HARVARD + PERFORMANCE SPECIALISTS KENNEDY PARTNERS FOR GROWTH SCHOOL NATION BUILDING magazine summer 2018 SEEKING JUSTICE BRYAN STEVENSON MPP/JD 1985 CLASSES OF 1969 | 1974 | 1979 | 1984 | 1989 | 1994 | 1999 | 2004 | 2009 | 2014 IS A TIRELESS DEFENDER OF THE POWERLESS NOTE: All Reunion communication will be sent via email. Be sure your contact information is accurate by updating your profile in the Alumni Directory. 1 HKSmag_su18_cvr1-4_final.indd 3 8/7/18 1:00 PM THE SIXTH COURSE 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 summer 2018 | summer 2018 | harvardharvard kennedy kennedy school school 1 1 2 HKSmag_su18_IFC2-11_Final_R2.indd 2 8/8/18 5:51 PM 2 HKSmag_su18_IFC2-11_Final_R2.indd 1 8/8/18 5:50 PM EXECUTIVE SUMMARY IN THIS ISSUE IN THE HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL MAGAZINE, we showcase the Kennedy School’s alumni, faculty, Associate Dean for staff, and students who are making signifi cant progress in addressing public problems. We are very Communications and Public Affairs 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 Senior Director of Alumni Relations 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 Designers 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 mpp/jd 1985 is the driving Contributing 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 Printer criminal justice system. In Arizona, Ethel Branch mpp/jd 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 mc/mpa 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 mpp 2010 and Kathryn Peters mpp 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 18 Performance Specialists The Government Performance Lab is on a mission to make just a few of the many ways our alumni are creating positive 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 Magazine 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 mc/mpa 1985 hopelessness to college. you will read in this issue about the Government Performance Lab, which is led by Professor Jeffrey Phil Cronin mpp 1996 Liebman and employs many recent Kennedy School graduates. The lab has partnered with people Tiziana Dearing mpp 2000 Melodie Jackson mc/mpa 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 mpp 2012 In these pages we also recognize Drew Faust, who has stepped down after leading Harvard as Craig Sandler mc/mpa 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 mc/mpa 1989 same time, we proudly congratulate our new president, Larry Bacow mpp/jd 1976, phd 1978the Jeffrey Seglin, faculty fi rst Kennedy School graduate to lead the University. In addition, we introduce the School’s fi rst Ken Shulman mc/mpa 2004 DEPARTMENTS associate dean for diversity, inclusion, and belonging, Robbin Chapman. I and others at the School Steven Singer mc/mpa 1986 Scott Talan mc/mpa 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 mc/mpa 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 2018 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 MARTHA STEWART MARTHA (cover) and is fsc® certifi ed. mpp/jd 1985 by Rick Frontiero 2 www.hks.harvard.edu summer 2018 | harvard kennedy school 3 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 Andrew Deye mc/mpa 2015, 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 MAYORS and technologies to protect democratic became a production plant for a rework homeless service contracts, INNOVATION PROJECT 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 WYOMING SOUTH 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, OHIO 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.