores of create forums from which August. He and his wife, Jessica Lowe- executive and parliamentary branches.” James Aguirre mpp 2003 people can affect change. Minor, have a four-year-old daughter and Ernest Goodson mc/mpa just landed a Portrait by Martha Stewart are expecting another child in November $80,000 grant to address the issue of Jack Schnirman mpp, previously Long 2018. They also have a horse, two dogs, and access to orthognathic surgery for people Beach City manager, was elected Nassau a Siamese cat. with cleft palates and facial deformities. County comptroller. He vowed to bring John Monaghan mc/mpa writes, “Hi Success requires state legislation and independent reform, transparency, and Friends, my first novel, Head On: NYPD meetings to persuade insurance accountability to Nassau County upon Takes on ISIS, a fast, fun read published by companies to comply with the law. taking office in January. Schnirman ran on a Global History Publishing Co., highlights the platform focused on fixing the county’s ULIUS . AITT MMORIAL ALUMNI OLUNTR AWARD shared humanity with Muslim ‘terrorists’ 2003 15th Reunion finances and its contracting process, (‘Ibrahim’s revelation’ is based on real life).” contending that demands for reform have James Aguirre mpp writes, “Sorry to miss long been ignored. He prioritized Koji Oki mpp writes, “Hello, I hope you this year’s reunion as we wrap up our three modernizing the county’s financial When You Get People Together guys are doing well. It is nice to keep myself years in Rwanda. Moving to Germany in operations; auditing agencies to target connected to my classmates this way. August, which will make six countries since waste, fraud, and abuse; and making the asmin adamsee Forbes mmp I live in London and work for the Kuwait graduation after Honduras, Cuba, England, comptroller’s office more accessible — Investment Office as a fund manager, and Iraq, not counting a few years in the to residents. John Monaghan managing their investments in Japanese States. Another adventure with wife (Kayrn) Yasmin Padamsee Forbes is back in Cambridge. It has been who work in these nations. “Many alumni are in important Vlad Spanu mc/mpa has joined the U.S. mc/mpa 2001 equities.” and kids (Ali, Lina, and AJ) putting my Postal Service, holding the position of nearly a decade since she graduated from Harvard Kennedy positions and I created a forum for them to meet and degree to good use through the U.S. foreign Carlos Osorio mpp, a cofounder of manager of trade policy and process in School and went to Myanmar for a job with the United positively affect policy.” Chile-based Yuken Impact Research Lab, service. Love running into other Kennedy the international operations division. Nations. Now, as the founder of Forbes Leadership Retreats, Padamsee, a fi rst-generationcollege student who grew coauthored the methodology for enabling School grads either through diplomatic work innovation learning (defi)2, which received or doing other great things around the Padamsee is creating an intercultural environment for up in India, England, and the United States, believes fi rmly the Wharton QS Reimagine Education Award world. Have a great reunion, God bless, and 2004 leaders from the United States and in the need to connect leaders from multiple cultures and hope to see you all at our 20th!” — for best innovation in teaching delivery. This Melissa Brandt mpa recently joined East Asia to meet, learn, and transform. sectors so they can “work together to create a force for approach synthesizes 30 different Nehad Chowdhury mpa/id writes, “My wife, Bay Community Energy (EBCE) as director of Many alumni are in This year, she plans to focus on change.” She does this professionally through her work as innovation, design, and development Ashna, and I are enjoying living in New York regulatory and legislative affairs and deputy Myanmar. well as through her volunteerism to Harvard, including processes, and works with the cognitive and City with our two-year-old toddler, Ardeen. general counsel. EBCE is a newly formed important positions emotional determinants of technical We haven’t had the pleasure of visiting public agency, called a community choice “The reason I’m doing it in fundraising for the Adaptive Leadership Network. performance under highly risky, uncertain, Cambridge recently but have been fortunate aggregator, that will be supplying energy and I created a Myanmar is that, even though the “At HKS, I was taught by inspiring academics and made and ambiguous environments. Also a to meet classmates in other cities around with high renewables and greenhouse forum for them to country went through this incredible 200 friends, my classmates, who are focused on making the graduate of MIT with a PhD, he just finished the world. I wish everyone in the mpa/id gas–free content to the businesses and transformation and held elections, it world a better place.” This inspired her to serve as a director a year as International Faculty Fellow at the 2003 class peace and good health, and residents in Alameda County, California, meet and positively Sloan School of Management. hope to see as many of you as possible helping local cities meet their climate still faces many challenges,” she on the HKS Alumni Board, as an HKS Alumni ambassador, Swarnim Wagle mpa/id left his staff in 2018!” action goals and reinvesting earnings affect policy. says. “I have created an exchange at as an ambassador for HKS Women’s Network, and as a directly back into the community. In her position as senior economist at the World Marcelo Drago mpa says hi to everybody! the interpersonal level to provide representative on the Harvard Alumni Association’s Leaders new role, Melissa interfaces with state Bank in Washington in 2014 to return to his “I am currently serving as president of the the movers and shakers with the tools to unleash innovative group, to name just a few of the many roles she has held. agencies and the California legislature to native Nepal to become a senior policy- Chilean Transparency Council, an support EBCE’s mission of leading the state thinking and to be resilient in the face of challenges.” Grateful for her time at Harvard, Yasmin is excited to maker in the government of Nepal’s National independent public office in charge of toward decarbonization. Working in