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STUDENTS, FACULTY, AND STAFF celebrate civic participation. Through the Harvard Votes Challenge, more than 90 percent of eligible Harvard Kennedy School students registered to vote last fall.

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OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS, I have thought and written about the perils and promise in the Associate Dean for public sphere now. The perils are complex and abundant. They include the many problems Communications and Public A airs Thoko Moyo stemming from the coronavirus pandemic, threats to democracy and human rights, racism and other forms of injustice, obstacles to inclusive economic growth, the climate crisis, the Managing Editor Nora Delaney challenge of achieving eƒ ective governance, and more. Editor At the same time, I see great promise. Many people have a renewed understanding of Robert O’Neill how connected we are to each other and how good governance enables us to work together Director of Alumni Relations eƒ ectively—and I know how much principled and eƒ ective public policy and leadership can Karen Bonadio achieve. I have seen examples of this good work fi rsthand in more than 20 years working on Designers economic policy in Washington. And I have seen it for the past fi ve years at Harvard Kennedy Janet Friskey School in our teaching, research, and outreach. I know that we are seizing opportunities to Raychel Casey make a diƒ erence when and where it is most needed. Rachel Harris In this issue of Harvard Kennedy School Magazine, you can read about faculty members Contributing Writers and alumni who are meeting head-on the biggest public challenges we face. Several of our Susan Hughes Jessica McCann faculty experts write Jane von Rabenau MPA/ID 2019 has Mari Megias about what they see as an innovative plan to reduce plastic Ralph Ranalli waste in the oceans. the most pressing issues Cristine Russell for the Biden-Harris James F. Smith administration in a wide Printer range of policy areas. You Lane Press can also read about how Harvard Kennedy School FEATURES our faculty members are Magazine is published two times rethinking ways to work a year by the John F. Kennedy School of Government Ož ce of Alister Martin MPP/MD 2015 wants to treat patients but also the body politic. in a post–COVID-19 world. 14 The Upstream Solution Communications and Public Aƒ airs In addition, we look at 79 John F. Kennedy Street 18 What’s Behind the Daily Grind? Rethinking work for a post-COVID-19 world. sustainability through a Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 profi le of Professor Bill Phone: 617-495-1442 24 Putting Science into Practice Bill Clark’s pursuit of sustainable development. Clark, who is a pioneer Email: [email protected] Copyright © 2021 by the President and long-standing leading 30 Saving the Ocean, One Sachet at a Time Jane von Rabenau MPA/ID 2019 is trying to solve and Fellows of Harvard College. voice in sustainability All rights reserved. a major source of ocean pollution, one plastic packet at a time. science. Paired with that Magazine Advisory Board 32 A Needed Course A new mandatory course for arriving MPP students combines history, sociology, profi le is the story of alumna Jane von Rabenau MPA/ID 2019, whose organization tackles Joe Bergantino MC/MPA 1985 environmental pollution caused by plastic waste. We also feature alumnus Alister Martin Phil Cronin MPP 1996 and public policy. MPP/MD 2015, who addresses public policy problems, from civic participation to the opioid Tiziana Dearing MPP 2000 epidemic, alongside his work as an emergency physician. Melodie Jackson MC/MPA 2001 David King, faculty The promise for the future of the public sphere can be seen in the work of the HKS Chris Olver MPP 2012 DEPARTMENTS community, as the stories in this issue of the magazine show. I hope that 2021 fulfi lls some of Craig Sandler MC/MPA 2000 that promise for us all—and that you fi nd ways to continue contributing to the world around Janice Saragoni MC/MPA 1989 4 Ideas What I Would Do First | 36 In print Lynching and Local Justice 40 Alumni voices Classnotes | you in your own work and life. Jeƒ rey Seglin, faculty Research Briefs | JFK: Coming of Age in the American Tim Ritchie MC/MPA 1998 | Elisa Basnight Ken Shulman MC/MPA 2004 Dean Doug Elmendorf Century | On Justice | Leaders Who MC/MPA 2007 | Kostas Bakoyannis MPP 2004 Steven Singer MC/MPA 1986 Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy 10 Profiles John Fetterman MPP 1999 Scott Talan MC/MPA 2002 Lust | The Upswing | Saurabh Agarwal MPA 2014 | Kesha Ram | Tomás Recart MPA/ID 2008 February 2021 Donald Tighe MC/MPA 1999 MC/MPA 2018 38 Bully pulpit Jacinda Ardern | 11 Faculty Yanilda González Eugene Robinson | Mary Daly | 62 Ways and means Flexible Gifts David Rubenstein | Valerie Jarrett | Change Lives Dean Doug Elmendorf hosted a virtual debrief with Peter Sands | Tara Westover Harvard Kennedy School faculty members after the U.S. 64 Exit poll

presidential election in November. Top: Nancy Gibbs, This magazine is printed on 100 percent Arthur Brooks. Middle: Cornell William Brooks, Pippa Norris, postconsumer waste paper (text) and 30 percent postconsumer waste paper Doug Elmendorf. Bottom: David Gergen, Archon Fung. (cover) and is fsc® certifi ed. Cover photo of Alister Martin MPP/MD 2015 by Raychel Casey 2 www.hks.harvard.edu WINTER 2021 | HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL 3

2 HKSmag_wi21_IFC2-11_F_2.2.21 revised.indd 2 2/3/21 2:35 PM 2 HKSmag_wi21_IFC2-11_F_2.2.21 revised.indd 3 2/3/21 2:35 PM IDEAS SHEILA JASANOFF What I would do first to restore science to its rightful place in public policy The first thing I would do is abolish the increasingly politicized oƒce of the science advisor to the president and replace it with a more diverse and inclusive president’s council of advisors on science and technology in society. History shows that science fares best in this nation when it is responsive to people’s skepticism, not insulated from it. A presidential council of science in society would help rebuild trust. It would ensure that science advice is not just technically sound but answerable to the rough-and-tumble demands of democracy. — “WHAT I Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies WOULD DO JASON FURMAN What I would do first to address the COVID KATHRYN SIKKINK FIRST TO …” economic crisis What I would do first to The economic pain from COVID-19 restore the primacy of HKS faculty share could outlast the virus itself, so making human rights a plan both to minimize the current post-inauguration policy shock and to address persistent “The first and most vulnerabilities is essential. The first important task we recommendations and thing President Biden should do is push face is to address a five-step economic approach to tackle our human rights solutions for urgent this situation. First, address the virus itself with more funding for testing and crisis within, problems facing the vaccine distribution. Second, provide including racialized immediate relief and response through police violence, United States and the world. additional unemployment insurance economic inequality, and assistance to states and schools. voter suppression, Third, rebuild the economy through infrastructure investment. Fourth, fill and cruel border THE UNITED STATES AND THE WORLD face numerous public holes in the social safety net especially and immigration problems—a global pandemic, the climate crisis, economic and in the areas of health care and sick policies.” political instability—that require urgent and e‚ective policy leave. Finally, strengthen the global — responses. The Biden administration will have to hit the ground economy by crafting a coordinated Ryan Family Professor of Human running to tackle these daunting challenges. But where should global response that includes both Rights Policy they begin? HKS faculty members describe what they would do economic stimulus and debt relief for first in a post-Trump political landscape and why, reflecting on a developing countries. range of pressing policy areas. — Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy

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And we lead not by the example of our power, but by the should announce that the United States COVID-19 spread by releasing prisoners. By significantly reducing the numbers of inmates being held power of our example.” He included some immediate specifics, including a COVID-19 will rejoin the Paris Climate Accord, since in federal prisons, the Biden administration can send a strong signal to the nation. task force to make real his plan to control the virus; a commitment to rejoin the Paris climate change poses the greatest long- — climate agreement; and a commitment to stay in the World Health Organization. term threat to humanity’s future. There are Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice and Faculty Director of the Program in The president understands that many issues cross national boundaries and that plenty of other steps that Biden should Criminal Justice Policy and Management international cooperation is key. take to improve America’s international — standing—ending the forever wars, Director of the Center for Public Leadership and Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership pressing Europe to take responsibility DANI RODRIK for its own defense, negotiating new What I would do first multilateral arrangements on trade, to put trade policy digital technology, migration, and global back on track GORDON HANSON health, shoring up U.S. alliances in Asia, rebuilding our diplomatic capacity, and Donald Trump has wreaked havoc on What I would do bringing new voices into the foreign policy JOAN DONOVAN the world trade regime by waging an STEPHEN GOLDSMITH first to help regions establishment—but rejoining the Paris unnecessary trade war with China and What I would do first to left behind What I would do first accord is the place to start. control misinformation making it impossible for the World Trade Research shows that standard to save cities — Organization to function. The challenge approaches to local economic Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of “The time has Biden faces is to reach a settlement “Only concentrated International A†airs development, which emphasize tax with China while establishing a new come to redesign breaks to attract large companies, do action will multilateral trade order that is more social media so not close regional gaps in economic produce hope compatible with domestic social and that a few well- opportunity. The most pressing problem in communities economic needs. The WTO and the in distressed communities is joblessness. ARCHON FUNG resourced, powerful patchwork of regional trade agreements where the e ects To promote employment creation groups cannot that govern world trade need a serious of poverty and What I would do first in regions in which joblessness has re-examination. They have gone too far to deepen democracy leverage the speed become endemic, existing tax breaks neglect throttle by putting global corporations in the and scale of social could be repurposed to provide seed opportunity.” The first priority for all Americans and driver’s seat while failing to address the media to misinform capital to new or expanding businesses, — especially for the Biden administration di­culties posed by new areas such as Derek Bok Professor of the wage subsidies for employing low-wage should be to sanctify the democratic the public.” Practice of Urban Policy digital trade. principle that American citizens should — workers, and student-debt relief to — Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy newly hired college graduates. pick their political leaders, and not the Ford Foundation Professor of International other way around. President Biden Political Economy — Peter Wertheim Professor in Urban Policy should vigorously advocate for crucial elements of House Resolution 1, called the For the People Act: automatic voter registration, early voting, ANTHONY SAICH online registration, a federal Election NANCY GIBBS What I would do first to create an Day holiday, greater disclosure in eective China policy What I would do first to renew public campaign spending, and the creation of nonpartisan commissions for redistricting The most important geopolitical challenge for the new administration trust in news media in federal elections. He should also remains how to deal with a rising China. China is not going away, so an The decline in trust in news media began well before 2016, and a change convene a national commission to eŒective approach will develop policies to coexist while promoting American in the White House is not enough to reverse the damage. As long as strengthen democracy, to document interests. Two general principles for action should be undertaken. First, as millions of people occupy an alternative universe of non-facts, progress the many ways in which the democratic opposed to simply banning activities or Chinese products, the emphasis on pressing national problems will be hard if not impossible. This trust principle is routinely violated in our should be on reciprocity. Second, actions should be taken in concert with needs to be grounded in our many local communities. So even as we map politics, and to propose solutions. other nations, as this is what China fears most. Coalitions of the willing and how misinformation shapes that alternative universe, it is vital that we — aggrieved must be built to bring pressure to bear on Beijing. rebuild a robust, relevant local news ecosystem. Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of — — Citizenship and Self-Government Director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and Lombard Director of the Shorenstein Center and Visiting Edward R. Murrow Daewoo Professor of International A
airs Professor of the Practice of Press, Politics and Public Policy

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Research Briefs “Cancel Culture” and Pooled Testing in Developing Countries

— Academic Freedom THROUGHOUT THE CORONAVIRUS EPIDEMIC, one of the most frustrating constraints THE RECENT RISE OF RECKONING around issues of racism and has been a lack of available test kits. Several policy proposals have put forth plans to ethnicity, sexual harassment and misogyny, and gender questions advance mass testing in developed countries; however, that remains out of has led to much debate about the risks and benefi ts of “cancel reach in many developing countries, owing to cost, distance, and culture,” the term used to describe the ostracization supply considerations. In a recent article in the Lancet Microbe, of those who are perceived to violate specifi c “Optimising SARS-CoV-2 Pooled Testing for Low-Resource Settings,” social norms. In her new working paper, “Closed ASIM KHWAJA, the Sumitomo-FASID Professor of International Minds? Is a ‘Cancel Culture’ Stifl ing Academic Finance and Development, and coauthors explore the potential benefits of group testing—testing samples from multiple people at the Freedom and Intellectual Debate in Political Extreme Leadership Science?,” PIPPA NORRIS, the Paul F. McGuire Lecturer same time and taking further action only if there is a positive result—in developing in Comparative Politics, explores claims that cancel culture is countries. They use data to examine how well group testing, as compared with IN THE CURRENT CONGRESS and taking over college campuses, silencing conservative voices and individual testing, can estimate the disease’s prevalence and help relax lockdown historically, political party leaders diverse perspectives, and threatening classic liberal values at restrictions. The authors find evidence that group testing is not only an e–ective have played an essential part in the heart of academic life. Using extensive data to examine this solution for developing countries but also more ežcient and more socially setting both the substance of phenomenon within the discipline of political science, Norris responsible, given the global shortage of tests. legislation and the broader legislative explores the important social progress that can be achieved — agenda. So why do party leaders through liberalization, the risks in stifl ing di¦ ering opinions, and tend to tilt more extreme than essential questions about the role academic freedom can play Putting Human Subjects First typical party members do? A new when social progress is at stake. working paper, “Why Party Leaders — POLITICAL VIOLENCE—including war, terrorism, and other forms of unrest—is among Tend to Be Extremists,” explains the most ethically complex topics studied by social scientists. Because direct this ideological phenomenon in Chinese Public Opinion interviews with victims, perpetrators, and witnesses can be dižcult and dangerous terms of negotiation theory. Authors Through Time for researchers and their subjects alike, many studies rely on “desk RICHARD ZECKHAUSER, the Frank Extra Work: Fluctuating research”—the use of secondary sources such as newspaper articles, Plumpton Ramsey Professor Schedules and Childcare CHINA IS HOME TO THE WORLD’S LARGEST POPULATION and its NGO reports, and other sources of qualitative data—which is often of Political Economy; DAVID second-largest economy, and its ruling Chinese Communist Party thought to be ethically unproblematic. But as DARA KAY COHEN, the KING, a senior lecturer in Arrangements (CCP) has been in power for more than 70 years. Yet because of a Ford Foundation Associate Professor of Public Policy, and her coauthor public policy; and BENJAMIN , an assistant FOR WORKING PARENTS, arranging childcare can be di€ cult lack of public and nationally representative data, it argue in “Centering Human Subjects: The Ethics of ‘Desk Research’ on SCHNEER under the best of circumstances; when work schedules are has been di€ cult to know how ordinary Chinese Political Violence,” published recently in the Journal of Global Security Studies, desk professor of public policy, unstable or unpredictable, the logistics become even more citizens feel about their government—until now. research based on secondary sources can involve significant ethical complexities. argue that party members complex. In his recent paper, “Who Cares If New research from the Ash Center for Democratic They write that scholars must carefully consider the risks these sources may pose for strategically select leaders Parents Have Unpredictable Work Schedules?: Governance and Innovation, “Understanding people and communities a–ected by violence and recommend a new framework for who are extreme enough to Just-in-Time Work Schedules and Child Care CCP Resilience: Surveying Chinese Public Opinion evaluating desk research, highlighting issues of vulnerability and inequity and calling aid in negotiations—where Arrangements,” published in the September Through Time,” lays out the fi ndings of an for greater recognition of its potential consequences. parties typically begin at issue of Social Problems, Professor of Public Policy extensive longitudinal survey tracking Chinese — the outer fringes and meet somewhere in the middle— DANIEL SCHNEIDER explores survey data from more citizens’ satisfaction with the performance of their than 3,000 parents working in the retail and food service sector. government at the town, county, provincial, and but not so extreme as to lead In the United States, this sector accounts for 17 percent of jobs national levels. The authors—ANTHONY SAICH, to total breakdowns in negotiation. and employs the parents of one in 10 children. It is also often the Daewoo Professor of International A¦ airs They explore the implications of this characterized by low wages and just-in-time (such as on-call or and Ash Center director; EDWARD CUNNINGHAM, idea in terms of members’ electoral last-minute) scheduling practices. Schneider and his coauthors an adjunct lecturer in public policy; and JESSIE longevity and of how it manifests in fi nd that parents with just-in-time schedules are more likely to TUREL, an Ash Center postdoctoral fellow—fi nd that di–erent contexts, such as times of rely on informal sources of childcare, such as family members, satisfaction with the Chinese government increased from 2003 to extreme polarization or majority- babysitters, young siblings, or the children themselves. Given the 2016 overall, especially (perhaps surprisingly) among poorer and party advantage, finding significant extent to which quality of care impacts children, the researchers more marginalized inland groups. Additionally, the authors fi nd that evidence for their theory. — found, just-in-time scheduling is likely to have consequences changes in attitude, both positive and negative, have corresponded for children’s development and safety and to contribute to the to real changes in people’s material well-being. The survey’s intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. results make clear that as China and the rest of the industrial — world face the twin challenges of declining economic growth and environmental di€ culties, the CCP cannot a¦ ord to take its citizens’