India, Myanmar, Singapore, and Lao continue creating opportunities. “I strongly believe that, Planning Commission. He served as a Freedom of Information Act enforcement. member of the commission for two terms I was proposed by President Michelle Stephen Frost mpp writes, “I’m working on People’s Democratic Republic, Padamsee raised the profi le when you get people together, the differences of culture and Use the Alumni before rising to head the institution as Bachelet and confirmed by the Senate in my third book on diversity and inclusion— of Harvard’s alumni group and tripled membership by political views don’t matter in the end, as long as there’s an vice-chair until February 2018. Directory to contact 2014 for six years. Before that I served as how to build inclusive organizations. Now building international links. “Alumni are passionate about atmosphere that builds bridges of knowledge to impact your classmates. legislative and senior public policies advisor running a team consulting to boards and creating positive change,” she says of the Harvard graduates positive change,” she says. at the National Congress, participating ExCos worldwide. See frostincluded.com. In hks.harvard.edu/ directly in legal reforms related to pension, an age of polarization, our work is more alumnidirectory

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community-centered nonprofits. I’d love to advisory/advocacy, and multiple interven- Inquire at [email protected].” get together with anyone who’s planning a tions aimed at export development and In addition, Tai is proud to be the interim 2010 Use the Alumni visit to the Ithaca, New York, area!” trade facilitation toward increasing intra- executive director for Independent Cities Josh Archambault mpp writes, “Some Directory to contact African trade and deepening Africa’s Association, a membership-based growth on both the personal and profes- your classmates. Angela Joo-Hyun Kang mc/mpa, founder integration.” legislative advocacy organization for sional side. My wife and I added another and executive president of Global Competi- cities across southern California. member to Team Archambault in March hks.harvard.edu/ tiveness Empowerment Forum (GCEF), has Charles de Segundo mpa writes, “Hi all! by adoption, a two-year-old little boy from alumnidirectory become a task force member of 2018 B20, Spent nine of the last 10 years working at foster care. He has been a delight. At work, Argentina’s Integrity and Compliance Cross PIMCO, an investment management firm 2009 I have been busy helping with welfare Thematic Group, and 2018 W20 Argentina’s focused on bonds. Left in August 2017 to Jean-Baptiste Blanc mc/mpa has transi- reform efforts in Congress and at the White South Korean delegate, as her continued take a year off and travel with Courtney tioned back to law, returning to the Paris House, and pushing health care reform global activities as 2017 B20 Germany, (married in 2009) and Adele (5.5) and bar and joining as of counsel the leading that lowers costs at the state level.” 2016 B20 China, and 2017 W20 Germany. Imogen (1.5). We have visited Iceland, African law firm Anjarwalla and Khanna Additionally, she is currently an OECD BIAC Italy, Switzerland, France, Thailand, New and its alliance, Africa Legal Network. (Business and Industry Advisory Committee) Zealand, and Australia so far, and are — Based out of Nairobi for the past seven Anti-Bribery/Corruption Task Force Group aiming for Indonesia, China, and Japan years, he has been chair of the Harvard I’m spending part of member. before returning to New York City in July. Club of Kenya since 2017 and hopes to Haven’t got a job yet for my return, but my time this year as a Robbin Peach mc/mpa has retired from build more bridges with HKS and Harvard am looking at another chapter in asset a long career in public service where alumni friends. “Whoever comes on this Presidential Leadership management, or perhaps work in advisory/ she most recently developed and ran side of the world, our door is wide open.” consulting. Am very sorry to miss you Scholar—a program all an award-winning program on climate guys next month. I have so many happy Kimberlyn Leary mpa writes, “Splitting my resilience for the Massachusetts Port HKS alums should check memories and am so grateful for the time between the Harvard T.H. Chan School Authority. While she continues to consult friendships HKS gave me.” of Public Health (where I direct the Enabling out. I miss arguing with part-time on climate resiliency, she has Change leadership program) and McLean added a new passion to her portfolio— Rreze Duli hksee works as executive everyone at Shay’s! Hospital, where I am an executive director the F.M. Alexander Technique. Currently director for the Regional Development of policy outreach. Privileged to serve as enrolled at The Alexander Educational Agency North, in the northern region of John Coleman mpa 2010 codirector of a task force with the Vera Center’s three-year teacher training course Kosovo—a most sensitive region covering Institute and the City of New York aimed at in Berkeley, California, she is interested in seven municipalities, four of which are ending girls’ incarceration in the juvenile Armando Barrera Barrios hksee is — important than ever. Would be interested in Ashley Stewart mpp recently joined the using the technique’s principles to help majority Serbian and three of which are justice system and on several boards. currently an adjunct professor at the The Harvard hearing from fellow alumni working in a Baltimore City Public Schools as their policymakers, managers, and entrepre- majority Albanian. “In this sensitive region, Looking forward to seeing MC/MPA friends Incarnate Word University in Mexico City Kennedy School similar space.” executive director for talent and organiza- neurs better address and redirect harmful we work in supporting municipalities in from 2008 at reunion.” and promoting his first book by giving Reunion held tional development. In this capacity, Ashley habitual actions to reach increasingly developing projects and supporting private Lindy Miller mpa/id is running for public lectures and attending conferences in this past May provides leadership for system-wide orga- better capacity as leaders. sector with grants and capacity building. I David Martinez mpp remains in the U.S. service commissioner, a statewide position different universities in Mexico and abroad. was the largest nizational effectiveness and capacity have learned that good governance starts foreign service and currently leads instruc- that decides how much Georgians pay for Clare Sanford mpp writes, “I was named ever, with more building strategies that are fundamental to with constructive mind set.” tion and redesign of the State Department’s Tasce Simon Bongiovanni mpp and Zack utilities and guides future infrastructure one of the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business than 850 alumni large-scale change and increased student negotiation training programs, which he Bongiovanni mpp 2006, along with their investments. Lindy earned degrees from Journal’s 2018 Women in Business Award Donna Hockey mpp writes, “In May 2018, in attendance. achievement. He oversees professional is undertaking in collaboration with HKS children Lucas and Caroline, welcome the Penn and Harvard, worked at Deloitte during winners for my work as a lobbyist and my husband and I founded Surreal Brewing Sometimes, though, learning for a staff of more than 11,000. professor Brian Mandell. From 2015 to 2017, birth of their daughter Ayla, born December a 15-year business career, and started her advocate for high-quality early childhood Company, dedicated to creating non-alco- all it takes is a Most recently Ashley served at the Annie E. David served in Bogota, traveling regularly 2017. own renewable energy company—all while education. I find this flattering but mostly holic craft beer. We live in the San Francisco couple of people. Casey Foundation in talent and leadership to Havana to work on the Colombian peace raising three young boys with her husband, hilarious since the last thing I have ever Bay area with our three children, now four, John Coleman mpa writes, “I’m living in development for nearly seven years. process. He was recently named an Atlantic Jon, a rabbi and professor at Emory. Lindy’s considered myself is a businesswoman.” six, and eight. I also have a new children’s Atlanta with my wonderful wife, Jackie, and Council Millennium Fellow, a term member message has gained significant support, book out called The When Before When. our kids Wyatt (five) and Olive (three). We’re of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the breaking fundraising records and gathering I have been writing stories that champion having our third (a little girl) in August. I work 2006 2017 University of Arizona Honors College endorsements from community leaders 2007 diversity and include tales about Muslim as an asset manager and volunteer on Robin Hamilton mc/mpa, owner of ARound Alumnus of the Year. across Georgia. Lindy won the Democratic Timothy Sommella mc/mpa, U.S. Coast celebrations in the United States.” education issues. Jackie is a teacher (and an Robin Production Company, completed her primary in May. Guard commander, is currently command- Diego Osorio mc/mpa writes, “I am HGSE grad). I’m spending part of my time second documentary, Dignity and Defiance: Gebhard Ottacher mpa writes, “After ing officer of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter honoured to have been elected to the this year as a Presidential Leadership A Portrait of Mary Church Terrell. The film school I was let back into management Dauntless. He will be in New York City area Harvard Kennedy School Alumni Board Scholar—a program all HKS alums should documents the life of the famous suffragette consulting in handcuffs. I was one of the 2005 for the summer as the ship undergoes of Directors (2018–2022).” check out. I miss arguing with everyone at and civil rights activist in Washington, D.C., few who experienced Lehman Brothers as Jo Guzman mpp, with the opioid crisis major repairs. Shay’s! Please reach out when you are in at the turn of the century. To learn more, go a liberation. I was free to start up my own Hassan Tetteh mc/mpa, U.S. Navy mounting in the United States, recently Atlanta.” to aroundrobin.com. enterprise together with other Harvard commander, most recently served as took over as director of the Counter grads. We failed spectacularly. Some command surgeon for the National Nizar Farsakh mc/mpa writes, “Let’s see … Narcotics Operations Center at Joint Inter Liz Hartman mpp writes, “My two little boys 2008 10th Reunion things require (much) more than just Defense University in Washington, D.C., been training and consulting on leadership, Agency Task Force–West (JIATF-W), the lead are now two and five. We moved to Ithaca, Kanayo Awani mc/mpa writes, “After HKS, brains. After some time serving the great and completed coursework at the National negotiations, and advocacy in the United agency for counter narcotics in the Indo- New York, in 2014 for my husband’s job and and in pursuit of Africa’s development, I Mammon at an Austrian conglomerate, I War College to obtain a master of science States and the Arab world; finally bought a Pacific region. When not trying to stem the love it here. I’ve been keeping busy with the joined the African Export-Import Bank in found my calling (and a lot of meaning) in national security strategy. He was house in a lovely part of Arlington; and flow of fentanyl, heroine, meth, and their boys and getting a congressional race off 2009 as head of trade finance. The job in building up Teach For Austria, which I selected for promotion to captain and will have embarked on a project to establish precursor chemicals into the United States, the ground in New York’s 23rd congressional ensured financial/policy interventions have been doing for the last six years.” remain in the national capital region to the Museum of the Palestinian People in Jo attempts to play ukulele and catches a district. The candidate is now the front- aimed at increasing Africa’s rather inconse- serve the military health system and Washington, D.C.!” wave from time to time. He and Joanna are runner in a DCCC Majority Makers District! quential share of global trade. In the period Tai Sunnanon mpp reports that his joint forces. expecting baby number two in November!! I’m so thankful for all of the help from the to 2016 we achieved remarkable growth in mission-driven consulting firm, the si3 Zachary Gingo mc/mpa writes, “I continue “Any HKS grads who find themselves on HKS community and hope to return the loans/advances from about $1 billion to Group, is now The Strategic Insights Group, to work at Harvard in the FAS Office of O’ahu, please let us know so we can host favor in the future. In my ‘free time’ I’ve $10 billion. In 2016, I became managing working with clients who are making a Physical Resources and Planning. I serve as you for dinner. Mahalo and a hui ho!” been active in my town and county director of the Intra-Africa Trade Initiative, difference in their communities. “And we the senior director of operations, overseeing Democratic committees and three local operating as a one-stop shop for lending, are hiring for project-based consultants. all the buildings in the FAS, and more