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to be able to interact with Robert McNamara, the former defense secretary, who’s been described as the architect of the Vietnam War. One of the most meaningful, impactful books that I’ve ever read was In Retrospect. It’s about his reflections on the Vietnam War—that it didn’t have to happen and in fact was largely based on a misunderstanding. FACULTY For him to admit that he was wrong in a way that was so To Serve and Protect public, about something of which the outcome was so tragic, and then for him to want to pass that lesson on—I can’t overstate the profundity of that and how meaningful it BORN IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, kind of bulwark, as protection against those other citizens. That has been in public life for me. Assistant Professor of Public Policy immediately gets in the way of having the type of police forces or YANILDA GONZÁLEZ moved to New York legal institutions that are out there to protect all of us, so we get ALUMNI City when she was seven. Growing up, she into policing that is carried out in behalf of some of us but against Do you have hope that we remembers, she was struck by stories about others. Politicians who are looking to win elections are going to Getting Your Arms Around Something Very Simple might be entering an era police violence—violence usually aimed pick issues that will get votes. When people are concerned about where good public policy at Black people—and by the way victims’ crime and security, policing can become one of those issues. And and public leadership are JOHN FETTERMAN MPP 1999 we were going to go to the go. But it didn’t seem right. advocates and family members would fight then elections themselves can generate incentives for politicians to more highly valued? is the lieutenant governor gym. He never showed up. I So I joined AmeriCorps and for justice. Those experiences were formative in shaping her work. reinforce authoritarian policing. of Pennsylvania. Fetterman found out why a few hours ultimately ended up at the I hope so. It’s undeniable González studies what she calls authoritarian police in democracies. grew up in a comfortable later: He’d been killed in a car Kennedy School. that President Trump has Although her work has obvious resonance in the United States, it is What spurs reform? suburban home, but after a crash on his way to my house. fundamentally altered the based on a decade of field research in Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, What we’re seeing in the United States is very similar to the tragic personal loss changed That really put me in a place political genome of American and elsewhere across Latin America. processes I studied in Latin America. They often happen around What were the memorable his outlook, he embarked that I’d never been before— politics. And we have to push or leading up to elections. We see a convergence of societal experiences you had at HKS on a career in public service. realizing you could wake up back against this idea that you Your work focuses on a central contradiction that exists in many preferences and demands for police reform—some scandal or that shaped your thinking as He served as the innovative in the morning, eat breakfast, don’t want to listen to people societies we would call free and democratic. Why is that? some big galvanizing event of police misconduct leads sectors a policymaker? mayor of Braddock, and kiss your family goodbye who have years of experience When we talk about the United States and many countries in that used to oppose police reform or be neutral on the issue to Pennsylvania, a hard-hit small not knowing that you had 15 One was meeting Alan and expertise. But then again, Latin America, we’re talking about countries with elections that then support it. Similar transformative moments that I studied town outside Pittsburgh, minutes left on this planet. Simpson, the former senator sometimes the smartest are more or less free and fair. Everybody gets to vote. There’s in Colombia and Argentina led to reforms along everything from and has become known as a I wanted to get involved in [from Wyoming]. I had him for people in the room can’t get alternation in power. They have legislatures, all these institutions police education and training to recruitment to internal and progressive with an ability something that felt more a class. He was a Republican their arms around something and processes that we associate with democracy. But the police external accountability. Every aspect of policing was on the table, to relate to working-class meaningful, more directed. who wanted to be bipartisan that’s very simple. I think there forces don’t quite match. It was that disconnect between the type and we saw very comprehensive and far-reaching reforms. Pennsylvanians. So I joined Big Brothers. I and was pro-choice and would needs to be a balance, and of regime, the type of government that we have—democracies got paired up with a little kid attack his own party just as I think there’s going to be a in many of these places—and the ways that police institutions Do the reforms stick? whose father had just died easily as the other one. We hit better era of acknowledging operate that led me to develop this concept of authoritarian You can pass legislation, and that itself is hard enough. You can Can you talk about the of AIDS about nine months it o , I think in part because that government for the most police and to think about how they operate and are actually begin to implement it. But the other side of my research is how formative experiences you’ve earlier, and his mother had we’re both very tall [Simpson part is e ective, that we need reproduced in democracy. those reforms can also become undone. When you go back to had that contributed to your end-stage, full-blown AIDS. I is 6’7”, Fetterman is 6’9”], it, and that when it doesn’t those moments of societal division, which I call fragmentation, and entering public service? thought, How can this coexist but it was really more about work, we see things like how So how does a democratic system produce an authoritarian fear of crime starts to be more salient again, you get those sectors I was getting ready to with the world I know? How the wisdom he imparted and it’s gone with the pandemic. institution? of society being divided again, and politicians exploiting those graduate [from the University can you have a child who will the way he carried himself. That’s when people say, One of the contradictions I saw is that democracies create political spaces. In both instances, in Argentina and in Colombia, of Connecticut School of be an orphan before his ninth We could use a lot more “Yeah, it’s actually kind of incentives for those types of police forces to emerge. Quite often elections gave way to that kind of discourse, and the reforms Business]; my friend was birthday? At that point I had of that in today’s political useful to have an organized we find that because of inequality, people see other people— started to be undone piece by piece. my MBA, and I was good to landscape. I was also thrilled governmental response.” their fellow citizens—as threats, and they see the police as a supposed to come over, and STEWART MARTHA COURTESY OF JOHN FETTERMAN COURTESY

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told that if attendance reached 95 percent or more, they could Recart realizes that by necessity, teachers play many roles. keep a portion of the additional state funds they received to “It’s not just teaching math; it’s being the father, the mother, support their classrooms. “I saw with my own eyes how 600 kids the scout leader, the soccer coach—being a teacher in these started going to school,” he says. “And if I could do this without low-income communities is very hard,” he says. He knows these knowing anything, how much more could be done?” things because of the time he spends in the classroom. “One of He ended up working with the my biggest takeaways after 12 years district’s schools for four years. is that you have your head and your But wanting to gain more skills heart where your feet are,” he says. to have an even bigger impact, “You can be ridiculously intelligent Recart applied and was accepted and empathetic, but if you aren’t in to Harvard Kennedy School. He the field, you will be asking the wrong had been on campus for only two questions. I’m firmly convinced that weeks when he heard Wendy Kopp, if I’m not in the classrooms and the founder of Teach For America, communities, I will be a bad CEO.” speak at Harvard Business School. Moreover, he is convinced that TFA, started in 1990, assigns recent Enseña Chile’s teachers are part of college graduates to teach in some of the systemic change in education the most underserved communities they want to see. More than three- in the United States. Kopp believes quarters of its teacher alumni work that if future leaders (the TFA corps full time in education, as teachers or members) experience firsthand the problems with education, they will innovate and create change. “One of my biggest takeaways after 12 years is that She insisted that everyone in education was asking the wrong you have your head and your heart where your feet THE RIGHT QUESTION question. “We are thinking of are. ... I’m firmly convinced that if I’m not in the what to do,” Recart says. “She was Tomás Recart MPA/ID 2008 was challenged by the mayor saying, ‘First who, then what.’” It classrooms and communities, I will be a bad CEO.” of a poor town to see what he would do to improve education. was a revelation. He spent his two TOMÁS RECART years at HKS constantly testing He went on to cofound Enseña Chile (Teach For Chile). those ideas and that theory of BY MARI MEGIAS change. “And when I got back to in education policy. More than that, Chile after graduation, I never had they have developed a common any doubt that Enseña Chile was my purpose. Before they began to teach TOMÁS RECART WAS AN ENGINEERING MAJOR working for a has never stopped visiting classrooms and trying to understand personal purpose,” he says. with Enseña Chile, he says, only 37 public policy unit at a major university in Santiago, Chile, when communities and the children they serve. The journey to success was not percent believed that every child he met the mayor of Puente Alto, one of the area’s largest and Recart was expected to follow in the family footsteps and easy. “Founding, launching, and could attain a high level of education. poorest towns, and asked a simple question: “What are your go into engineering, but, drawn to social challenges, he had maintaining an educational initiative After teaching with Enseña Chile three biggest problems?” The mayor gave a simple answer: taken a public policy job with the caveat that it would be for with a collective approach is a lot of for two years, 97 percent of alumni “Education, education, education.” Then he took out his car keys just one year. Then came those visits to Puente Alto’s troubled work,” Recart says. “It’s easy to get believed it was possible—and and gave them to Recart. “Visit all the schools and tell me what schools, where he observed chaos and an environment of low caught in the operational details and they said they were willing to take we can do,” he said. expectations, and his life changed course. lose the vision and the dream. For personal responsibility to ensure that Recart has devoted his life since then to doing just that. During his visits, he found that nobody had a good grasp on the first seven years, we were never students succeeded. Enseña Chile, which was inspired by Teach For America (TFA) student attendance. So he told the mayor that if the town didn’t sure of ending the year without a “We can see that the biggest and is part of Teach For All’s 58-country network, now reaches know how many students were going to school, then it didn’t deficit.” In addition, teachers, who impact is yet to come,” Recart says. 35,000 students each year through its teachers and tens of know how much revenue it should be receiving from the state. were selected in a rigorous process, sometimes resigned after a “As our alumni network grows, we see them starting their thousands of students through its alumni network. Since its And if it didn’t know how often the students were attending, couple of months in the classroom. own schools, their own nonprofits, working in government founding in 2008, it has sent almost 600 teachers across it couldn’t know how much they were learning. Recart began Today, Enseña Chile has sent teachers to 10 of the country’s departments, and innovating collectively to make the dream of the country to collaborate with students, schools, teachers, working with the municipality right there and then. The work 16 regions. It thoroughly evaluates everything from student every Chilean child receiving an excellent education a reality.”

families, and communities to improve education. And Recart started with attendance-tracking software, and teachers were RECART OF TOMÁS COURTESY PHOTOS outcomes to the impact of teachers on the educational system.

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THREE FRIENDS are sitting by a swiftly flowing river enjoying themselves when they hear someone crying for help, caught in the current, trying not to drown. They swim out and rescue the person, pulling him back to shore. After a few minutes, they hear another cry for help, and again they all jump in. Then it happens again, and again, and again. The three are soaking wet, tired, and confused. One of them gets up and starts to walk away. “Where are you going?” the others ask in disbelief, imploring him to stay and help them rescue all these people. But the first one says he is going to walk upstream to understand why all these people are being thrown into the river in the first place. As an emergency room doctor, Alister Martin MPP/MD 2015 often feels like one of the friends, jumping into the river, shift after shift, attending to gunshot wounds, heart attacks, strokes, and the THE many patients who come to the ER with any ailment because they simply have no alternative. But he has also wandered upstream, combining his clinical work with a sharply analytical and deeply humane interest in what turns people into patients UPSTREAM and then launching e•ective and influential campaigns to instill change. To date, just two years after completing his residency, Martin has built successful national campaigns to enlist doctors in the SOLUTION battle against the opioid epidemic and to use health care settings as a nexus for voter registration. He is part of a wider movement Alister Martin MPP/MD 2015 wants to treat patients within medicine that believes that doctors should not be confined to the examination but also the body politic. His innovative campaigns room but should also be part of broader have straddled the worlds of medicine, public debates on issues that have obvious health care implications—such as gun public health, and social justice. violence, the criminal justice system, and economic inequality—and that they can be part of the solution. “We’re all sort of painting this mural together of what the future of health care looks like,” Martin says. BY ROBERT O'NEILL | PHOTO BY RAYCHEL CASEY “My role as an emergency room doctor doesn’t end at treating the emergencies; it extends to how to prevent them.” KAI PFAFFENBACH

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Just component of the way the department and the hospital approach Once again, Martin not only used his extensive support network at his exposure to policy at the Kennedy School and in short stints before Christmas break during his first year at HKS, Martin received a medicine. “Many of us can identify problems,” Brown says. “Some of us Mass General but also reached back to the Kennedy School for help. in public service, and perhaps most of all by a di‰cult childhood message that his father was fighting his own battle with a late cancer can suggest solutions. But very few of us can actually implement those He worked with MILES RAPOPORT, a former Connecticut secretary of and adolescence marked by many of the same di‰culties he now diagnosis and did not have long to live. He traveled immediately to be solutions. And that makes him unique in my mind.” state and a senior fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance dedicates himself to fixing. by his side. That time together helped Martin understand his father “I think he’s the ultimate example of multidisciplinary training,” and Innovation, who helped connect him with others, including and the choices he had made. “My going to be there for him in his says DAVID KING, a senior lecturer in public policy, who taught Martin philanthropies, in the democracy space. ALIYA BHATIA MPP 2018 is final days was a reflection of my mother’s strength, of all the kindness, and has remained close, advising him on his projects. “He’s obviously the organization’s chief operating ožcer. KATHRYN PETERS MPP love, and compassion she had instilled in me. I came to understand a very good doctor and has the personal qualities that one would 2011, of Democracy Works and TurboVote, helped Martin navigate MARTIN GREW UP IN A LOW-INCOME COMMUNITY in New Jersey. His my father, and by doing so, came to understand myself more clearly,” hope for in a physician—very good bedside manner, listens deeply and the practical challenges of registration. And ideas42, a Washington- mother—a biology teacher who had to work multiple jobs to keep the he says. Now his father’s Kennedy School degree hangs framed on analytically, and has an intuition about what the patient might need. based behavioral consulting group that counts numerous Kennedy lights on—raised him by herself. His father (whose story would later Martin’s wall next to his own. He takes the time to do an analysis of what’s ailing the body—and also School alumni among its ranks, helped VotER shape its strategy. That have an unexpected impact on Martin) left when Martin was very HKS expanded Martin’s understanding of the levers of change. what is ailing the body politic. Alister sees the political system as the strategy, which relied on kiosks in hospital waiting rooms, had to be young. His family’s experience with health care was similar to that of A period working in the Vermont governor’s o‰ce gave him insight body politic, and he sees individuals as part of a social system and a radically rethought when the pandemic hit. Now, in place of touchpads many of the patients he now sees: They were sometimes uninsured, into how health policy was crafted as a dialogue between decision- health system. So it only makes sense sometimes without a primary care doctor, sometimes simply unable makers and area experts, but it also showed him that only those who that they’re connected.” to get to a doctor’s o‰ce during the day. were politically involved could influence the process. But he never The body politic is precisely where “When your mom works until 8:00 p.m. every night, or when abandoned the idea of being a doctor, for the “bifocal vision” that Martin is now working through the health insurance is more a luxury than something that you rely on being in the emergency room gave him as well as for the satisfaction VotER campaign, which has helped and depend on,” Martin says, “if you have something that needs to of healing his patients. more than 48,000 people get ready to “We ask everyone be looked at, the answer is ‘We’re going to the emergency room.’ “I believe firmly in the concept that BRYAN STEVENSON [MPP/ vote through voter registration or by about smoking. Because for low-income, vulnerable communities, it’s the place that’s JD 1985] calls proximal leadership,” Martin says. “If you want to solve helping them receive a mail-in ballot, always there for you.” problems, you have to be close, you have to feel them and know the and has created a vast network of We ask about When Martin was 11, his mother was diagnosed with cancer. It impact and understand the stories. Once you understand the problem more than 25,000 doctors dedicated domestic was caught late, and he thought he was going to lose her. He saw the in as much detail as you can, and understand the nuance of it, you can to expanding their patients’ political doctors who treated and saved his mother as heroes. But his path to begin to see areas of solution—because ultimately it’s the people with participation. It was again an encounter violence. We medicine was tortuous. He was a smart kid. But he just wasn’t able to the problem who are the solution.” with a patient that kicked o— the should be asking see the future that studying could bring. Then, in his senior year in high initiative. This time the patient was folks if they’re school, he was expelled after he and a couple of friends got into a fight a woman who had fled an abusive with a gang, resulting in severe injuries. He was physically broken and relationship in another state, had lived registered to now couldn’t envision a path ahead. His mother tirelessly advocated DURING HIS FIRST OVERNIGHT SHIFT in an emergency room, Martin with a relative in Massachusetts for some vote in the next for him, and when she was unable to find a school that would accept came face-to-face with a problem: a woman who had become months, but now found herself homeless him, she took out a loan and sent him to a tennis academy in Florida addicted to opioids in just a few short weeks after a bad ankle with her two children. She came to the election.” famous for training Venus and Serena Williams after their move from fracture. She had become so dependent on the oxycodone she had emergency room late, afraid that it ALISTER MARTIN Compton, California—an earlier summer job as a janitor at a country been prescribed that she found a dealer. But the woman had decided was too cold for her children to spend club had introduced him to tennis. It was there that his life changed. He to take a stand, and that night she came to the emergency room another frigid night sleeping in their van. earned his GED and was recruited to Rutgers to play Division I tennis looking for help. Martin reached out to a and spent his first year holed up in the library (when not on the court), Martin, who had seen Vermont’s nationally famous opioid social worker, who told him that fearful of not being able to make it. addiction programs close up, was devastated when he learned there Massachusetts is a “right to shelter” state for families, meaning at centrally located kiosks, the 25,000 doctors across the country “I had this opportunity, this door that had creaked open,” Martin was nothing that he or the department could do for the woman—they that the woman and her children could be housed temporarily in who have registered with the program wear distinctive lanyards and says, remembering what felt like a second chance. “If I applied myself, couldn’t connect her to a treatment program or prescribe medication a hotel or a motel, but she needed proof of residency. Given her ID badges with QR codes designed to engage their patients and then I could make something of myself, and I sprinted through that open to help her fight her addiction. In the end, she had to be discharged. At unstable housing situation, the woman had nothing—not a check direct patients to a website where they can register. door.” His hard work paid o¢, and he was accepted to Harvard Medical the height of the opioid epidemic, this seemed like madness. stub or a utility bill or a Massachusetts driver’s license. But there The approach is nonpartisan. Martin believes it’s a logical School. He excelled clinically and would eventually be selected as chief Then Martin saw something he could do. An arcane rule required was something she could do: register to vote, as this would count continuation of what doctors have been doing. “We ask everyone resident of his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he emergency room doctors to obtain a special waiver from the federal as proof of residence in the state. A federal law passed in 1993 to about smoking,” he says. “We ask about domestic violence. We should now practices. But three years into his training—the year when medical Drug Enforcement Agency to prescribe buprenorphine, a drug that increase voter participation encourages places such as motor vehicle be asking folks if they’re registered to vote in the next election.” students step out of their classrooms and into the wards—Martin helps treat addiction by blunting both cravings and the pain of registration ožces and hospitals to register voters. The campaign is not only increasing registration, Martin says, began to chafe against the complex machinery of health economics withdrawal, but only one percent of ER physicians had that permission. Martin returned and asked the woman if she wanted to register to but also changing the way doctors think about their role and and what he saw as fundamental inequities in the way health care Combining elements of behavioral science and organizing that he vote. The woman, who was 27, said it was the first time she’d ever been “fundamentally changing the way that physicians are thinking about was delivered. It was during that time of doubt that he applied to had learned at HKS, Martin began the Get Waivered campaign, first asked. “I had chills up my back at the time,” Martin says. “I was like, ‘My solving problems.” He is aware that some people are critical of doctors’ the Kennedy School, looking for the tools and resources to help him enlisting leadership in his department and then building participation God, how many people, how many patients have I seen like her that taking on this role, either because they feel that doctors should “stay understand the deeper problems he was seeing. until 95 percent of emergency room doctors at Mass General had have not been registered?’ So I looked at the data: A Pew Research in their lane” or because they think it’s too political. But he tackles The Kennedy School also represented something more personal. received the certification. The program has expanded nationwide, survey back in 2018 found that 60 percent of voting-age eligible that argument head-on. “I’m acknowledging that this whole thing When he was 20, Martin met his father for the first time. The man including in partnership with states such as Texas and Nebraska. citizens who were not registered to vote had never been asked. There’s is political,” he says, “because health care is political. What we’re was not what Martin had expected (his mother had shared very David Brown, the chair of Mass General’s emergency medicine this whole lost continent of people—50 million people—not registered avoiding is the partisan part of it.” JONATHAN WIGGS/THE BOSTON GLOBE WIGGS/THE BOSTON JONATHAN

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WHAT’S BEHIND THE DAILY GRIND? Rethinking work for a post–COVID-19 world

BY NORA DELANEY

THIS PAST YEAR HAS ILLUMINATED THE FRAGILITY and failures of work in new ways. The coronavirus pandemic resulted in layo„s and furloughs for millions around the world. Some have lost their jobs in struggling or shifting industries and don’t have the skills to explore other fields. Many essential workers—from health aides to grocery clerks—have been forced to make grim trade-o„s between personal health and financial security. Unpredictable and stressful schedules, discriminatory and unfair organizational practices and procedures, and an inability to keep up with technological change are adding to a strain that workers feel both in the United States and across the globe. Kennedy School faculty members are taking on these daunting challenges. IRIS BOHNET, the Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government and academic dean of HKS, is leading a number of the e„orts. “Work has dramatically changed in the past 30 years, and workplaces really haven’t kept up,” she says. “So we need to have public policy address educational needs, new technological developments, and demand for equity, diversity, and inclusion.” Many of Bohnet’s colleagues across the School are engaged in activities to improve work for more people now and in the future. “Our work tackles policy challenges that arise from the changing nature of the labor market and the social fabric,” says DAVID DEMING, director of HKS’s Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, which focuses on domestic social policy issues, including work and economic security in the United States. These problems are not ILLUSTRATIONS BY just domestic, however. With shifting labor markets in countries around the world, economies

GEOFFROY DE CR´ECY unsettled by the pandemic, wage and skill gaps, the consequences of new technology, and persistent gender and racial inequity, now is the time to future-proof the way we work. “The pandemic has given us an opening to act,” Bohnet says. “Work is being reinvented as we speak, and we want our work to be part of that discussion.”

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Most recently, they have examined how practices—not just how well they pay their to customize supports for people and to link them directly using COVID-19 has worsened conditions for shift workers—many of whom workers or how good their benefits are but artificial intelligence,” Deming explains. In addition, a fragile economy are considered essential employees. In a study published in October, subtler patterns of behavior. struggling to recover from the pandemic means that more people are Schneider and his coauthor, Kristen Harknett, an associate professor Iris Bohnet has devoted much of her career as a out of work. “At the beginning of the pandemic, most employment at the University of California, San Francisco, found that only a quarter behavioral economist to investigating how to debias loss was temporary,” says Deming. “As it drags on, businesses shutter of service-sector workers who were laid o’ or furloughed at the organizations. In addition to serving as academic and more layo’s become permanent. We’re trying to help people get height of the spring lockdown received unemployment benefits in a dean, Bohnet is the faculty codirector of the Women reskilled for a di’erent job than the one they had before.” timely manner and that delays in those payments led to significant and Public Policy Program (WAPPP) and is heading The Project on Workforce responds to these problems in several hunger, greater housing insecurity, and deferred medical care. up the School’s new Gender Action Lab, which ways. For example, it has created a website called Skillbase, which will conduct research on debiasing the workplace features curated resources that provide skills to help people transition and share the resulting evidence and insights with to their next job. “Through Skillbase,” Deming says, “we are exploring employers and policymakers, giving them practical how job seekers can learn conversational English, digital literacy, and Keeping up with technology tools to create more-equitable organizations. other foundational skills. Our research examines whether working with “Many of our systems, our organizational Examining the factors that lead to employee well-being goes hand job centers across a bunch of states to make free, high-quality training practices, and our procedures have unintended in hand with responding to changes in technology that can either opportunities available to these folks can make a di’erence.” consequences, because they were built for a help or harm workers. Professor of the Practice of Government and Deming is also interested in examining how soft skills can di‡erent workforce,” Bohnet says. “About half a Technology LATANYA SWEENEY, who joined the Kennedy School be better developed. Although STEM skills get a lot more public century ago, almost 100 percent of doctors and this past year, thinks a lot about this issue. A computer scientist by attention, soft skills are often in short supply and high demand. lawyers were white men. A couple of years ago, training, she is ažliated with the Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center Deming says, “When you talk to employers, they say, ‘We need that fraction had been cut almost in half, and on Media, Politics and Public Policy and explores how technology can people who are dependable, good problem solvers, adaptable, good it keeps shrinking. But our talent-management help job seekers—and how it can leave them behind. at working in a team.’ We call these soft skills, and we don’t really procedures have not kept up.” Sweeney, who formerly served as chief technology ožcer at know how to measure them or how to develop them.” Deming has Bohnet, whose book What Works: Gender the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, also holds an appointment in also started an initiative called Skills Lab, which measures teamwork Equality by Design provides research-based Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and directs the Harvard Public and other capabilities. “We’re very excited about the immediate solutions for debiasing workplaces, says that Interest Technology Lab, which examines how bias can be removed application of this work,” he says, “especially for high-skilled jobs that many current HR practices and procedures can from our technology to create a more even playing field. Among do not require a college degree, in high-growth fields like health care, worsen inequality. For example, few companies use blind application- two coauthors—Isabelle Ferreras, of Catholic University of Louvain, in other projects, the lab studies algorithms used in hiring and employee information technology, and advanced manufacturing.” review processes, even though research suggests that when names Belgium, and Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program; and evaluations to determine whether they are biased. are removed from résumés, hiring managers are more likely to choose Dominique Méda, of Paris Dauphine University, in France—and more “As a computer scientist, I think this is a particularly amazing the best candidates rather than people they think “look the part.” than 6,000 people from across the globe, most of them academics, moment to be at the Kennedy School,” Sweeney says. She notes that Bohnet’s recent research also brought to light a worrying trend in cosigned it. The website democratizingwork.org captures the authors’ Supporting shift workers as technology becomes more sophisticated and innovative, it will performance-management processes. Many companies ask workers e‡orts, which have led to a published book. change many industries, especially manufacturing. “When it comes to to share self-evaluations with their managers before the latter Battilana says that the coronavirus pandemic spurred on this While skill training is crucial in helping people get better jobs, it is the future of work, I’ve been focusing on helping to bring American conduct reviews. Bohnet and her colleagues found that di‡erences in treatise about the need to rethink work. “Working humans are just as important to investigate which working conditions contribute manufacturing back,” she says. “Artificial intelligence and machine self-confidence related to gender, race, and cultural factors can a‡ect so much more than ‘resources,’” she and her coauthors argue. to employees’ quality of life. DANIEL SCHNEIDER, a professor of learning are about to change the face of manufacturing. So the employees’ self-evaluations and influence managers’ reviews in turn. “This is one of the central lessons of the current crisis.” They end public policy who recently joined the Kennedy School, focuses on question is: How can we harness the nature of this inevitable change “Asking people to self-evaluate and then share those self-evaluations, their manifesto with a clear call to action: “Democratize firms; hourly workers in the United States. He is a coprincipal investigator to revolutionize American manufacturing?” as we can tell from the data that we now have, can lead to a vicious decommodify work; stop treating human beings as resources so that of the Shift Project, housed at the Wiener Center, which collects and Sweeney thinks the answer may lie, in part, in sharing technology circle,” says Bohnet. we can focus together on sustaining life on this planet.” analyzes data on how shift work a’ects economic security, health, and tools openly. She uses artificial intelligence as an example: If Another Kennedy School scholar who believes that companies and well-being. you have an idea for an AI project, a wealth of free technology is need to change their organizational cultures and practices is JULIE Schneider is interested in the challenges that American workers in available online to help you. “The cost of entry is very low,” she says. BATTILANA, the faculty chair of the School’s Social Innovation the service sector—food services, grocery stores, fulfillment centers, “So our vision is to bring the same kind of benefit and opportunity to and Change Initiative. Battilana, who is also the Alan L. Gleitsman Giving people the skills and other areas—face. One problem, of course, is low wages, but manufacturers to create a ‘knowledge and tools commons’ to increase Professor of Social Innovation at the Kennedy School and holds a to succeed Schneider is just as interested in nonwage factors that negatively resiliency and international competitiveness.” faculty appointment at Harvard Business School, says that we should a’ect shift workers. “Hourly workers also contend with unstable and A major challenge, according to Sweeney, lies in how policies can democratize and decommodify work while making it greener. She laid David Deming, who is a professor at both the Kennedy School and the unpredictable work schedules—with hours that vary from week to be shaped to ensure that industries remain competitive, intellectual out her case last May in an op-ed that was published in more than 40 Harvard Graduate School of Education, believes we should focus on week and day to day, often with little advance notice and less worker property is protected, confidentiality and privacy are respected, newspapers in almost as many countries. She wrote the piece with better education and training to give people the skills for decent jobs control,” he says. “These unstable and unpredictable schedules and equity is promoted. “I specialize in unforeseen consequences of

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The attain roles or opportunities for which one may not be perceived as Morocco Employment Lab aims to help by both generating new traditionally qualified.” In a related project, Bowles is working with research and evaluations to specifically address the needs of policy a team of scholars and leaders in practice to support the academic “Many of our systems, and equipping policymakers with the tools to understand how data and career aspirations of female and minority students in technology our organizational and numbers can be used in their everyday policy decision making.” and engineering through negotiation training and other forms of One of Morocco’s main labor force challenges is a skills mismatch, leadership development. practices, and whereby highly educated workers have some of the highest our procedures unemployment rates, because they don’t specialize in areas with a large labor force demand, and the labor market isn’t producing have unintended enough jobs in high-skill sectors. Using the Smart Policy Design Getting mayors on board and Implementation (SPDI) framework that EPoD developed, the consequences, Policymakers and public leaders at all levels of government can be Morocco Employment Lab is working with policymakers in the because they were powerful allies in helping vulnerable demographics in the workforce. country to diagnose underlying drivers of the challenge and then Focusing on the United States, STEPHEN GOLDSMITH—a former mayor built for a dierent design, implement, and evaluate solutions to reduce the skills of Indianapolis and a former deputy mayor of New York—is looking at mismatch. “EPoD focuses on finding the right question to evaluate,” workforce. ... Our how mayors can help workers in their cities succeed. says Hanna. “This comes from using economic theory and deep Goldsmith, the Derek Bok Professor of the Practice of Urban talent-management qualitative work to assess the policy problems being faced and to Policy and director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance understand what is driving these problems.” procedures have not and Innovation’s Data-Smart City Solutions, is currently involved in One issue Hanna and her colleagues want to address is the a project that enables cities to identify opportunities for developing kept up.” labor force gender gap, which is a serious problem in the region. their workforce. “We have 10 mayors and senior leaders involved with IRIS BOHNET In Morocco, only 21 percent of women are in the workforce. In the United Negro College Fund (UNCF),” he explains. The project is contrast, male labor force participation was above 70 percent in designed to look at better opportunities, particularly for young men 2019. COVID-19 is only worsening this disparity as more women find and women of color, recognizing and building on their skills in order themselves at home without childcare and many are losing their to produce more opportunity. “The pilot project in Atlanta involves jobs during lockdowns. By working closely with policymakers and a collaborative featuring the mayor’s o£ce, and managed by the civil servants, the researchers at the Morocco Employment Lab aim UNCF, that uses real-time regional data to identify local upskilling technology,” she says. “The reemergence of manufacturing not only responses will be needed to address these problems e ectively, to support vulnerable workers—especially young people, women, opportunities and then fill in the gaps between the better jobs and has all those kinds of consequences, but it also demands a diverse and including government subsidies that encourage employers not to lay and those a†ected by COVID-19—by helping to design labor market the skills of workers,” Goldsmith says. He is enthusiastic about how inclusive workforce.” Sweeney believes that addressing unconscious o their workers during lockdowns. Training and education also play policies backed by research. the project can be an asset to mayors and other local leaders across bias in hiring algorithms and other forms of workplace technology a role in helping workers at risk of losing their jobs to automation, and the United States. can help. “My work was among the first to show discrimination by Nedelkoska sees community colleges as a steppingstone to long-term In addition to his work with the UNCF, Goldsmith has been algorithm,” she notes. “We work with that lens—all the way down to employability and job security for vulnerable workers. advising mayors on issues related to transportation. He sees a the sensors and all the way up through the policy and economics.” Advancing women’s connection between the future of work and mobility. Just prior to The policy challenges that come with automation are also very career aspirations the pandemic, Goldsmith coauthored a pair of papers about how much on the mind of LJUBICA NEDELKOSKA, a research fellow at the innovations in this area can help the urban working poor. “The current Growth Lab, part of the School’s Center for International Development Preparing policymakers Women have proved to be a particularly vulnerable demographic transportation patterns in our country’s large cities are not very (CID). She studies the impact of automation on the labor market and during the public health crisis. A research team at WAPPP is studying in Morocco friendly to struggling workers,” he says. “They have long commute the e ect of plant closures and mass layo s on people’s long-term how the childcare crisis created by the pandemic is a†ecting men’s times for jobs that cannot pay well. If you’re in a big city and you have earnings and employment success. Nedelkoska says that when it Researchers at CID’s Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) are also and women’s workforce participation in the United States. “The to spend an hour commuting for a low-wage job, that’s a lot of your comes to work, “technology has the power to help and harm, and the focused on improving training and giving workers skills that can aid sudden and sustained backflow of childcare and educational labor potential earning stuck in the subway or the bus.” In Goldsmith’s view, impacts are likely to be very unequally distributed.” economic mobility. EPoD and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action into the home is constraining women’s labor market participation city leaders can play a role in improving mobility patterns and helping One way it has helped is by enabling many employees to work Lab (J-PAL) are developing a hub for evidence-based labor market more than men’s,” says HANNAH RILEY BOWLES, WAPPP’s their workforce at the same time. during the pandemic using low-cost personal computers, high-speed innovation in Morocco called the Morocco Employment Lab. REMA codirector and the Roy E. Larsen Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Ultimately, there is a lot to do to improve the way we work, internet, high-quality conferencing software, and cloud computing. HANNA, the Je rey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies at the Management. Bowles is researching how organizational practices from getting job seekers the right training, to understanding the “Technology is one of the reasons we are able to speed up the Kennedy School, leads the project with her colleague Bruno Crépon, and policies may help or hinder caregivers’ capacity to remain fully unforeseen consequences of technology, to examining the conditions delivery of a secure COVID-19 vaccine,” Nedelkoska says. “However, the scientific director of J-PAL Middle East and North Africa. employed in the midst and aftermath of the pandemic. that help or harm vulnerable workers, to putting the onus on the pandemic is also increasing incentives for automation in some The lab aims to promote a culture of evidence-based policymaking Bowles is also engaged in research and programming aimed employers to make their practices more inclusive. But fortunately, sectors: transportation, services, production. Consumers would like in Morocco through policy-research engagements and capacity at building women’s capacity to pursue their career aspirations faculty members and other experts across the Kennedy School are to see these sectors up and running, even if it comes at the cost of building, giving policymakers the tools and knowledge to better through negotiation training to raise pay, manage work-family focused on just these issues. replacing people with robots.” address labor market challenges. “In many countries, getting the right conflicts, and pursue expanded work roles and developmental As Bohnet says, “We believe that the Kennedy School in fact is the The risk, according to Nedelkoska, is that technology will data to inform policy was tough due to a lack of data,” Hanna says. opportunities. “Our research suggests that negotiation is a critical perfect hub for our work.” contribute to social and economic inequality. 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Over a decades-long career, Bill Clark has helped build the foundations of the field of sustainability.