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recently, helping with the construction of Jay Bhatt mpa launched the American Ruddy Wang mc/mpa is in Sao Paulo as online for health care and nonprofit countries to achieve real social impact. Since elected member of the HKS Alumni board of the new School of Engineering and Applied Hospital Physician Alliance to bring general manager for Uber in central Brazil. projects. Our strategic partnership with graduation, she has been based in Manila directors. I host a new admit event in Sciences flagship building in Allston. I had together administrative and clinical leaders “More importantly, I have been smitten by a the U.S.- and UK-based crowdfunding when she isn’t traveling around the world. Singapore every year.” the pleasure of watching the construction of to advance health in America together. Join new member of the family—Richard! He is a platform GlobalGiving enables tax benefits Marlysa Gamblin mpp writes, “Hi Class! the new HKS facilities from my office at ahaphysicianforum.org. Also led the miracle of nature, a creepy crawler who’s for donors in the United States and the UK I’ve been working on racial and economic window on JFK Street.” launch of the Institute for Diversity and really gotten under my skin, and I feel very and helps garner Indian diaspora funding 2014 inequality in various roles, including with Health Equity including partnerships with attached to him.” support to the causes we showcase. It is a Jonathan Chang mc/mpa writes, “I am the Josh Stephens mpp writes about urban the NAACP and White House Faith-Based the National Urban League and UnidosUS. privilege to work on a project I worked on executive director of Lien Centre for planning for the California Planning & Daniel Young mpp began working for the Council on Poverty. Most recently, I designed Check it out at diversityconnections.org. for my PAE in the MPP program.” Social Innovation (LCSI) and an adjunct Development Report and other city-related Norfolk division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office the Racial Wealth Gap Learning Simulation, Jay serves as senior vice president and chief professor of social innovation and social — publications. He is board president of for the Eastern District of Virginia in October Anya Malkov mpp lives in Washington, an interactive tool that helps people medical officer of the American Hospital entrepreneurship at Singapore Gianna Montinola the Westside Urban Forum, a nonprofit 2016 and prevailed in his first federal jury D.C., with her husband, Noah Baerveldt, understand how the racial hunger, income Association. He was a Crains Chicago 40 Management University. LCSI was endowed mc/mpa 2013 dedicated to urban issues in Los Angeles. trial this past January. He recently transfer- and their wily cat, Harlie. Anya has recently and wealth gaps were created in America. under 40 award winner in 2016. by the Lien Foundation (two of the Lien red to the Alexandria, Virginia, office to joined Amazon as a public policy manager It’s been effective in helping people start family members are Mason Fellows). LCSI Ulrick Gaillard hksee, as CEO and work on white-collar and appellate matters. and is thrilled to be sharing the company’s talking about structural racism. It has focuses on social issues facing Singapore 2011 president of the Batey Relief Alliance values of customer obsession, curiosity, reached nonprofits, churches, schools, and and Southeast Asia through applied Sebastian Burduja mpp writes, “I am so (BRA), helped launch the organization’s and invention with state and local policy- policymakers across the country, and has research, capacity building, design excited to share with all of you that Holly first Women’s Empowerment Initiative, 2013 5th Reunion makers from Michigan all the way to the helped them understand the importance of thinking, and community empowerment. and I are expecting our second child in providing rural women in the Dominican Tom Blathwayt mc/mpa and his wife, Iona, Dakotas and down to Kansas and Missouri. implementing a racial equity lens in their LCSI has one summer internship spot for an August. Over the past year, I have continued Republic with skills training, education, welcomed a baby boy, Geordie, to their She’ll be on the road quite a bit and would policies, advocacy, and program designs in HKS student every year. I am also the HKS building PACT for Romania, the political and micro loans to engage in agricultural family in October 2017. He joins Clover, who love to connect with any HKS-ers working in multiple sectors.” alumni ambassador to Singapore and an movement we started two years ago. We are cooperative activities in order to become was born in Mumbai in 2014, and Maya, state capitals or major cities in the Midwest. very optimistic in preparation for European economically self-sufficient for the growth a midterm addition to the class of 2013. On the personal front, Anya married Noah elections next year. I also founded RISE of the community. Under his leadership, After a couple of years working for Monitor in May! Consortium, a global company specializing BRA developed into a competitive NGO and FSG in Mumbai, Tom moved back to Gianna Montinola mc/mpa continues to in bringing foreign investors to Romania, and helped raise more than $120 million London as executive director of enterprise work at Far Eastern University in the particularly from the United States, through to carry out high-impact programs that development at Nesta. He is currently Philippines as vice president for corporate a one-stop solution. We focus on energy, improved more than 2 million lives and working with the mayor of London on a affairs handling marketing, communica- real estate, and technology. Last but not attracted partnerships with various institu- new drinking water fountain strategy for tion, and external relations. “I am also least, I have continued efforts to bring tions including Procter & Gamble, Clinton the city. the current president of Hands on Manila back home Romanians abroad, including Global Initiative, and more. Jeanne Dietsch mc/mpa writes, “2018 is Foundation, Inc., a volunteer NGO. I through a EU-funded program for entrepre- Alejandra Vargas Garcia mpp and Ben the year we will turn this nation from a path recently coauthored and published a book neurs. Onward and upward!” Rankin mpp tied the knot on April 28 in a of shortsighted selfishness and greed to called Laws for Life 2, a sequel to Laws for lovely ceremony in Mexico. The Canadian- a future worthy of our ancestors and our Life. Both are guides to everyday law IN MEMORIAM Mexican couple met in negotiations class children. Our actions at the state level have written for the layman. Laws for Life won a Christopher Oosterhuis mpa/id passed in 2011 and were surrounded by their HKS the most impact. That is why I’m running for National Book Award for being the best away on June 29. He collapsed while family to celebrate this Harvard-made state senate in New Hampshire’s District 9. book in the professions category in 2017. running. He is survived by his wife, Jana, union. New Hampshire is a state in flux. Your THE BEST THE WORLD HAS TO OFFER Jon Murad mc/mpa writes, “Over the past and by his two daughters, Jaya (four) and support now can bring to bear the power of Aarya Nijat mpa writes, “Hey everyone, past year and a half, I’ve been in the private Varra (one). Chris had been working at HKS to make this state a better role model HAS A SPECIAL OFFER FOR YOU. six years have been interesting. I returned to sector, working as chief of staff to the former Convexity Capital in Boston. In August, a by the time presidential candidates head Afghanistan; spearheaded an institutional NYPD police commissioner Bill Bratton. memorial service was held to celebrate there for 2020.” reform at the local governance ministry We’ve started a division within an existing his memory. Donations may be made to with 14,000-plus civil servants; published Cristina Garmendia mpp writes, “Hello consultancy, called Teneo Risk, focusing on OosterHealth Charitable Foundation, Inc, policy papers on governance, local govern- from St. Louis! On September 15, 2017, the non-economic risk and crisis response for which will be dedicated to research on ance, and leadership; cofounded Duran, day of the Stockley verdict, I was asked to CEOs and C-suite clients. It’s been a health, exercise, and nutrition, three of a research firm in Kabul that pioneered join the City of St. Louis Mayor’s Office to heckuva ride: exciting, fast, profitable, and his passions. knowledge base development on water manage the Equity Indicators Project. The unlike anything I’ve done. But I miss the governance, and particularly transbound- Equity Indicators Project aims to quantify satisfaction and fulfillment of public service, 2012 ary waters in Afghanistan; and in the past racial equity goals for the St. Louis region and I hope all of you still serving others year or so joined a research team at UC and to identify specific opportunities for know the deep, deep value of what you do— Choose from over 35 executive education programs created Sheikh Mohammed Belal mc/mpa San Diego that supports the Afghan govern- institutional reform in both formal policies perhaps now more than ever, considering writes, “Diplomacy is what I have been specifically for public, corporate, and nonprofit leaders. ment in financial digitization—that is, and informal practices. This project the polarity and dysfunction that we face practicing since and before I was at HKS. changing how civil servants are paid, from responds to a call to action from the and must overcome to move forward.” Plus, Harvard Kennedy School degree program alumni With newfound insights from HKS, I have a cash-based manual system to digitized Ferguson Commission for a racial equity been working with renewed zeal for the Ami Valdemoro mpp recently signed on as and thus auditable mobile payments.” benchmarking process. I am humbled by are eligible for a 30% tuition discount. cause of disarmament and peace. At this the managing partner of The Cool Kids, a the responsibility I have been given and time, I am Bangladesh’s ambassador to Joe Selvaggi mc/mpa writes, “I am still collective of consultants, entrepreneurs, am so grateful now more than ever to have the Netherlands, which enabled me to work happily living in Boston advising not-for- and advisors committed to improving the HKS community to lean on.” with organizations like the Organisation for profits, foundations, and family offices people’s lives by developing the tools to the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the on ways to use values to inform investing Piyush Jain mpp, after graduating from ensure responsible stewardship of Learn more about the programs and International Criminal Court, the Permanent choices. I enjoy connecting with classmates the HKS, moved to Asia and worked at emerging technologies. Through strategic download the program guide today at