BILL CLARK’S PURSUIT OF

BY CRISTINE RUSSELL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

PHOTOS BY RAYCHEL CASEY PUTTING SCIENCE INTO PRACTICE

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It explored sustainable development as an ežort the Biden-Harris administration is going to pay more attention understands that universities depend on evidence in making under rocks, and catching critters, preferably snakes. to meet “the needs of the present without compromising to science, justice, and the common good. I’m hopeful for better choices. He has worked tirelessly to collect and use evidence about As a Yale college student in the late 1960s—pulled the ability of future generations to meet their own needs,” a days ahead. The long-term quest for sustainable development has what’s happening in the world and what actions the Kennedy between ecology and political science—he worked on formulation of sustainability goals first advanced in 1987 by the obviously been severely damaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, as it School and the University can take for the world.” HEATHER environmental policy in New York City under Mayor World Commission on Environment and Development. With his has by earlier pandemics, economic collapses, and wars. We have HENRIKSEN MC/MPA 2008, who has led the University’s O–ce for John Lindsay and in Washington, D.C., for the federal coauthors of the 2016 book, Clark echoed that commission’s call to get through this shock in ways that help people today while Sustainability since 2008, says, “Harvard would not be where we government of Richard Nixon. In grad school in the for global action, urging “informed agitation” to meet sustainable rebuilding in ways that will help people tomorrow to cope better are on sustainability today without Bill Clark. He has been such a 1970s, Clark studied resource management, shinnying development challenges ahead. “Our ability to prosper now and with the shocks that the future inevitably holds for them.” pioneer and visionary.” up balsam fir trees and using computer modeling to in the future,” they wrote, “requires increased attention not just to Clark is encouraged that global progress is underway as Clark cochaired the first two University-wide greenhouse gas an increasing number of organizations—from communities to emission task forces under President Emeritus Drew Gilpin Faust. understand how rare but catastrophic insect outbreaks economic and social progress but also to conserving Earth’s life support systems: the fundamental environmental processes and corporations to countries—draw up and implement sustainability Harvard adopted the 2008 task force recommendation to reduce periodically destroyed boreal forests and forest-based natural resources on which our hopes for prosperity depend.” plans, measure how well they are doing in achieving their goals, the University’s carbon footprint by 30 percent by 2016 (from a jobs in eastern Canada and the United States. The book, together with an ongoing online update of the and provide more transparency about their e•orts. Stakeholders 2006 baseline)—an ambitious target that was met on time, says Those early experiences led to Clark’s lifelong interest in field edited by Clark and ALICIA HARLEY PHD 2018, summarize in the activities of these organizations are demanding more Henriksen, who first met Clark when she was a Kennedy School applying scientific knowledge to public problems, particularly the an emerging framework for pursuing sustainability grounded in a accountability on the sustainability front. Local governments set student. That was achieved by changing energy supply and need to promote responsible stewardship of planet Earth through sustainable development. As a young scientist, he ran one of the first government reviews of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, won a 1983 MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant, and directed an ambitious new program, “Sustainable Development of the Biosphere,” at an international think tank in Austria. Clark was ahead of his time, a pioneer in a field in which he has had a profound impact throughout his 45-year career, which includes more than three decades at the Kennedy School. Today “sustainability” is a ubiquitous idea, with ambitious sustainable- development goals being set by businesses, universities, nonprofits, and governments around the world. “There’s been a transformative revolution at all levels, from individuals to global organizations,” says Clark, as people “take notice of how our present actions can damage our neighbors today and our children in the future.” Increasingly, people “accept responsibility to act on that knowledge,” he adds. “A new norm is emerging for sustainable development.” “Bill helped create the foundation of the house that the field broad set of resources or capital assets. Clark’s academic targets for everything from building e–ciency to public transit. demand, including building e–ciency, cleaner on- and o•-site of sustainability is built upon. He’s made enormous contributions,” These include not only natural capital accomplishments have come Universities develop plans for greener buildings, a reduced energy sources, and more renewable energy. Harvard’s latest says HKS colleague HENRY LEE, Jassim M. Jaidah Family Director (land, ecosystems, climate) but also hand in hand with his practical carbon footprint, and more-equitable access to their teaching and Climate Action Plan seeks to make the University fossil fuel–neutral of the Belfer Center’s Environment and Natural Resources human capital (population size and work in making Harvard research. by 2026 and fossil fuel–free by 2050: aggressive targets based on Program. Longtime HKS Professor JOHN HOLDREN, a former distribution, education and health), University a more sustainable Since coming to the Kennedy School, in 1987, Clark has kept recommendations from the 2016–2017 Climate Change Task Force. science advisor to President Barack Obama, says, “Bill Clark has manufactured capital (buildings and institution. sustainability at the forefront of his work. He was the founding Clark was also a faculty cochair of a committee that created a deeper understanding of the science of sustainability and the infrastructure), social capital (culture, director of Harvard’s Sustainability Science Program, which has the 2015 Harvard University Sustainability Plan, which addressed intersection with public policy than anyone else I know.” Stanford norms, rules), and knowledge capital. Together, these assets cultivated a generation of scholars and practitioners, training more energy use, water use, waste, and landscaping. Annual reports University Professor and former Dean Pamela Matson, who started constitute the foundations on which well-being can be built—but than 140 fellows since its start, in 2006. He has continued his own and an online sustainability data hub provide transparent updates working with Clark in the late 1990s on a National Academy of only by those with access to them. For sustainability, the capacity research through a “Sustainability Science” project that has sought on how well Harvard is doing. Clark is currently co-chairing for Sciences Board on Sustainable Development, says, “Bill has the of these assets to support development must be conserved into to promote research and technological innovations that can inform President Lawrence Bacow a committee to formulate a second- ability to bring everyone to the table, harnessing their ideas and the future and access to them must be more equitably distributed. practice in areas such as agriculture, health, and energy. Clark has generation sustainability plan for 2021–2030. It will expand the knowledge in ways that advance science and problem-solving.” Many of these foundational assets, however, are now being also long been a leader in Harvard’s University-wide climate and first plan to include issues such as healthy buildings, food services, Clark cochaired a major National Academy study, “Our Common threatened by human activities that degrade not only our climate sustainability e•orts as well as those at HKS. air travel, investments, and overall well-being of the greater Journey: A Transition toward Sustainability,” that helped launch and ecosystems but also our trust in knowledge and institutions. “Bill Clark has been a very important leader of the University Harvard community. “We are on track to complete our initial report

sustainability science in the United States and around the world. And access to them is becoming more rather than less inequitable. STEWART | MARTHA CASEY RAYCHEL and Kennedy School e•orts to become more sustainable,” by the end of this academic year,” he says.

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Bill has couple, who met in the early 1970s at the International Institute for taught me how to think about these problems in ways I had not Applied Systems Analysis outside Vienna, have been married for thought of before.” 40 years and have two sons, Adam and Graham. Clark has also served as the longtime faculty area chair of the At the end of this academic year, Clark will start a new Kennedy School’s International and Global A™airs (IGA) program. chapter. He’ll retire from his longtime HKS duties in teaching and Most recently, at Elmendorf’s request, he has co-led an e™ort to administration and move to research professor status, with far evaluate HKS course o™erings and activities in the broad climate more time to pursue lifelong sustainability interests and be with domain, an area of key concern to students. family. “He told me he wanted to retire when he was still young “Bill has an extraordinary degree of determination to get enough to scamper up and down mountains,” says Elmendorf. the job done,” says Holdren, Teresa and John Heinz Professor of “I’m going to miss Bill terribly. But he will remain a part of our Environmental Policy at HKS. “He’s an iron fist in a velvet glove community.” who works well with others in a very collegial way. He’s a pillar of commitment and performance.” Amanda Sardonis, the associate director of the School’s Environment and Natural Resources Program, says, “Bill has very strong views and can be provocative. But he also recognizes that real progress is made through collaboration, good will, and determination. And when goals are met, he’s quick to give praise, share credit, and encourage celebration.” Teaching has also been a key priority for Clark, who is particularly proud of teaching awards he has received at both HKS and the College. One of his students was Alicia Harley, who met Clark in 2005 during her freshman year at Harvard, took his environmental policy course, and later earned a PhD in public policy under him. “He’s an incredibly driven intellect who moves fast to connect ideas,” says Harley, who coteaches Clark’s undergraduate sustainability course and coauthored with him a recent review of sustainability science. “He expects rigor from his students, but he’s incredibly compassionate.” Beyond Harvard, “he’s a star in the field of sustainability science,” she says. Clark says he also wants Clark’s life personifies the As a world-recognized expert on sustainability science to make way for more-junior adage “Think globally, act and its applications, Clark has long juggled his professional faculty members: “I personally locally.” He puts into practice responsibilities at Harvard with diverse global sustainability accepted a moral obligation what he preaches. “There’s been a transformative revolution at all levels, from projects in agriculture, public health, natural resource to get out of the way and give management, ecosystem services, and climate change. His others the opportunities I had.” But he will continue to fight the individuals to global organizations, [as people] take notice lengthy list of accolades includes election to the prestigious good fight on the sustainability front. “Bill’s very passionate of how our present actions can damage our neighbors today National Academy of Sciences in 2002 as a “premier analyst” of about the injustices and inequities in the world,” says Harley. “But “environmental science and policy.” fundamentally, he’s an optimist. You can’t devote yourself to the and our children in the future. [Increasingly, people] accept Clark’s life personifies the adage “Think globally, act locally.” science of how to get the world to a better, more sustainable responsibility to act on that knowledge. A new norm is He puts into practice what he preaches. He has long biked place without believing it’s possible.” emerging for sustainable development.” to campus or taken public transportation from his home in — Watertown. Harley recalls a time when Clark arrived to teach BILL CLARK his sustainability course with a bloody leg from a bike accident, Cristine Russell, a longtime science journalist, is a senior fellow which he ignored until class was over. He and his wife, Anni, at the Kennedy School’s Environment and Natural Resources who is retired from a career in finance, own one car, a hybrid Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Aairs.

RAYCHEL CASEY RAYCHEL UNIVERSITY KRIS SNIBBE/HARVARD plug-in Prius. “She is my conscience and a practical genius in Follow her on Twitter @russellcris.

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Humans are producing more plastic than stations as ubiquitous as water-refill to see when they will arrive pump is half a sachet— ever before, with almost 360 million metric dispensers. The company launched in in their neighborhood; so you don’t even need tons created in 2018—and half of this plastic Indonesia because that nation, in addition to they can also order via a full sachet, and you is for single-use purposes, such as sachets. having a vibrant startup scene, is the world’s WhatsApp. For customers can use less. A lot of On its current trajectory, global production is second-largest ocean polluter, after China. In without mobile phones, disposable bottles expected to double in just 20 years. Despite Indonesia, sachets and wrappers account for Siklus is “kind of like an ice “Siklus is are designed so you eŽorts to recycle, much of that plastic finds almost 20 percent of the plastic items found cream truck,” von Rabenau kind of like overuse the product.” its way to landfills and oceans. Researchers on the nation’s beaches by waste pickers. says. “We can cover a Although the estimate that the ocean contains 15 trillion Von Rabenau says her HKS network gave larger area than we could an ice cream pandemic has made tons of plastic particles, some of which her the courage she needed to move to a with vending machines, truck.” it more di˜cult to inevitably work their way into the food chain country where she knew no one. “In the end, and people just have to conduct in-person JANE VON RABENAU and back to people. part of the reason I had the guts to do this walk outside their door. research with Sachets create both environmental and is that I saw a bunch of social entrepreneurs Especially during COVID, customers, Siklus is economic problems: They are made from at HKS who did similar things—they saw a people are happier not to have to leave their pushing forward. It has raised a pre-seed a plastic-metal laminate that cannot be problem and wanted to solve it,” she says. homes.” The company is testing a stationary round of capital and also has received economically recycled, leading to pollution, When von Rabenau first had the model—“not a vending machine but a funding from angel investors and venture especially in the ocean, and they impose a idea for Siklus, she envisioned vending service operated by shop owners”—much capitalists plus grants from the U.S. Agency “poverty tax” because users pay more to machines that people would visit to refill like the water-refill stations she saw in the for International Development and others. buy less product. their containers. But she pivoted from Philippines. The company is working with some of Siklus, a startup von Rabenau launched vending machines to delivery via tricycles Siklus’s research consists of lots of the world’s largest consumer goods in 2019, is working to address that problem. because it was more convenient for users, conversations with many customers. “The manufacturers to provide products. Based in Indonesia, Siklus (the Indonesian less expensive than investing in multiple truth is, today we have people who don’t “Things are coming together. It wasn’t word for "cycle") is attempting to replace vending machines, and, as COVID-19 struck, want to switch to refillable bottles because, easy,” says von Rabenau, who financed the the ubiquitous sachet with an innovative and delivery had the added benefit of being they say, if they buy a whole bottle, they company on her credit card before she put easily available dispensing system. more hygienic. will use too much and it will end up costing together other funding sources. “We didn’t While Siklus’s roots lie in that formative Today, Siklus has 10 full-time employees them too much,” says von Rabenau. “They have a lot of evidence yet, just an idea”—an experience in India, it was at HKS where and several hundred customers weekly. like the portioning of the sachets. We are idea that will help people in poverty while von Rabenau’s idea germinated. She applied Customers can follow the tricycles on an app working on better bottle designs so one improving our environment. to the Kennedy School knowing that she Saving the ocean, wanted to pivot to the environment while still working on poverty issues. She decided to do her Second-Year Policy Analysis (SYPA) one sachet at a time on plastic pollution in the Philippines. “The SYPA was about what the government could do, such as tax plastics. But there I saw, once BY MARI MEGIAS again, the pollution from sachets.” Von Rabenau also noticed something that gave her an idea: “I saw these water- JANE VON RABENAU MPA/ID 2019 was working as a researcher in low-income refill stations in mom-and-pop stores. It’s areas in south India in 2015 when the region was hit by terrible floods. About common in Asia that you have 20-liter 1.8 million people were displaced. “It was the first time I experienced an containers of water with dispensers. It’s a environmental catastrophe,” says von Rabenau. In some neighborhoods, the little like candy machines, where you put a worst damage appeared to be caused by trash buildup, which blocked drains. coin in and you turn it. People would come One notable culprit was the lowly sachet. and fill up their water bottles, because bottled water is crazy expensive. For a Many low-income people in the developing world use small, single-use RABENAU

600-milliliter water bottle, you’re essentially VON packets for items such as shampoo and detergent—sachets, as they’re known, paying for the plastic. And I thought, why containing only 10 milliliters, or one-third of an ounce, of liquid. For people who can’t we do this with products that are do not have the funds or storage space to buy larger containers, they’re a perfect typically sold in sachets?” solution. In Indonesia, for example, 70 percent of detergent is sold this way. Siklus aims to make product-refill PHOTOS COURTESY OF JANE 30 www.hks.harvard.edu WINTER 2021 | HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL 31

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[It was wrong] “to hand over Master of Public Policy degrees to people who were no smarter in many cases in understanding how the real world works with racism and power … the day they leave the School than the day they arrived.” KHALIL GIBRAN MUHAMMAD

(Left) A man's reflection in the door of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, the nation's first site to document racial inequality in America from slavery through Jim Crow to the issues of today. (Above) Men drinking at segregated water fountains in the 1930s; a detail from an exhibit about discriminatory housing practices.