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Halimatou Hima mpp writes, “This has been who are deported and Dreamers. “One year security professionals examining current a year filled with growth and a milestone after creation: more than 5,000 visits per and future trends in national security. As toward completing my doctoral studies. month! I studied the course Strategic members of the board of directors, Josh, During my fieldwork in Niger, every day has Framework for Nonprofit Organizations. Will, Dina, Olivia, and Chris are responsible been a reminder of the gift that is education. Big thanks to HKS.” for managing, organizing, and guiding the I got to spend significant time with my organization’s growth and activities. All five Cristina “Nina” Hernandez mc/mpa family in Niamey, and that was priceless. are enjoying the opportunity to utilize skills transitioned from technical analysis to I recently joined the Next Einstein Forum as learned at HKS for this dynamic organization. policy writing after HKS. She made a second Niger’s new ambassador until 2019. NEF transition when she left private industry brings together some of the finest minds of and the national security sector to become mc/mpa Africa, pushing the frontiers of knowledge in 2016 a White House Fellow at the U.S. Office of E their fields and doing some great work. It is Dongyoun Cho mc/mpa, a policy-briefing Personnel Management. “I might be making A an honor to be part of the NEF family. The officer at the Republic of Korea Army a third transition pretty soon. I’m very initiative that I am working on, ilimiAfrika, Headquarters, has been named a 2018 passionate about helping underprivileged hopes to transform educational systems in World Fellow, one of only 16 people chosen youth and am considering pivoting toward Niger and beyond.” for this prestigious global leadership domestic policy. We’ll see if I can make that development program at Yale University, Michael Koehelr mpa keeps growing his transition coming off the White House one of the most elite universities in the company KONU in the field of leadership Fellowship. Fingers crossed!” United States. Dongyoun joins a network of development with Kennedy School alumni A daughter, Anjali Moon Landis Jha, was 327 fellows representing 90 countries. Elisabeth Heid mpa 2013 and Netaly Ophir born June 6, 2018, to Kumar Anuraj Jha World Fellows is Yale University’s signature Flint mc/mpa 2013, as well as HKS lecturer EMERIN OA EAER AAR mc/mpa (who passed away in November global leadership development initiative Tim O’Brien. Their work builds from the 30, 2017 in Sudan) and Jill Landis Jha. Anjali and a core element of its ongoing adaptive leadership and immunity to joins older sisters Anusha and Navya. commitment to internationalization. Each change frameworks: growing (and year, the university invites a group of Using Play to Create Better Global Citizens provoking) leadership in mission-driven Alexa Milanytch mc/mpa is serving as the exemplary mid-career professionals for an organizations through training, coaching, director of development for Chase Brexton intensive four-month period of academic mc/mpa and consulting. He and his colleagues are Health Care, a community medical center enrichment. based in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, that provides a continuum of care to a and Berlin, Germany. diverse and often medically underserved Shaniece Criss mc/mpa, an assistant “Do you like to play What if I told you that play can change E4S, which Buchbinder started in 2007, now operates in eight community. Alexa lives and works in professor of health science at Furman Marina LeGree mc/mpa and her husband, our world” Baltimore and volunteers on several University, was elected to the Travelers nations on three continents and has had an impact on more Larry, have, since graduating, welcomed community boards. Rest City Council in South Carolina in With these questions, Dina Buchbinder mpp 2016 invites than 900,000 individuals. two sons, Charlie and Sam. Their third baby March. She officially took office on April listeners to connect to the best parts of themselves the parts is Ascend, the nonprofit organization Marina Rodrigo Perez-Alonso mpa writes, “Since As a person who continues to redefi ne the value of 19, 2018, and is looking forward to serving founded just after finishing at HKS. Marina graduation, I returned to Mexico and set that share, that play fairly, and that include others. “If we all play—a powerful, universal human language that can teach her community. divides time between home (Washington, up my own law and public policy firm, learned how to share,” she says, “we wouldn’t have so many abstract lessons—Buchbinder has always looked to quantify D.C.) and trips to Afghanistan’s mountains. specializing in regulated industries. Since Salem El Nimri hksee is privileged to be problems in the world.” the economic benefi ts of games. But she also understands And she thanks the many classmates and November of 2017, I was invited to work in part of a NASA team that went to Antarctica friends who helped make Ascend a reality. the National Air Transport Association in and managed to successfully demonstrate Buchbinder took her passion for improving the world and that doing what one believes in is worth the Mexico as its executive director. I also a “technology that can enable the future created a nonprofi t—Education for Sharing (E4S)—that builds effort even if others think your project is — Nate Mackinnon mc/mpa was appointed appear weekly on a national TV news show interplanetary Internet.” better, more empathetic citizens through the power of play. simply “play or fun.” She had this as the first vice chancellor for community The intrinsic giving an analysis of business current colleges in the Nevada System of Higher Diogo Faria mc/mpa writes, “My main E4S’s fun and creative games prompt children ages six to 13 realization during a conversation at HKS events and a radio show doing the same. Education. He and his wife, Kaitlyn, moved professional occupation, before and after value of what My time at HKS was transformational: I and their caregivers to refl ect and act on global challenges with Professor Ricardo Hausmann. “I’ll from Boston to Reno, Nevada. His work HKS, is consulting. After graduating, I came learned leadership skills, opened my and civic values. She ties the lessons to the UN’s Sustainable never forget what he said ‘The intrinsic you’re doing includes providing leadership and coordin- back to Brazil, where I joined KPMG as a professional scope, and even learned how ation for Nevada’s four community colleges. partner-director within the government and Development Goals, a set of aspirations that range from value of what you’re doing needs no to do TV interviews. My wife, two kids, and I needs no infrastructure area. While this is a very ending poverty to creating a peaceful world, both to provide economic explanation.’ That was so had a great time at HKS and we wish to challenging position by itself, I have purpose and to measure progress. important to hear.” economic 2015 return. We miss our HKS and Boston friends.” decided to start a not-for-profit group, Take goal ball, a team sport originally designed for Other mentors at HKS included Dan Bowles mpp writes, “My wife, Megan, Scott Snider mc/mpa writes, “The reuniting high-level executives (60 so far) explanation. and I welcomed a baby girl in mid-February, behavioral health company I cofounded from both private and public sectors in visually impaired individuals. “It’s like handball, except the University President Larry Bacow Kathleen Suzanne Bowles. Baby Katie is and lead, Proven Behavior Solutions, has order to contribute, pro bono, to a better ball has a rattle inside that makes a sound.” Buchbinder mpp/d 1976, phd 1978, who at the time was growing like a weed, loves smiling, naps, been selected as a “Best Place to Work” country. The group is called infra2038 and says. Before the game begins, players are blindfolded. Then Hauser Leader-in-Residence at the Center for Public and her big sister, Annie (our black lab).” for 2018 by Boston Business Journal, aims to put Brazil among the first 20 each team tries to score on the other. “This game has a very Leadership (CPL). “I met Larry at the CPL retreat in the very recognizing us as one of the Top 20 Small positions of the WEF infrastructure rank Daniel Dobrygowski mpa was appointed Companies in Massachusetts! This is a within 20 years (up from the 73rd spot).” direct connection with fair play and empathy,” she says. At beginning of my school year, and when I asked him to head of governance and policy at the World huge win for our growing team of 60 that the end of every session, E4S creates a “circle of refl ection.” mentor me, he said, ‘yes, of course,’” she says. “I am so Economic Forum’s new Global Centre for Okendo Lewis Gayle mc/mpa writes, “I have works to help children and adolescents Cybersecurity in February. Daniel continues been helping Mark and Priscilla Zuckerberg The players discuss the diffi culties of the game and use the grateful for all that I learned from him.” with autism in southeast Massachusetts.” to be based in New York. explore investment opportunities across experience to empathize with visually impaired people. The Today, Buchbinder is busy expanding her organization, Josh Stiefel mpp, Will Denn mpp, Dina Africa, in my capacity as Africa advisor at the game creates awareness about reducing inequalities, one of Fatima Dominguez hksee has created building partnerships, and raising funds to sustain her Shahrokhi mpp, Olivia Zetter mpp, and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.” Use the Alumni mexperiencia.com, a digital platform where the UN goals. unique vision. “Problems like corruption, apathy, Chris McGuire mpp have all recently joined Directory to contact foreigners share, in their own words, how to Amit Khosa hksee writes, “As an alumnus the board of directors of the Council of The outcomes from E4S’s programs are profound. uanti- discrimination, and violence are not exclusive to any one your classmates. overcome migration procedures, culture of Harvard Kennedy School, one of my Emerging National Security Affairs (CENSA)! tative and qualitative appraisals show a reduction of violence, country,” she says. “I believe that these behaviors and shock, tips, etc. for foreigners arriving in primary goals is to ‘Effect Positive Global hks.harvard.edu/ The organization is a nonpartisan member- Mexico and useful information for those Change.’ In this pursuit I am currently a an increase in civic participation, better teamwork and fairer attitudes are learned, and that we can unlearn them to be alumnidirectory ship organization of mid-career national partner and strategic advisor at SECINDEF play, and an increase in empathy among participants. 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Tomorrow Centre for Strategic Security and Development Studies, also known as The Centre.” Alumni Board of Directors Dean’s Council EXECUTIVE BOARD Peter L. Malkin, Chair Andrónico Luksic 2017 Emilian Papadopoulos mpp 2008, Chair Laurence D. Belfer, Vice Chair George W. Mallinckrodt Deborah Bailey mc/mpa 2015, Vice-Chair Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, Vice Chair Bashar Masri Vikram Janardhan mc/mpa writes, “I am John Haederle mc/mpa 2000, Secretary Lorenzo Mendoza hksee 2009 currently the founder and CEO of a biotech MEMBERS Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook mpa 2010, Member- James B. Metzger company called Insera Therapeutics, Inc. I Sadaffe Abid mc/mpa 2011 at-Large Eric M. Mindich lost three out of four grandparents to stroke Geraldine Acuña-Sunshine mpp 1996 Anthony P. Morris and so decided to start this company with MEMBERS Karen Agustiawan hks 2014 Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani mc/mpa 1982 the goal of finding new treatments for Luma Al Saleh mc/mpa 2017 Mohammed B. Alardhi hksee 1992, Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani stroke. The early years of our journey were Teresa Acuña mc/mpa 2017 mc/mpa 2004 Paul Jay Much mpa 2009 paved with many difficulties. Today, I am Ramaswami (Balu) Balasubramaniam Abdullah Alrakhis Christian L. Oberbeck the co-inventor of 48 awarded patents mc/mpa 2010 Fahd A. Al-Rasheed Hilda M. Ochoa-Brillembourg mc/mpa 1972 in minimally invasive neurosurgery. Our Rudy Brioché mpp 2000, haa Liaison Dalia AlSulaiman Marvin E. Odum flagship product has been approved for Jonathan Chang mc/mpa 2014 Andrew T. Balls mpa 1998 Idan Ofer commercial launch in 32 European Leila El-Khatib mc/mpa 2013 Issa Baluch Andrew S. Offit mc/mpa 2011 countries and we are currently conducting Edson Kenji Kondo mpp 1990 Thomas C. Barry Nelson Ortiz mc/mpa 1983 a clinical trial in Europe with the goal of Tami Kesselman mpa 1995 Robert L. Beal Minnie R. Osmeña mc/mpa earning FDA approval within a year from Carl Manlan mc/mpa 2012 Harvey Beker Jerome L. Rappaport mpa 1963 today. Along the way we have won grants Manuel Muniz mpa 2011 Robert A. Belfer Tom Rousakis mpp 1997 from the NSF and NIH.” Diego Osorio mc/mpa 2009 Lisa M. Bellucci mc/mpa 1997 Ellen S. Roy Herzfelder mpp 1987 Steven J. Berger Yasmin Radjy mpp writes, “Soon after Frank Pearl mc/mpa 2011 David M. Rubenstein Scott M. Black graduating from HKS, I joined MobilizeAm- Steven Rahman mpp 2000 Sean C. Rush mc/mpa 2007 Mary M. Boies erica as Virginia state director, where I David Rosenberg mc/mpa 1986, haa Liaison Vincent J. Ryan Robert R. Bruce, Jr. mpp 1970 worked to support the field efforts