race, and justice, is the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim processes to attract more faculty members and students Professor of Criminal Justice at HKS and the Carol K. of color; and adding courses and case studies on aspects Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcli‡e Institute. She also of race and policy. directs the Kennedy School’s Program in Criminal Justice Muhammad, who also arrived in 2016, has been a A NEEDED COURSE Policy and Management. vocal critic of what he calls the School’s inaction on race The first-year MPP students began each day with and racism in its course o‡erings and its recruitment of two hours of class together online. Then they spent the faculty and students, saying the administration in the past Mandatory course for arriving Master in Public Policy next six hours on their own and in small virtual groups, simply waited out activist students until they graduated students combines history, sociology, and public policy absorbing a syllabus chock-full of readings, videos, and and moved on. He feels it was wrong “to hand over Master podcasts. For many students, this was their first formal of Public Policy degrees to people who were no smarter learning about race and racism and the role they play in in many cases in understanding how the real world works BY JAMES F. SMITH American society. with racism and power, how capitalism intersects with all The course is one of a series of steps by the School of that, how colonialism still shapes the maldistribution of to equip students with the knowledge to understand and resources, the day they leave the School than the day they IN SEPTEMBER, ALL 241 INCOMING Master in Public Policy United States, including the legacy of slavery. Muhammad, confront racism in their careers as public leaders and arrived.” students at Harvard Kennedy School began their two- a historian who contributed to the New York Times 1619 policymakers. Over the years, students and alumni have Two years ago, Muhammad founded the Institutional year academic program by taking a new required core Project on this subject, is a professor of called for more action on racial diversity, more teaching Antiracism and Accountability Project at the School’s course on race and public policy in the United States. history, race, and public policy at HKS on racism, and more attention to issues of systemic Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, The intensive two-week course, “Race and Racism in and the Suzanne Young Murray Professor racism. with a focus on researching how to address racism in the Making of the United States as a Global Power,” was at Harvard’s Radcli e Institute for Soon after he joined HKS, in 2016, Dean DOUG organizations. The project hosted its inaugural conference, developed and taught by HKS Professors KHALIL GIBRAN Advanced Study. ELMENDORF formed a task force to come up with “Truth and Transformation,” last year and invited alumni MUHAMMAD (right, top) and SANDRA SUSAN SMITH Then, during the second week, recommendations for how to enhance diversity in the to share their experiences advocating for diversity and (right, bottom), with the stated goal of ensuring that Smith took the lead, injecting a social student body, the faculty, and the sta‡ and to foster racial equity at the School. It recently held its second students learn how and why race and racism are not just science perspective on the contemporary an inclusive environment at the School. One task force annual conference and has launched a web portal curating aberrational artifacts of the past but lie “at the heart of challenges of American racism, including finding was that the percentage of African American resources on racism research and policy. the American project”—learning that the School considers the ways it a ects public policy and students at the School had declined in preceding years. Students and alumni also have pressed for more important for e ective public leaders in the 21st century. drives inequalities in justice, housing, Among many actions the School has taken since then attention to race and policy in recent years. This became In the first week of the course, Muhammad immersed education, and economic well-being. are creating the new role of associate dean of diversity, more urgent this year, particularly in the wake of the

the students in the 400-year history of racism in the Smith, a sociologist who studies poverty, STEWART MARTHA BY PORTRAITS | FACULTY ANDERSON BRYNN CASEY | RAYCHEL COLLECTION NYPL DIGITAL inclusion, and belonging; revamping recruitment police killing of George Floyd and others and the global

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attention on structural racism in the United States. The policy across a whole set of issues, including health care, School’s response included launching the new race and education, criminal justice, technology, public leadership The mistreatment of minorities spans generations and racial and ethnic groups. Japanese Americans protest against the incarceration of migrant children at the public policy course. The School will use lessons learned broadly, and more.” Among those faculty members is site of a World War II internment camp. during the two-week intensive pilot course to consider Sandra Smith, who was recruited to Harvard from the how best to structure the course and extend the material University of California at Berkeley—and arrived only among students. in July. She is the first Black woman tenured at the Elmendorf says, “I want to give credit to the many School and only the fourth Black tenured professor strength of the course was connecting history with current of not only what is going on but why it is going on.” She students and faculty and sta members who have worked ever. She and Muhammad developed the course and its issues. “Professors Smith and Muhammad connected says she wished the lessons had also o—ered more global over many years to make a compelling case for changes dense curriculum over the summer—and dealt with the those dots so explicitly, and again, and again, and in such perspectives on racism. To have time for that, she thinks, at the School to increase our eectiveness in addressing additional challenges of teaching online to students from ways that it finally really built up what I feel like is a more the curriculum might be better handled as a semester- these social problems, and who have worked with me and dozens of countries and time zones. accurate picture of America’s history, and I valued that so long course, with more time for historical context and other administrators over time to develop and implement “We weren’t shy about being very clear about how much,” he says. Batson said he was left hungry to learn cross-border comparisons. changes.” deeply we think racism operates in this country, and I more about the current policy implications flowing from AERIAL ADAMS MPP 2023, who started her MPP The School now oers about 15 degree-program think in most disciplines in the United States you just don’t the racism debate, such as reparations or other options program after graduating from Howard University in May, courses dealing with issues of race and racism. Another have these kinds of conversations,” Smith says. “I thought that may not yet be on the table. “I know nobody has says that given the emotion-charged issues, it was tough new initiative is the William Monroe Trotter Collaborative we were very frank. I have to say that because of this those answers,” he says, “but I wish we could have gotten at times not to be on campus in person because of the on Social Justice, founded and led by CORNELL WILLIAM moment, and what people were calling a reckoning, I felt a little bit more into what may lie ahead.” pandemic and have the chance to talk things through BROOKS, the Hauser Professor of the Practice of Nonprofit free to do the kind of course that I wanted to do—and that With nearly a third of MPP students coming from with classmates and professors. As a result, she says, a Organizations and a former president of the NAACP, who on some level I’ve always wanted to do.” outside the United States, Muhammad says, the few tense moments went unresolved. Still, “more schools joined HKS in 2018. In addition, the School is increasing its She says the majority of students came into the administration’s long-standing concerns about whether should absolutely have a race and racism course, however oerings on the topic in executive education. Professor class with very limited knowledge of the subject. “And the international students would connect with the U.S- they name it. They need the course.” Although she, too, ROBERT LIVINGSTON, who joined HKS in 2015, chaired an I suspect, too, that even those who came in feeling as if focused material proved generally unwarranted. DENISSE felt the course should have been longer, Adams says, “My executive education program, “Promoting Racial Equity in they knew quite a bit about race and racism in America DE LA PEÑA MPP 2022, who took the course from her very initial impression was that I was happy that HKS was the Workplace,” in January 2021. ended up feeling like they actually didn’t know very much home in Saltillo, Mexico, says people come to Harvard doing something—just even having the course to begin Elmendorf explains his approach: “The first, absolutely at all. And this course did a lot to fill major gaps in their in part to understand the United States: “Learning with was a huge step for me,” she said, “not because they crucial change we have made over the last three years understanding, both from the past and what that has about race and racism is crucial to anyone who wants to are educating me as a Black person but because they’re is appointing roughly a dozen faculty members whose meant in the contemporary moment.” understand American society. The readings were really ensuring that the people they put out into the world are J. PAT CARTER PAT J. teaching, research, and outreach address race and public One student, AUSTIN BATSON MPP 2022, said a | MANDEL NGAN/AFP OF CONGRESS LIBRARY helpful. They gave us, in just two weeks, the whole picture also getting that education.”

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Lynching and Local Justice winner for his 2013 history of the now. Finally, he investigates the core terms of this view, including The Upswing Legitimacy and Accountability in Weak States roots of the Vietnam War, Logevall stringency, moral value, grounds, and duties of justice. How America Came Together a Century Ago and How Dara Kay Cohen, Ford Foundation Associate Professor of this time tackles the early life of the “The proposal I make,” Risse writes, “is that the perennial quest for We Can Do It Again 35th president of the United States justice is about making sure each individual has an appropriate place Public Policy; Danielle F. Jung, Emory University Robert Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public (and namesake of Harvard Kennedy in what our uniquely human capacities permit us to build, produce, Policy, Emeritus; Shaylyn Romney Garrett School). Over more than 700 pages, and maintain, and that each individual is respected appropriately for he covers the years from Kennedy’s their capacities to hold such a place to begin with.” That basic idea DARA KAY COHEN IS A POLITICAL SCIENTIST whose research has often birth and sickly childhood in Brookline, has taken numerous forms in varying contexts. Risse writes, “The focused on the causes and consequences of violence during war Massachusetts, to his failed bid for the last 50 years have seen wide-ranging discussions about distributive A WEALTHY COUNTRY, a technologically advanced country, and in fragile contexts. In her latest book, Lynching and Local vice-presidential nomination in 1956; a justice: The topic has been vital to political philosophy in ways it had but also a country marked by economic inequality, political Justice: Legitimacy and Accountability in Weak States, Cohen second volume will explore Kennedy’s never been before in any 50-year period. … At the same time, many division, and social friction. Anyone who is inclined to feel that and her coauthor, Danielle F. Jung, the current moment is low tide in America, and who might look JUNG AND COHEN rise to become the nation’s fi rst Catholic have resisted the central role justice has assumed in political thought.” What are the social and political consequences of poor state governance and low state legitimacy? Under what conditions does lynching – lethal, extralegal group violence to punish examine the practice of lynching longingly at a mid-century high- oenses to the community – become an acceptable practice? president through to his assassination, Risse’s response to that resistance is to provide for the present age a We argue lynching emerges when neither the state nor its challengers have a monopoly over legitimate authority. When Political Economy authority is contested or ambiguous, mass punishment for as a form of extralegal justice in water mark, may be heartened to transgressions can emerge that is public, brutal, and requires in 1963. Logevall, the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International more plausible conception of distributive justice that learns from its broad participation. Using new cross-national data, we demonstrate lynching is a persistent problem in dozens of countries over the last four decades. Drawing on original survey nations that struggle with poor learn that this description was of and interview data from Haiti and South Africa, we show that Lynching and Local Justice A” airs at Harvard Kennedy School and a professor of history in the critics. But his key conclusion is that distributive justice remains central which actors provide governance is associated with perceptions of their legitimacy, and in turn how lynching emerges and Lynching and becomes accepted. Specifically, support for lynching most governance and weak legitimacy the United States in the Gilded likely in one of three conditions: when states fail to provide Faculty of Arts and Sciences, says he deliberately set out to weave for any kind of ideal of society. While On Justice is a continuation governance, when nonstate actors provide social services, or Local Justice when community members must rely on self-help. in the contemporary world. They Kennedy’s personal story into the broader fabric of U.S. ascendance of ideas explored in Risse’s earlier works, it is also a thorough and Age. In other words, as Peter and About the Series Series Editors The Element Series Political Economy David Stasavage provides authoritative contributions on New York University argue that the frequency and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public important topics in the rapidly growing on the global stage during and after World War II. He explains how thought-provoking stand-alone examination of distributive justice. field of political economy. Danielle F. Jung Elements are designed so as to provide widespread acceptance of lynching Policy Robert Putnam so carefully broad and in depth coverage combined and Kennedy formed his internationalist worldview during his Harvard days, œ— with original insights from scholars in political science, economics, and Dara Kay Cohen economic history. Contributions are in the modern world is both horrific and compellingly lays out in his welcome on any topic within this field. youthful European wanderings, and World War II combat as a navy and puzzling. Using data from o— cer. The book dispels the conventional view that he was driven into new book, we’ve been here before countries across the globe, they Leaders Who Lust politics by his domineering father. Instead, Logevall makes the case that and found a way out, and if we are fi nd high levels of lynching and Power, Money, Sex, Success, Legitimacy, Legacy Cover image: Shutterstock / Number1411 ISSN 2398-4031 (online) to make of this present moment ISSN 2514-3816 (print) Kennedy, for all his personal failings and infi delities, was imbued with a collective vigilantism—which they Barbara Kellerman, James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public deep sense of public purpose and service from his childhood. The book a hinge point, it is invaluable to defi ne as lethal, extralegal group violence to punish o” enses to the also portrays him as a man of relentless intellectual curiosity who broke Leadership; Todd Pittinsky, Stony Brook University understand other moments when community—in 46 countries from 1976 to 2013, and at least some with his father and his close-knit family on critical choices. “On matters the country shifted radically. reports of lynching in more than 100 countries during that period. of politics and policy, JFK was his own master,” Logevall writes. The Upswing o‘ ers a unifi ed theory of contemporary Drawing on detailed original survey and focus-group data collected œ— “IN THE MAIN, the leadership industry remains anchored in the American history, fi tting from a scholar who has devoted his during fi eldwork in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Cohen and Jung observe supposition that people generally are rational creatures who act in academic life to studying what holds the country together and that lynching and other forms of collective vigilantism carried out in their own, rational, self-interest.” So write leadership expert Barbara who has been called the “national bard of community.” Putnam the name of justice occurred more frequently when people had little On Justice: Philosophy, History, Foundations Kellerman and her coauthor (and former Kennedy School faculty and his coauthor, Shaylyn Romney Garrett, painstakingly measure trust in the government’s authority and ability to provide basic social Mathias Risse, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public member), Todd Pittinsky. But leadership and trace the country’s path—economic, political, cultural, and services, such as sanitation. This pattern suggests that there may Administration; Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy as it is, not as we would like it to be, is the social—from the low point of the late 19th century through six be spillover e” ects across di” erent types of weak institutions; weak focus of their new book, which studies decades of progress and then down again. It’s a phenomenon formal institutions that are unrelated to the rule of law are associated the phenomenon of leadership that is the authors call the I-we-I curve: “a gradual climb into greater with greater approval of lynching. Lynching and Local Justice sheds IN HIS NEW BOOK, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Philosophy and not balanced or moderate but, rather, interdependence and cooperation, followed by a steep descent important new light on the dynamics of support for collective Public Administration Mathias Risse explores big questions in the opposite: leadership driven by an into greater independence and egoism.” They write, “It has vigilantism and o” ers what one expert describes as “a provocative new political philosophy, especially as they relate to justice in a globally insatiable hunger—what its authors call been refl ected in our experience of equality, our expression of explanation for why institutional weakness is so di— cult to combat.” connected world. On Justice continues themes from his On Global lust. Lust is an impulse that “persists democracy, our stock of social capital, our cultural identity, and our œ— Justice and On Trade Justice: A and is relentless,” and “leaders who lust shared understanding of what this nation is all about.” The “we,” Philosophical Plea for a New Global continue to lust until the end of their the book recognizes and takes great pains to explain, was neither JFK Deal. Risse begins by investigating days.” The authors zero in on “leaders inclusive nor egalitarian, and that was an important cause of the atomization that followed. But perhaps in that point lies a larger Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917–1956 ON the role of political philosophers and who are typical in that they want to lead, exploring how to think about the one about American national life, summed up in the words of Fredrik Logevall, Laurence D. Belfer Professor of JUSTICE but who are atypical in that they want something else—they desperately Theodore Roosevelt: “On the whole, and in the long run, we shall Philosophy, History, Foundations global context in which philosophical want something else—in addition. This second want is as relentless as International AŠ airs MATHIAS RISSE inquiry occurs. Next, he o” ers a it is fi erce—and it is focused.” They single out six types of lust that such go up or down together.” sweeping historical narrative about leaders are drawn to: lust for power, money, sex, success, legitimacy, œ— how the notion of distributive justice, and legacy. To avoid the study of lust, the authors argue, is to “avoid the READERS OF FREDRIK LOGEVALL’S JFK get a generous bonus: which identifi es a genuinely human human condition.” For leaders so driven have been evident throughout Beyond an elegant and readable biography of the early life and concern that arises independent history—they have shaped the lives of billions. Leaders Who Lust draws career of John F. Kennedy is a masterfully written history of American of cultural context, has developed our attention to a critical motivator in the exercise of leadership and politics and foreign policy in the mid-20th century. A Pulitzer Prize into the model we should adopt bestows on it its rightful place in the leadership literature. œ— 36 www.hks.harvard.edu WINTER 2021 | HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL 37

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“YOU CAN BELIEVE in consensus more than you believe in conflict. You can be human. You can feel and show emotion. You can be kind, empathetic, and strong. You can, and indeed you must, be your own kind of leader,” said New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in December as THE BUZZ she received this year’s Gleitsman International Activist Award from Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership (CPL). Ardern has become known for her leadership through the pandemic as well as through the March 2019 terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch—New Zealand’s deadliest such attack. At an event moderated by Wendy Sherman, director of CPL and professor of the practice of public leadership, Ardern spoke about the challenges of leading—and of leading as a woman. “I can make sure “Today, our voices “If you’re going to “The number of health £“£I am mostly £“£The gig economy “Don’t wait for the moment when you suddenly feel you that we run a are easily and recognize the value workers who are either optimistic about is that people are ready,” she said. “Sometimes that moment won’t come. robust economy dangerously of everybody, you getting sick or having our country, are more or less We need to accept opportunities, take them, and be bold—despite that feeling of fear and doubt.” so that everybody drowned out on the have to reflect to isolate is increasing, because we have expendable, and Ardern also gained attention in 2018 for being only the second has a chance to internet by voices the diversity of and so you’ve got a had so many people you really only ever head of state, after the late Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan, to give get into the labor that are not even society. If you’re not di‹erent source of come forward to have to pay for the birth while in o›ce. market. I do think remotely tethered prepared to do that, problems, which is make our systems, exact 10-minute “There was never a point in my life that I can recall where I thought, ‘I can’t do that because I’m a woman.’ However, I have on it is our role.” to fact, and not you’re going to be mainly a shortage policies, and increment of their many occasions thought, ‘I cannot do that because it’s me.’ Mary Daly, president and CEO remotely tethered left behind.” of health workers.” practices more fair.” time that you use.” Imposter syndrome is real,” she said. “It’s been a journey for me. of the Federal Reserve Bank I want to be a good leader, not a good female leader.” to actual events.” David Rubenstein, cofounder Peter Sands, executive director Valerie Jarrett, former senior Tara Westover, author of of San Francisco, giving the and co-executive of The Carlyle of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, advisor to President Obama, at Educated and a fall 2019 fellow Past Gleitsman Award winners include Malala Yousafzai, John Seymour E. and Ruth B. Harris Eugene Robinson, Washington Group and chair of the HKS Tuberculosis and Malaria, at an IOP an Ash Center event on National at the Shorenstein Center, at a Lewis, and Nelson Mandela. Ardern requested that the $150,000 Lecture Post columnist, giving the Dean’s Executive Board, at an Forum on global leadership and Voter Registration Day discussion on urban and rural prize be used to fund a scholarship for a student from New Zealand Theodore H. White Lecture on IOP discussion on leadership COVID-19 in October economies in August attending the Kennedy School. Press and Politics SKIDMORE | GAGE STEWART | MARTHA STRINGER / HAGEN HOPKINS

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William Mark Thompson MPP writes, “In Listen to the recently launched Collaborative Equities, a retirement I have recently written and podcast where company focused on rejuvenating urban published Disputed Decisions of World War 45TH REUNION leaders in public 1976 districts, addressing climate change, and II: Decision Science and Game Theory policy, media, Michael Wallace MPP is happily retired broadening community benefi ts. Perspectives (McFarland, 2020). It and international and enjoying Montana. “Trying to promote Collaborative Equities partners with references and discusses prominently the a airs confront the word ‘numbulary’ = number- owners and investors—while empowering writings of Graham Allison, Richard the world’s vocabulary. We all have vocabularies of citizens and city leaders to actively Neustadt, Howard Rai a, Thomas Schelling, most pressing the words we know and use. We should engage—as malls and main streets and Richard Zeckhauser—in part, to be problems. also have conscious numbularies, the intersperse more services with residential, sure, out of continuing gratitude to them numbers we know and use to quantify our recreation, and civic uses. but also (being as objective as I can be, ken.sc/policycast perceptions and experiences, just as we which is not easy) because their works Mark Haas MCRP, CEO of the Association use words to qualify our daily lives.” remain in my opinion the most for Enterprise Growth (AEG), writes that authoritative, insightful, and internationally AEG “is raising capital to expand respected on the topics I have addressed.” 1978 nationally. AEG operates ecosystems of 50 business advisors in complementary Richard Broinowski MC/MPA, since disciplines and CEO peer groups. It helps retiring from diplomacy, has become a 1974 owners of midmarket companies grow, published author in Australia. “My latest Manolo Abella MC/MPA shares that after add value, exit on their terms, book (my sixth) is now with the printer. HKS he was asked to modernize public and build personal wealth. The unique No title yet, but it’s about Australia’s employment services in the Philippines. business model leverages diagnostic relations with Cambodia—how we helped He also briefl y served in Beijing during technology, a lean cost structure, and persuade the United Nations in 1991 to the normalizing of relations with China, a focus on relationships, culture, and administer Cambodia until elections were and later played a key role in organizing artifi cial intelligence to identify and held in 1993. An Australian general, John an overseas employment program of the deliver enterprise value. The germ of this Sanderson, was commander of a Philippines. In 1979 Manolo joined the idea came from experiences at Harvard multinational force to disarm and canton International Labour Organization (ILO), and the power of convening diverse the Khmer Rouge and other warring where he managed a 13-Asian-country disciplines and perspectives factions pending elections. The elections program on labor migration, and later to address complex problems.” were a success, but under Hun Sen, the spearheaded the development of the country has slipped back into corruption ILO’s Multilateral Framework for and autocracy. Democracy is an alien Managing Migration. He later organized 1980 construct in some countries.” for the World Bank a multi-country William Dalton MC/MPA has held elective research project on reducing migration M. Feldman MPP writes, “I’ve sold o® ce for 11 years and has worked as a costs. Manolo has published extensively my planning/architecture fi rm in a lawyer for over 50 years. He has served as 1967 1969 on labor migration issues and has served well-timed pre-COVID change and am general counsel for the American Cancer Harry Harris MC/MPA visited pristine Jack Underhill MC/MPA retired in 1997 it back; I have never been in public service on the advisory boards of COMPAS now devoting more time to my teaching, Society, commissioner and chair of the Antarctica and the Falkland Islands in after 41 years of federal service, 33 of and only occasionally practiced planning. (University of Oxford) and MOOP nonprofi t and public e orts, and some Massachusetts Labor Relations December 2019. He cruised on MS Roald which were at the U.S. Department of What have people who got MCRP degrees (University of Sussex). independent work (if it’s interesting), Commission, and president of the Amundsen’s maiden voyage with new Housing and Urban Development. from KSG done with them? What I did was and more time with my wonderful wife, Acoustic Neuroma Association. William is Sandford Borins MPP is now professor hybrid propulsion. A March 2020 cruise Since then, Jack has been active with to research, develop software, and consult Anne. We’re lucky to have a pleasant the author of three books and emeritus of public management at the to the Norwegian fjords and the Arctic the Life Long Learning Institute at in geosciences, then chuck that to be a home and garden to dwell in as we approximately 1,000 newspaper columns. University of Toronto. He is completing a Circle was cancelled when Norway George Mason University and has journalist and technical writer, and then watch and wait for better times socially, — book about political narratives in the Grace Flores-Hughes MC/MPA is a senior closed its borders! With California’s undertaken mission trips overseas and chuck that to write ad lib. Since then I’ve culturally, and politically.” Mark Thompson United States, the U.K., and Canada, advisor to Caliburn International and a unique pandemic health closures, Harry to disaster areas in the United States littered the web with hundreds of stories, MPP 1971 titled Public Representations. And with Gregory Lipscomb MC/MPA retired board member of the Women’s has remained sequestered in central for the Annandale United Methodist articles, and memoirs, published a novel, more time available he is posting more from the Federal Communications Campaign Fund. She is working on her California with ample quality time to Church. He has also served as a and am working on its next installment. I frequently about politics and narrative Commission in Washington, D.C., in 2014 second book. engage in new pursuits. He looks Stephen Minister, counseling people must say, it beats a 9-to-5 job.” on his blog at sandfordborins.com. and moved to Austin, Texas. He is now forward to receiving first doses of the who need help. Every year he has Jerry Ostrov MC/MPA, retired since 2011, John Hurley MC/MPA writes, “I knew the chair of the University of Texas Libraries coronavirus vaccine; then, o† to more presented papers on poverty-related Richard Feeney MC/MPA writes, “After is a happily married grandfather of four. scene, having grown up as a ‘townie’ in Advisory Council. global travel and new adventures! issues at the annual conference of the the Kennedy School I returned to my He has spent much of his time writing Cambridge/Somerville. A CORDS American Society for Public hometown of Portland, Oregon, and Robert Sabbatini MCRP writes, “Hello! I three historical novels. His fi rst novel, In Lionel Ingram MC/MPA writes, “After posting in Vietnam helped prepare me Administration. Jack is a poet and has pursued a government career at have been happily retired since 2018 after Ways Unimagined, covers the period thirty years in the Army, I retired in for the fall of 1969 at Harvard! I then been active in the Poetry Society. He Multnomah County, Portland State completing seven years as a sole 1933–1942 and has just been re-released 1993 as a colonel, moved to Exeter, was assigned as course chair for enjoys and helps nine grandchildren. University, and for 25 years as director practitioner. You can check out my on Audible as a narrated volume. Its New Hampshire, and returned to the incoming Foreign Service o¥cers when of government a airs for TriMet, our professional website: sabbatini-loyd.com. sequel, Someone Waiting for You, — Kennedy School to complete my I returned to State. Following tours at transit authority and the pioneer in the I was recognized as an Italian citizen in overlaps the fi rst volume and covers the Jerry Ostrov dissertation. In 1995, I earned my PhD in then Embassy Bonn, the Armed Forces 1970 development of light rail transit. 2019. Did some traveling with my wife, period 1937–1967. It, too, is being readied MC/MPA 1980 political economics and government. In Sta† College, and the department, I Georey Dutton MCRP writes, “Some Currently a book reading group of Bonnie Loyd, pre-COVID. Documented for re-release on Audible. Jerry’s newest 2018, I retired from the University of switched hierarchies, went to seminary, fun facts: I never attended or graduated retirees (fi ve of us Harvard grads, three seven months in Italy on our fi rst blog: book, The Scroll and the Parchment, is an New Hampshire as a Murkland Senior and was ordained a Catholic priest in from KSG, which subsequently absorbed from HKS), startled at the 120 days of ipensionati.com. Wishing everyone a Lecturer emeritus.” my program at HGSD and later delivered protests that have taken root in the city, brighter, safer, and prosperous future.”