of 10 Ruma Samdani mc/mpa 2012 Mohammad Safadi Joseph F. Campbell Jr. mpp 1978 successful Democratic House of Delegates Meredith Segal mc/mpa2017 Ralph L. Schlosstein Richard E. Cavanagh — candidates in the most competitive districts Brooke Suter mc/mpa 2017 Elliot J. Schrage mpp 1986 (Security, Intelligence and Defense). The reasons (we recently welcomed our second Cecilia Chan For the more than of the 2017 cycle. After the election, I began Jennifer Tutak mpa 2012 Mark Schwartz mpp 1979 firm is dedicated to consulting, training, child, and mother-in-law as nanny was too Adrian C. Cheng 850 alums who working for Planned Parenthood Action Andrew M. Sieg mpp 1992 and the provision of services in the fields of appealing). HKS friends, please come visit Timothy C. Collins came back for Fund and Planned Parenthood Federation Jane E. Silfen mpp 2013 security, intelligence, and defense. As an Paris, and when you do, our home is your Dean’s Executive Committee Jamie A. Cooper mpa 1994 Reunion, some of America as director of organizing and Gabriela A. Smith mpa 1991 engineer, entrepreneur, and policymaker, I home.” Howard E. Cox Jr. things, like the training, and am currently based in Laurence D. Belfer Michael Spies mcrp 1982 am currently working at the intersection of Bharat Desai Wexner Commons, Katie (Katharine) Parry mpa/id is working Washington, D.C. Earlier this year, I also Robert A. Belfer, Esq. Gabriel B. Sunshine public policy and technology with a special Teresa H. Doggett mc/mpa 1983 were new. Others, for McKinsey in London, with a focus (glori- joined the Truman National Security Mary Boies Carl-Henric Svanberg focus on the new frontier—cybersecurity.” Edward D. Dong mc/mpa 2015 like the inflatable ously) on the public sector. “It’s a pretty Project as a political partner.” Glenn Dubin Christen Sveaas Beth Dozoretz globe, were old Jeffrey Lamb mc/mpa writes, “Since interesting time to be in the UK thinking Jane Hartley Anthony Tamer Kirsten Rulf mpp writes, “One year after Glenn Dubin favorites. graduating I’ve gone into two new fields, about the role of the state, and of national Alan G. Hassenfeld Robert Taubman graduation, a classmate and I have put Ellen K. Dyvik mpa 1990 climate change with UNDP, and impact governments, and I’m really enjoying the Gustave M. Hauser, Esq. Lynn Thoman some of our core classes into practice and Ernesto F. Fernández-Holmann investing with the Palladium Group. From opportunities that McKinsey is giving me Rita E. Hauser Joseph B. Tompkins Jr. mpp 1975 have co-founded a new research center at mc/mpa 1966 a home base in Mexico, I work as part to be part of the conversation. Reach out Ellen S. Roy Herzfelder mpp 1987 Enzo Viscusi HKS under the guidance and leadership of Anne Finucane of the UNDP team to help developing and say hi if you’re passing through.” Sheila C. Johnson Brooke N. Wade Professor Mark Fagan: We have launched Karen A. Frank countries put together funding proposals Peter L. Malkin, Esq. Abigail Wexner Jason Peuquet mpp moved to Denver the Autonomous Vehicles Policy Initiative Dionisio Gutiérrez for climate change adaptation projects. Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani mc/mpa 1982 Leslie H. Wexner after graduation and is loving life in the (AVPI), an effort to build the first indepen- Alan G. Hassenfeld The role has exposed me to a new world Hilda M. Ochoa-Brillembourg mc/mpa 1972, Malcolm H. Wiener Rockies. “I’m working as an economist for dent think-and-do-tank on the numerous Rita E. Hauser (climate change, environmental issues, hksee 2002 Inno Xie the Colorado Public Utilities Commission policy and social challenges that cities, Gustave M. Hauser international development, multilateral Idan Ofer Dorothy S. Zinberg and enjoying wrestling with the challenges states, and national governments will Nicolaus P. Henke mc/mpa 1990 organizations) and enabled me to visit Batia Ofer and opportunities facing the power sector face during and after the arrival of fully Kenneth A. Hersh unique places such as Kiribati and Tonga. David M. Rubenstein in the 21st century.” autonomous vehicles on streets all over Ahmad Jalal mpa/id 2011 As a member of Palladium’s investment Ralph L. Schlosstein the world. It has been an exhilarating and Tasso Jereissati oversight committee, my work entails Richard Trojanski hksee was appointed Cathleen Douglas Stone iop 1984 exhausting endeavor and seemed imposs- Sheila C. Johnson reviewing grant proposals for water and civil service commissioner of the City of Christen Sveaas ible a year ago. But now that it’s done, AVs Maha J. Kaddoura mc/mpa 2000 energy companies in Cambodia on behalf Maple Heights, Ohio, in January by Mayor Robert S. Taubman can arrive!” Kay Kapoor of the Australian government. Annette Blackwell. Richard is an HKSEE Lynn B. Thoman John F. Keane Sr. alum from the Senior Executives in State Mildred Voon mpp writes, “I am currently Lara Warner Adnane Meziane mc/mpa writes, “After Latifa Kosta and Local Government in 2016. seconded in the prime minister’s depart- Leslie H. Wexner more than 10 years in the United States, George Kounelakis ment in Putrajaya, Malaysia—overseeing Abigail Wexner my family has decided to relocate to France Peter Forkpayea Zogolee Zaizay hksee Edward M. Lamont Jr. education and human capital development for the foreseeable future. I will continue writes, “I am doing fine in Liberia and Brandt C. Louie Memberships as of 8/1/2018 to work in mergers and acquisitions for currently working with the Senate cochair policy initiatives under the National Trans- formation Programme. If you are ever in Use the Alumni UBS Investment Bank, but from the Paris on defense, security, and intelligence as an Kuala Lumpur or Malaysia, drop me a note! Directory to contact office and with greater responsibilities. advisor. Prior to this assignment I worked Would love to meet up. Also, shout out to your classmates. Our move was prompted by professional as deputy commissioner-general in charge opportunities, political arbitrage (Macron’s of administration at the Liberia Immigration all mpp 2017 Deltas!” hks.harvard.edu/ “Make Our Planet Great Again” seemed Service. I am also currently working to alumnidirectory more appealing than “MAGA”), and family strengthen a private firm called Today-

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