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WIENER member of Banca Nazionale Lavoro and of CONFERENCE Italgas (Italian gas distribution leader). He is married with three children. CALLS Robert Reiner MCRP writes, “Since 2016, my nonprofit website has been providing Wiener Conference Calls feature Harvard Kennedy School nationwide pro-bono retirement income faculty members who share their expertise and respond advisory services to those experiencing to callers’ questions. Visit the online archive at personal and financial stress. The pandemic has deepened already tenuous hks.harvard.edu/wiener-conference-calls. income security for most Americans, and language used by government agencies Read excerpts from the discussions. to explain programs and services that may be of benefit remain largely opaque. The site attempts to explain in clear terms what assistance and strategies are available and how they can be accessed.” 1982 Teresa Cader MC/MPA writes, “I became the associate director of the Ford Foundation’s Innovations Program in archeological thriller. Once the virus Fredie Kay MC/MPA writes, “As you may State and Local Government at HKS in subsides, Jerry is looking forward to know, 2020 was the 100th anniversary 1985. I left that position to accept two family, skiing, classical music, and hiking. of women obtaining the vote with the fellowships in poetry from the National 19th Amendment after 72-plus years of Endowment for the Arts and the Bunting e–ort by su–ragists—white and of color. 1981 40TH REUNION Institute at Radcli–e. I’ve published three Women and men of color couldn’t vote collections of poetry and won multiple Timothy Buehrer MPP, after being until laws were changed or enacted, such awards and fellowships as a writer. I’ve A Community Resource else,” Ritchie says. “There were huge gaps with regard to high-quality evacuated from Jakarta in March, has left as the Voting Rights Act of 1965. As been fortunate to publish in places like formal education, but I realized that informal learning could build a young the USAID ASEAN project he had been founder and president of Su–rage100MA The Atlantic, Slate, Harvard Magazine, Tim Ritchie MC/MPA 1998 person’s creative confidence and help cross the opportunity gap.” running in Jakarta for many years. This (surage100MA.org), it’s been a privilege Harvard Review, Poetry, and many other past September he accepted an academic working with others to develop a coalition magazines and journals. I have taught Committed to improving their lives, Ritchie started his own charter position at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia- of nearly 200 Su–rage100MA partners, extensively in literature and MFA JUST DAYS BEFORE Tim Ritchie MC/MPA 1998 became president of Boston’s school, which would have taken advantage of all that downtown Pacific Center for Security Studies in host events, provide historical remarks, programs and have just finished a fourth Museum of Science (MOS), the United States reported its first coronavirus Birmingham had to o‰er. The project didn’t work out, in part because Honolulu. Lori Forman MPP is also on the partner with the Commonwealth Museum collection of poetry. I hope to complete a case. Soon the nation was dealing with a major crisis that a‰ected just about Alabama did not have legislation enabling charter schools. The silver lining faculty. “Looking forward to a more to create su–rage display panels, make a memoir about my immigrant family this academic focus as well as the transition 30-minute film, The Fight for Women’s year. I married HKS faculty member Jerry everyone—and MOS was no exception. As the pandemic reached Boston and is that the failure led him to apply to HKS. “I knew I had to get better at back to the U.S.” Surage, Looking Back, Marching Mechling and we have two grown Massachusetts began its lockdown in March, MOS followed suit. In April, nonprofit management,” he says. He notes that his year at HKS was life- Forward!, and more!” Charlotte Cloutier MC/MPA writes, daughters. Currently, I have committed Ritchie had the unenviable task of laying o‰ nearly two-thirds of the changing—and that he takes its lessons to heart. “This is 22 years old, from myself to anti-racism work in the literary “Retired as of Dec. 31, 2016 after 25 years Joe Leitmann MPP retired in early 2020 museum’s workforce. “There’s been a lot of grief and loss, and there’s Gary Orren’s class in persuasion,” says Ritchie, holding up a dog-eared of consulting in health care. Enjoyed world after 35 years at the World Bank. He is community and the support of a policy been a lot of growth and change,” he says of that intense time. notebook. “I still use it.” He also takes inspiration from the Kennedy travel till COVID-19 grounded us! Very now heading Rapid Assessment, Planning institute, Greenlining, headed by Black appreciative of HKS and Harvard’s e–orts and Implementation for Development and Brown professionals.” The crisis hastened some transformations Ritchie was already School’s John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Institute of Politics. “Seeing the to o–er e-learning opportunities during LLC, consulting for the United Nations, H. Eric Elbot MPA writes, “I am co-founder planning, including bringing science education to everyone, not just those massive degree of programming in the Forum day in and day out gave me these months of isolation. Hope these doing pro bono work for the University of of the HKS Potato Heads, Shone & Elbot who could a‰ord the museum’s admission fee—which at $29 for adults and a vision for what the Museum of Science could be. My vision for how an initiatives carry on into the future as we California, and learning new skills (Korean Political Consulting, and our good friend, $24 for children is among the highest in the nation. “We’ve become a institution uses its architecture to be a community resource for learning adapt to an ever-changing world!” and saxophone). Joe is splitting his time Paul Shone, passed this year: ‘We miss between Washington, D.C., and California. digital institution; we’re now free in people’s homes,” he says. “Everything came from wandering through the Forum.” Lynn Harris MC/MPA is the newly elected you, Paul!’ Serving on the HKS NEAA we were doing on the floor, we’re trying to do After attending HKS, Ritchie board chair for ARTZ Philadelphia Giandomenico Magliano MC/MPA shares Board during this Byzantine 2020 (artzphilly.org). Lynn joined the ARTZ that the HKS experience was very allowed me to witness the compassion, online.” MOS also introduced programming in — headed to Louisville, Kentucky, to Philadelphia board in the spring of 2019. instrumental in his diplomatic career path, wisdom, and helplessness of our Spanish, something that continued after the work for a United Way organization wonderful school in coping with “My vision for how an institution uses Following her retirement in 2018 as the particularly in learning how to anticipate museum reopened in late July—and after the that provided opportunities for longtime executive director of Center in trends and problem-solve. He is an Italian pandemic and national division.” museum rehired about 70 people, bringing the its architecture to be a community adults with developmental the Park in Northwest Philadelphia, Lynn ambassador and has held the highest- Erik Ferguson MCRP recently appeared head count up to 50 percent of its typical number resource for learning came from disabilities. He was recruited back to joined the ARTZ Philadelphia community ranking position since 2010. Past roles as the Ghost King in a Bard at the Bar as a volunteer with the ARTZ in the include director general for development production of Hamlet. He also published Equitable access to education is a thread that wandering through the Forum.” Birmingham to lead the city’s Making, ARTZ on the Road, and ARTZ @ cooperation, director general of economic his first short story, “Spitting Image,” runs through Ritchie’s career. A lawyer by McWane Science Center, then moved Je–erson programs. Lynn is the primary a–airs, director general for Asia, Africa, online at Ellipsis Zine. training, he had worked to improve the lives of children in public housing to The Tech Interactive in San Jose, California, and finally made his way Use the Alumni care partner for her father, and so her Latin America & globalization, and Italian Elizabeth Santillanez MPA writes, “I am in Birmingham, Alabama, leading e‰orts to develop after-school and back to the East Coast after being tapped to lead MOS. Directory to contact interest in volunteering with ARTZ was ambassador to France. Giandomenico celebrating over 20 years working with your classmates. both professional and personal. The depth currently teaches globalization/ summer programs for low-income children. There, he recognized the Despite the di¦culties of starting a new job that focuses on in-person the University of California, San Diego, in and breadth of her experience in the field deglobalization processes as a university abilities of children who had been left behind by schools. “I saw how experiences, Ritchie is optimistic. He says, “Equitable access, future- hks.harvard.edu/ of aging and passion for the ARTZ mission lecturer in Rome. He also works in the program management positions, currently e‰ective and capable young people were with applied technology— forward science and technology programming, and community alumnidirectory led her to become board chair. private sector as vice president of Pizzarotti with the Division of Biomedical (construction/public works) and as a board Informatics, Health Sciences. 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pre-docs, postdocs, and short-term to benefit from the rich cultural and Carol walks in the neighborhood, plays trainees. Previously I worked with the social life of Madrid, closer to our tennis, weight lifts, and is on constant Western Governors’ Association for Latin-American origins.” Zoom meetings. Her volunteer work is almost 10 years as a policy analyst/ focused on police accountability and it Judy Bunnell MPP and Joseph Olchefske program manager in international seems the best way to achieve that is to MCRP are staying healthy and well in D.C.! relations, working on regional programs meet constantly. Carol smiles when she Their daughter India is who knows where on trade policy, education, and thinks about the 35th Reunion in 2019. at this point! Joseph is teaching environmental management. On a educational entrepreneurship at Johns Lou Trajcevski MPP shares that this past personal note, I have a 21-year-old Hopkins and is an academic visitor October was a big month for him. He daughter who is a senior at UC Berkeley. So (whatever the heck that is!) at the celebrated turning 60 along with the 20th proud of her! Grateful we are healthy!” Kennedy School, where he is teaching anniversary of the formation of his Worth Thomas MC/MPA was appointed to sessions on school district reform. Judy company, Newcastle Housing Ventures, PolicyCast takes a Mississippi’s State Capitol Community and their daughter are starting a LLC. Based in Hartford, CT, Newcastle is an global perspective. Improvement District Advisory Board. The company, IndoJubu (guess where a©ordable housing finance and Joseph Aldy board will focus on the redevelopment of the name comes from!). The mother- development consulting practice that explains how the the city of Jackson; the state legislature daughter duo is doing social media, assists developers in assembling financing incoming U.S, will appropriate about $10 million to $12 websites, and general communications to construct a©ordable and mixed-income administration million per year to the city’s for individuals and nonprofits trying to rental housing. can jumpstart the redevelopment for the next 10 years. “build their brand.” Matt Tueller MPP is currently U.S. global fight against Worth was also appointed to Mississippi Margarita Castellon MC/MPA writes, ambassador to Iraq. Over his 35-year the climate crisis. Governor Tate Reeves’ Finance Committee “After a career of government relations diplomatic career, Matt has worked at U.S. and to the Mississippi Top 50, which work for two large private companies, embassies across the Middle East, in ken.sc/policycast recognizes 50 influential business and community relations work for another, London, and in various domestic government leaders in Mississippi every and lots of nonprofit board service, I assignments in Washington. His wife year. Worth was recently elected to the recently retired to a life of travel (when it resides at their home in Provo, Utah, Blue Ridge North Carolina Y Conference is safe again) and more nonprofit board spending time with their nine Board of Directors, the Mississippi Food work in the areas of philanthropy, grandchildren. In October 2020 Matt was Network, and the Methodist Children’s community building, education, lifelong publicly blacklisted by the Islamic Republic Homes of Mississippi Board of Directors. learning, and disabilities. My best regards of Iran in retaliation for a similar move by His client list includes several of the to my classmates. Feel free to come and the U.S. government against the Iranian national Fortune 500 companies. Worth visit me in Florida!” ambassador to Iraq. The State Department Bringing a In a sense, Basnight’s current job has brought her full circle. She recalls has completed mission work in East and U.S. Embassy in Baghdad have Africa. Ken Farbstein MPP reports that he’s donating blood at West Point: “That was a part of me being able to give back dismissed the Iranian accusations that he moved into a fixer-upper in the woods of to our country through my blood donation.” Now she spends her days played a role coordinating terrorist Change Toolkit Concord, Massachusetts, with his fiancee. activities in Iraq and beyond. thinking through and managing a complex supply chain for the American 1983 He notes, “Very conveniently, she’s a Red Cross. The organization is responsible for more than 40 percent of the Christopher Gates MPA is co-director of psychotherapist, so she’s fixing me too, Andres “Antong” Victorio MPP eventually to the American the Philanthropy Bridging Divides for free.” Professionally, for NAMI obtained a PhD in economics and moved nation’s blood supply; it collects more than 4.6 million blood donations and project. He writes, “It is gratifying to be (National Alliance for Mental Illness), he’s to New Zealand. There he became a Red Cross nearly one million platelet donations from millions of volunteers each year. working to find a way to discover assessing the ways social workers who senior lecturer in public policy at Victoria Storing the blood, processing it, and then getting it to the hospitals and common ground between right and left work within police departments help University of Wellington and founded MC/MPA 2007 Elisa Basnight patients that need it requires many teams to work together smoothly. “It’s an in the philanthropic community.” troubled people get into a treatment StatScience Research, a consultancy for track, rather than the criminal justice advancing economics for public policy. He ecosystem,” Basnight explains. Kenneth Hughes MPA writes, “I am track. That’s part of his broader focus on is the author of three books, most notably LEADING ORGANIZATIONS through change is what Elisa Basnight MC/MPA With COVID-19 posing a threat to supply chains in all sectors, Basnight is pleased to report that a Canadian identifying and widely spreading non- The NZ CPI at 100: History and company, Providence Therapeutics, 2007 does best. “My toolkit is really a change toolkit,” she says. Last year focusing on safety while ensuring that the organization’s essential work can medication ways to help people labeled Interpretation, and of more than 30 where I am chair of the board, has Basnight joined the American Red Cross as a senior vice president for the continue seamlessly. “The American Red Cross is doing everything it can to with diagnoses of psychosis. journal articles on the economics of received funding from the National altruism, housing, trade, financial crises, organization’s blood supply chain. “And who would have thought that there keep people safe and healthy during this pandemic,” she says. “Our mission is Research Council of Canada to Pina Frazzica MC/MPA worked in public globalization, union power, and disaster- would have been this much change within the first year?” she says. to help alleviate su¦ering during emergencies, and that’s exactly what we undertake Phase 1 human trials for a health programs in sub-Saharan African risk mitigation. COVID-19 vaccine. We use a mRNA for countries after graduating from HKS. In Basnight grew up in Wisconsin, with a father continue to do.” In response to the our vaccine, the same as larger players the 1990s, she worked at the National who was a U.S. Navy Reserve o“cer and small — pandemic, and with ensuring better known, such as Moderna. Animal Institute of Health, organizing training and 1985 business owner and a mother who was a nurse. “ people’s safety as the top priority, trials have been very promising.” research in public health for developing Our mission is to help alleviate Kalyan Chakravarty MC/MPA, after Early on, they instilled in her three core values: Basnight established a COVID-19 countries. Pina was then nominated to be graduating from HKS, obtained a PhD in su ering during emergencies, and director general of CEFPAS, in Sicily, hard work, education, and giving back to command center to provide a fine arts from the Graduate School of 1984 where she developed a regional school of others—even though the family did not have a that’s exactly what we continue to do.” guiding framework for operations of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. Salvano Briceno MC/MPA writes, “This public health and managed it for 17 years. He wrote his doctoral thesis on his lot. Basnight found her way to the U.S. Military her 7,000-member nationwide year my wife and I moved to Madrid, Since 2013, she has worked in Rome at the excavations in Chhattisgarh (published Academy at West Point, served in the Army, and later went on to become team and strengthen communications within the organization. “COVID-19 Spain, where we continue to enjoy our National Institute for Health Migration and by Aryan Books International, Delhi), and very pleasant retirement. I am still in Poverty (INMP), whose mission is to the first lawyer in her family, practicing at a New York City firm. served as, and continues to be, an accelerant of change,” she says. Use the Alumni went on to co-edit six volumes on touch with a few academic activities diminish health inequalities in the country Hoping to meld her legal expertise with strong policy skills, Basnight Although Basnight recognizes that there are many unknowns with the Directory to contact indigeneity issues with Routledge. around the world in the field of reducing through facilitating the access to health your classmates. Kalyan was the former head of attended Harvard Kennedy School on a Zuckerman Fellowship, which continuing trajectory of COVID-19, she has appreciated learning lessons and risk related to natural hazards. After services by the most disadvantaged social Chhattisgarh Forestry, National Museum, enables talented people from the fields of medicine, law, and business to adapting on the fly over the past year. “My team inspires me,” she says. “I feel hks.harvard.edu/ living almost 30 years in France, next to groups—migrants and poor populations. Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, alumnidirectory Geneva, we undertook a new life project pursue a public service–related degree at Harvard. After completing her very blessed with the opportunity to be a part of this amazing organization Carol Landsman MPP has spent much of Lalit Kala Akademi, and NUEPA in Delhi. studies, she served in various roles, including in White House political and leading change in a big way.” the pandemic housebound with hubby He is currently advising GOI and state FRED WALKER Steve Hassett. Living in Portland, Oregon, governments on creating synergies STEWART MARTHA appointments, in the private sector, and now at the American Red Cross. 44 www.hks.harvard.edu WINTER 2021 | HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL 45

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Press), with a foreword by ACLU national “My time at KSG—and the wonderful, Moscow—most of it for CBS News. During of Daniel Defoe’s recordation of the 1990 director Anthony D. Romero. Presently, I smart friends I met, worked with, partied a recent sabbatical, Beth visited with impacts of the Black Death, with a classic ‡WIENER Robert Dodge MC/MPA has published am involved in helping to initiate a new with—changed my life.” HKS friends in California, including Kerry murder mystery `a la Agatha Christie. ‡CONFERENCE his eighth nonfiction book, a memoir on study institute on race and the political (Abelson) Abram MPP, Richard Gross ‡CALLS Owen Corr MC/MPA writes, “Hello to adult onset epilepsy from McFarland economy at New School University in MPP 1990, and Joel Freid MPA 1991. my fellow KSG ’86 alums. I’m retired Publishing titled Grand Mal. He’s now New York City.” She also had “long-overdue catchups in 1989 and splitting my time between Seattle begun work on number nine. the Midwest” with Carol Rubin MPP Mehrdad Baghai MPP is based in Sydney, Gabriela Romanow MC/MPA writes, and the Yakima Valley, where we grow and Steve Reifenberg MPP 1988. Australia, where he has been funding and Roy Norton MC/MPA retired from Canada’s “When we spoke and saw each other apples, cherries, and the hops used in leading High Resolves, a social venture Foreign A‰airs Ministry in August 2020. via Zoom in May, though I knew this your beer. I’ve spent the past years in which has engaged 400,000 young He is now an adjunct assistant professor of might last for many months, I was journalism, the Seattle mayor’s o¦ce, and 1988 people around the world with immersive political science and public service at the entirely naive about how very long most recently, running a magazine that Abigail Arnold MC/MPA writes, “Hi all— learning experiences around identity, University of Waterloo. In addition, Roy is — time would feel in a pandemic. My covered the fruit industry. I also wrote two Since graduation, I got married, raised independent thinking, social justice, and a resident fellow at the Balsillie School of John Wasowicz family has taken the opportunity to live books on leaders in the communications three wonderful children, who are now collective action. He’d love to hear from International A‰airs, a global fellow at the MC/MPA 1988 together—a precious side e ect of industry. I’m forever grateful for what I adults, was a practicing mediator for over classmates and anyone interested in this Canada Institute of Washington, D.C.’s COVID-19—and I’ve saved many hours learned at the K School.” 25 years, focusing largely on multi-party, work. Check out highresolves.org, Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, and of commute time, while working for James Junke MC/MPA shares that in 2020 environmental policy challenges and videosforchange.org, and a fellow at the Canadian Global A‰airs Mass. General Hospital from home. I am he turned 70, celebrated 40 years of sustainable renewable energy at RESOLVE composereducation.org if interested. Institute. He lives in Stratford, Ontario— writing in October, when life itself The U.S.-China marriage, and became a grandparent. for 17 years, and then a partner at Kearns home to the Stratford Shakespearean seems precarious, the state of our Natalie Jaresko MPP writes, “Bankruptcy, “Feeling very fortunate in these and West for seven. Twelve years ago, I Festival, North America’s largest Relationship nation is appalling, the world is on fire hurricanes, revolutions, a governor’s COVID-19 times.” helped start the American Wind Wildlife repertory theater company. and under water, and a madman is in term cut short by protests, earthquakes, Institute, where I have served as executive “ charge of the asylum. May this all be Felisa Tibbitts MPP writes, “The pandemic elections, and now COVID-19—a health Neville Vanderburg MC/MPA writes, “I China’s desire to become director for over a decade. We are a resolved (well, on the path toward has brought about prolific human and economic crisis, all while su‰ering a received my master of divinity degree a dominant player and nonprofit, made up of the wind industry resolution) by the time you read this.” su ering, and I feel for my classmates recession. Every element of fiscal and from Memphis Theological Seminary in and conservation science community, standard-setter in new who have experienced personal losses. economic policy challenge—more than 2014. After a three-year residency I was Anne Rudolph O’Donnell MPP is a dedicated to assessing risk of wind to My family and I have remained healthy, I could have ever thought possible while ordained as an Elder in the United — industries [such as member of the Whittier College Board wildlife and developing solutions to fortunately. I have tried to use my home studying at KSG or when I accepted the Methodist Church and moved to Robert Dodge of Trustees. Whittier College is a small, address. Take care all!” artificial intelligence and confinement to try out new things, such as challenge to lead the Oversight Board Clarksdale, Mississippi, where I assumed MC/MPA 1990 liberal arts college in Southern technology] is going to home cooking and cool apps for delivering Alan Loeb MC/MPA continues to practice almost four years ago. There is a path the lead-pastor role at two legacy California. Anne notes that it’s an distance learning courses. I wonder what law in Washington and recently published out of this for the people of Puerto Rico. congregations. After two years of prayer put tremendous pressure especially tough time to be a small, will be the state of the planet when our an article on climate change in the Hoping 2021 provides political and discernment we merged into a new liberal arts college, but she admires the on many countries in reunion happens in spring 2021? I am still Kennedy School Review online. The article leadership, vision, and a willingness congregation in July 2019. Cathy and I leadership and vision of the new based in NYC, teaching at Teachers critiques the current proposals and to implement the structural reforms celebrated 42 years of marriage this July Southeast Asia and Central Whittier College president, Linda Oubre. College/Columbia University, still focusing suggests a new framework. needed to make the economy and are both excited about the future.” Asia. They may have to be Plus, as a Minority Serving Institution, on human rights and education. I’m in my competitive and return prosperity.” the school has the tremendous potential Rodney Marks MC/MPA writes, “I hope forced to choose one or fourth year as UNESCO chair in human to further serve the needs of first- that you—my classmates—and your rights and higher education. (No trips to the other: Western-based generation students. Anne continues to families are well. When Debra and I Paris, though.) Thinking of you all!” systems of technology or lead corporate relations and work for returned home after Harvard (with our Chinese-based systems.” the chancellor at UC San Diego. baby, Benjamin), I worked as an arts consultant until 1991. Then I became a Carlos Sosa Franco MC/MPA has been 1987 Anthony Saich full-time comedian. I credit the language writing these past five years. He has Susan Ives MC/MPA writes, “As America’s of government learned at the Kennedy — searched for his Spanish ancestors public lands are given over to oil, timber, School! I’m only half-joking. My website is through the writing of a novel, Huellas de and other extractive industries, Restore comedian.com.au, which is proof of age. between culture, development, and the Azogue y Chocolate, written one book of Point Reyes National Seashore is Now that even Australia is a‰ected by environment, and is developing site essays, Iluminando Esquinas, as a tribute working to end the giveaway at the only COVID-19, live comedy has been museums on indigenous anti-colonial to the French historical school of the national seashore on the Pacific coast. replaced by Zoom, Microsoft Teams...It’s struggles. He is also editing public policy Annales, and finished a second novel, Established in 1962 and barely an hour’s been a huge learning curve. Benjamin is volumes for Mason Fellows and writing El Humo De La Amapola, which explores drive from San Francisco, Point Reyes is now a comedy writer. We have two Connect. on the historiography of Indian art. He 1890–1923 European and world events. a refuge for humans and rare wildlife. other sons (a filmmaker and a software currently serves as a distinguished After 65 years, he has picked back up Yet a handful of politically connected — engineer), a filmmaker daughter-in-law, professor at Centurion University of Spanish guitar and German language ranchers run 6,000 cattle in this park, Henry Ramos and a granddaughter.” MPA 1985 Technology & Management (CUTM) in study. “Fandango is great and alles ist gut, overgrazing the land, depleting the Bhubaneswar and is a board member of ich bin zufrieden und beschã.” water, and polluting vital ecosystems. John Wasowicz MC/MPA reports that Make your network matter. IGRMS, an anthropology museum in The National Park Service routinely kills Slaters Lane, the third book in the Mo Katz Bhopal, and Bharat Rural Livelihoods native wildlife to protect livestock and mystery series, has been published by 35TH REUNION Update your profile to receive Foundation (BRLF) in Delhi. 1986 ranchers’ profits. This land is your land. BrickHouse Books. The novel details a Michael Bryans MC/MPA retired as an Learn more: restoreptreyesseashore.org.” murder investigation that takes place in Henry Ramos MPA writes, “I remain active news and invitations to events. intelligence analyst from the Public April 2020 during the preliminary phase of in civic leadership as board chair of the Beth Knobel MPP, PHD 1992 has been Service of Canada in late 2017. However, COVID-19. Undaunted by the coronavirus, New York-based Nonprofit Finance Fund, named director of Fordham University’s he retains a keen interest in all matters the investigative team relies on a virtual and as a member of the Santa Barbara, Public Media Master of Arts program, regarding nuclear weapons proliferation street search, online witness interviews, CA-based McCune Foundation’s Grants which prepares students for public service hks.harvard.edu/alumnidirectory and is engaged, from time to time, by and teleconferences to solve the crime and Review Committee. Last year I published roles in journalism and strategic — government entities who find his untangle a tale of jealousy and deceit. a timely book, titled Democracy and The communication. Beth has been a professor Carlos knowledge and experience useful. Slaters Lane combines a historical Next American Economy: Where of communication and media studies at Sosa Franco accounting of the pandemic, reminiscent Prosperity Meets Justice (Arte Público Fordham since 2007, when she returned MC/MPA 1985

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1991 30TH REUNION also involved in herbal medicines, ending up as a transport specialist. I’m handicrafts in cotton, wool, jute, and the now in Wellington, New Zealand, my Michael Brown MC/MPA participated in making of face masks (darjmate.com). hometown«—«lucky to be in a country with All Hands Brigade, a group of veteran Noreen notes that the organization is the COVID-19 virus under apparent labor and community organizers who led “financing relief distribution during the control, and with nice hills and mountains teams of callers to get out the vote for pandemic and lockdowns to for hiking and skiing.” Biden in North Carolina, Wisconsin, and approximately 87,000 people in 15 tea Pennsylvania. He also continues to Janet Martinez MC/MPA, after graduating gardens, 13 rural areas, and 16 urban areas support two eective Black community from HKS, received a PhD in public policy in three districts of North Bengal, for which organizations with fund-raising and from MIT. She is a senior lecturer in law local NGOs and individuals contributed training: The Union of Minority and director of the Martin Daniel Gould about 75 percent of the cash inputs.” Neighborhoods and Dunk The Vote Center for Conflict Resolution at Stanford 2020. In recent years, Michael has seen Arlene Kirsch MC/MPA writes, “We retired Law School. Janet notes, “We welcome Jacob Schreibman and Nurit Israeli in to the beautiful Berkshires, where we apply the Stanford-HKS joint degree students!” Israel, Robert Simon in France, our skills and experience to active Janet recently published (with Amsler Salvador Mayorga in Nicaragua, and anti-racism and police reform work in and Smith) Dispute System Design: Nan Carroll in Troy, New York. “Love Northern Berkshire County. In our town Preventing, Managing, and Resolving to hear from my classmates.” that includes community organizing to Conflict (Stanford University Press, 2020). change the charter, in eect without Julie DeSorgher MC/MPA writes, Pablo Russo Subero MC/MPA spent change since 1956, and helping tell the “We relocated to Cape Cod, several years leading transformational story of the town’s racist history. Wishing PolicyCast illuminates Massachusetts, in 2017 to ‘retire.’ projects in the oil and gas industry in all my classmates and your families good game-changing Not ready to stop working cold-turkey, Venezuela. He has also served as executive health in this pandemic.” trends. Professors I started a part-time consulting business vice president of Best Energy Management Marshall Ganz and developing professional resumes, LinkedIn Lisa Liang Siemsen MPP writes, “Clay and and as a part-time assistant adjunct Institute of Politics profiles, and providing related career I will remain in Singapore in the professor at Andres Bello Catholic Director Mark development services. It has been both fun foreseeable future. Our kids are nearly University and National Experimental Gearan preview a and successful. I also volunteer with a local grown and flown. Professionally, I am University of the Armed Forces (UNEFA). political landscape women’s empowerment nonprofit helping looking to pivot from project/ From 2010 to 2018 he worked in human reshaped by a new clients through challenging life transitions. infrastructure finance to the start-up resources, developing growth strategies generation flexing We’re enjoying a new pace of life and space utilizing my financial and project for family businesses. Most recently he has its political muscles. taking advantage of the natural management expertise. I am following worked in Buenos Aires as a consultant,

surroundings—hiking, kayaking, and my passions for financial literacy and helping new entrepreneurs raise seed ken.sc/policycast exploring. I hope we’re able to gather in lifting up others through financial literary money for people in need of education, May, but may need to wait until 2022! education for foreign workers and young work, and medical care. Stay well and be safe!” adults. Personally, my cravings continue Marti Trudeau MC/MPA this past May Not About Theory bottom up. It’s about building alliances. It’s about actually transcending to lead my cooking journey, which now Michael Diedrich MC/MPA writes, “The received a doctoral degree in social work ideological and party lines. At the end of the day, it’s about solving the includes home-smoked bacon, KSG program, professors, and classmates from the University of Southern California. Kostas Bakoyannis MPP 2004 sourdough, croissants (quite a feat in problem, not talking about or to the problem.” inspired us to provide meaningful Her work focuses on identifying unmet humid/hot Singapore), and spiral curry Public service (not politics, he stresses) is in his DNA. His mother was leadership and service in our communities, health-related social needs in the home pus. To stay fit, I have taken up cycling states, and nations in diverse and care setting. Encountering these GREECE WAS JUST EMERGING from 10 years of unprecedented economic Greece’s foreign minister and comes from a famous political family. On his all across Singapore.” innovative ways. I believe that we all problems as a registered nurse prompted crisis, and Kostas Bakoyannis MPP 2004 was just a few months into his first father’s side, his grandfather was a priest in a small village. The two continue to participate in all levels of Andrew McLeod MPA writes, “Ever a her to complete this program in order to term as mayor of Athens, when the pandemic hit. “It came at a traditions have been equally important, he says: “Their experiences have service. After leaving our state legislature political junkie and a conservationist, I develop innovative solutions to adverse particularly cruel time,” he says. Like mayors around the world, he had to guided me in my life.” His father, a journalist who stepped into politics, to raise our family, I am back in the South remain in Washington and have taken a bit social determinants of health. deal with the dual challenges of fighting a pandemic and running a city. In was assassinated by a left-wing terrorist group when Bakoyannis was a Dakota State Senate. The connectivity and of a career detour—into the news business. fellowship of the KSG community has I serve as executive director of Foothills a sense, however, both the country and Bakoyannis had been preparing young child. He says that was why he was reluctant at first to go into always been the best source of inspiration, Forum, an innovative civic journalism 1993 because of the financial crisis that tormented Greece for close to a decade. public ošce. information, and support. We have the nonprofit in Virginia’s Piedmont region. Damon Coletta MPP reports that Observing Greece’s recent economic challenges, he says, “People forget that “Growing up in such a family, one knows that the downside is responsibility to work to ensure that future In that capacity, I have the pleasure of Dr. Andrea Yodsampa, Daniel Jaouiche, never in the history of recorded modern economics in peacetime has a much bigger than the upside,” he says. generations have the quality of life and working closely with Larry “Bud” Meyer and Kenny Grant accepted invitations opportunities we enjoyed. Thank you.” MC/MPA 1990, the co-founder and board to present on climate change before nation experienced such a decline so quickly. And yet we were just Finding himself at the helm of one of the world’s most famous cities chair of the organization. I hope to see Damon’s global governance class. Noreen Dunne MC/MPA retired from getting out of this with a newly found sense of during the pandemic has posed not only many classmates at our 30th reunion— Damon is the 2020–2021 Scowcroft formal college teaching at a Jesuit college self-confidence and optimism, having isolated — obvious challenges but also opportunities. whether virtual or in-person—in May.” Professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy. in Darjeeling. She is now mentoring Andrea is founder and CEO of DEPLOY/ radicals and extremists, with our institutions “Being in local government ... The crisis forced Athens to move more ex-students who are teachers in Steve Zwick MC/MPA, who retired in 2018 US and spoke to the class about the intact, with our democracy stronger than ever.” quickly to digital services. His administration government schools for underprivileged after 24 years serving as the San Miguel organization’s work advancing bipartisan [is] about actually transcending children, to bring qualitative inputs to County, Colorado, county attorney, If democracies are living organisms, well, the also focused heavily on helping the most climate leadership. Daniel is senior teaching and learning—especially during recently received the University of country had grown antibodies, Bakoyannis says. ideological and party lines.” vulnerable, with new services such as director with Ernst & Young and this COVID-19 pandemic—in the context of Colorado Law School’s 2020 Public Sector discussed government regulations He came to the job as a committed homeless shelters, door-to-door food limited power and internet. As founding Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award. providing certainty for energy pragmatist. His experience as mayor and as head of the regional delivery, and programs to combat domestic violence. And finally, the city trustee and treasurer of Hayden Hall, an He is a 1977 graduate from the law school. multinationals’ investment decisions. NGO/NPO in Darjeeling, Noreen has been government in one of the country’s poorest regions had developed used the opportunity to free up public spaces and work toward creating a Kenny is managing director with — overseeing the organization’s financial his innate preference for practice over theory. more sustainable infrastructure, such as by increasing pedestrian and Berkeley Research Group and covered Janet Martinez outreach work in primary health and 1992 IGO frameworks for national MC/MPA 1992 “Local government is not about theory,” he says. “It’s about real bicycle lanes. education in the Himalayan hills, David Greig MC/MPA writes, “At 73 I’ve life; it’s about tangible results; it’s about changing people’s lives for “I can say that it hasn’t been a boring time,” Bakoyannis says. entrepreneurial initiatives in livelihood finally retired, having made good use of the better. 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launch to the International Space Station. Mid-Career year at HKS, I took my first distinguished visiting professor of Sino- to solve’ and we have the data. Anybody extended family. This soon will be over, I feel very lucky to have this job at this course in negotiation, and that changed American relations at the Yenching interested in a health care disruptive and we will go back to normal. I am ‡WIENER moment in time.” my life.” Academy of Peking University in the innovation? I’d love to reconnect. I hope optimistic and will continue to be.” ‡CONFERENCE People’s Republic of China (PRC) and as a you, your family, and friends all remain ‡CALLS Judith Lear MC/MPA has been involved in Lise Stone MC/MPA went back to her Bill Carlson MC/MPA was elected to commissioner of the United States National healthy and happy.” the EveryWoman Treaty, an international journalistic roots for the election, working the Tampa City Council in 2019. Since Commission for UNESCO at the U.S. movement to stop violence against for The Associated Press by contributing Ramiro Ortega Landa MC/MPA is a then, he has been working on issues Department of State, an appointment by women. Two fellows from the Carr to the national tabulation on November 3 leading economic inclusion and ranging from economic development, the Obama administration. Center, Lisa Shannon and Vidya Sri, are (and beyond?). She is currently serving as development finance expert working in international trade, and arts and history the founders, and Ferdous Ara Begum vice chair on the Václav Havel Library Guy Swan NSF was appointed by emerging, post-conflict, and frontier to civil rights, human rights, a¨ordable MC/MPA 1983 from Bangladesh asked Foundation Board and Zooming from President Donald J. Trump to the Board of economies, including: Afghanistan, housing, good government, and Judith to help with the section on Manhattan and Dobbs Ferry, New York. Visitors for the U.S. Military Academy at Armenia, Bolivia, Colombia, Dominican pandemic response. He is most proud violence against older women. The West Point. Guy currently serves as vice Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, of the e¨orts to reinvent the economic treaty has garnered both support president at the Association of the Kenya, Kosovo, Macedonia, Mexico, development processes in Tampa to and pushback from around the world. 1995 United States Army in Arlington, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, anchor on standard metrics that will Vidal Garza Cantu MPP writes, “The Virginia. On the Board of Visitors, Guy South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and improve equity and investment in the Rudy Ruiz MPP released a new novel, challenges of regulatory and public aŸairs serves alongside four U.S. senators, five Yemen. He promotes market-driven, community. He also runs a twice-weekly The Resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez for the multinational company FEMSA U.S. House representatives, and five private sector-led growth by supporting online show (cafecontampa.com) and (Blackstone Publishing), in September continue to be my passion. We have been presidential appointees. micro, small, and medium enterprises looks forward to featuring classmates The 2020 U.S. Elections 2020. The American Library Association’s able to cope with COVID-19 by not (MSMEs). Ramiro received USAID’s from around the world. Please visit him Booklist stated, “With an atmospheric aŸecting our employment base. World Award for Innovations when you are in Tampa Bay. “ setting and beguiling prose, lavish details, Parties and candidates Tremendous lessons of courage and 1997 in MSMEs Value Chain Finance. fascinating, well-developed characters, Jean-Christophe De Swaan MPP writes, and campaigns are not in endurance. Staying safe using Canvas: I Christopher LaMonica MPP writes, and charming elements of magic “For the past 10 years, I have divided my continue to teach at Monterrey Tech “Although I did graduate with the Class of the democracy business. realism, Ruiz conjures a magnetic story.” time between teaching in the economics public policy analysis and implementation ’97, I was originally part of the ’96 MPP 1999 Learn more at rudyruiz.com. department at Princeton and working for They’re in the getting-your- every spring and economics and public group. As the years go by, I think of you all Amr Abdallah MC/MPA writes, “It has a New York-based investment fund. My Gwen Young MPP is a member of the HKS policy every winter term.” quite often and trust that your individual been more than six months into COVID-19 number-and-securing- book Seeking Virtue in Finance: D.C. Council and continues to engage quests to make a positive impact on the and working from home, yet within every your-position-of-power Meinolf Meyer MPA writes, “Happy to Contributing to Society in a Conflicted with HKS classmates. Gwen has begun world are moving along as you had always challenge, there is a blessing. I got to be have seen many of our MPA2 class in a Industry (Cambridge University Press) business. A lot of reforms work as the COO of the Women Business envisioned! Currently a professor of able to connect more with my family and video conference in May! Updates: Still came out in September 2020. The book Collaborative: a first-of-its-kind platform government at the U.S. Coast Guard not travel. I got an opportunity to need to be citizen driven at enjoying working at Google tremendously, seeks to improve finance from within and of women’s organizations dedicated to Academy, specializing in local and coastal appreciate the joys of life and be a part of now ‘work-from-home’ at least until next help restore its focus on serving society, the state level: redistricting women’s leadership in business. In governance in sub-Saharan Africa. Alas, my kids’ growing up. Working from home summer; making good progress in the by suggesting a framework for acting reform, campaign finance addition, Gwen continues to consult on cadet trips to that region, as elsewhere, are is a new experience, but it comes with its newly founded charity/NGO Starke virtuously in finance and shining a light — geopolitics and gender equality, and sits on hold due to COVID. All the best from own challenges. I continue to lead our reform. And then we need Demokratie e. V. Ulli and I are happy on inspiring individuals in the industry. Jean-Christophe on various boards dedicated to furthering guy with the beard in the back row, Chris, e¨orts to support youth employment in empty-nesters now—both kids in college One of the chapters delves deep into the De Swaan continuous challenges social and economic development across or, as Zelikow would cynically bark: ‘Mr. the MENA/Gulf region, which is more from this fall.” social impact of investment strategies.” MPP 1999 up to the Supreme Court sub-Saharan Africa. LaMonica!’ Never hesitate to contact.” important than ever. Resilience has a new meaning. Grateful to my wife and kids and on financing and maybe Alex Rodriguez MPP is president and 1996 25TH REUNION moving forward with a true 1994 CEO of FreeFall 5G, Inc, an early-stage Candida Daniele MC/MPA writes, “Soª...ª intelligent antenna development company Jane Gilbert MPA writes, “After four challenge to Citizens United.” I retired from my position as a patient working to change the world with exciting years serving as the City of safety and quality consultant for Inova revolutionary antenna systems for the 5th David King Miami’s first chief resilience o›cer, I Health System in northern Virginia on generation of global wireless standards. recently stepped down to have more — February 6, 2020, and looked forward to “With highly specialized antenna family time and to pursue my interests in travel and spending my time doing technology and IP, we are accelerating national climate policy. On that note, I just whatever moved me...not!! Just like global 5G connectivity to help transform completed a (virtual) HKS Executive everyone else I spent the spring cleaning the global economy!” Visit Alex and his decarbonization. “All thanks to Education program on climate policy and closets and attending Zoom meetings. I team at FreeFall5G.com. Diane Cherry MPP for organizing it reminded me how much I enjoyed and did sell my townhouse in Alexandria, Volunteer. during the pandemic our Class of ‘93 valued my interactions with HKS faculty Virginia, in September and moved to Energy Group.” and peer students. Thank you HKS!” Fenwick Island, Delaware, with my 1998 Katia Hetter MPP was named CNN Susan Hackley MC/MPA writes, “I feel boyfriend to enjoy a retirement Eric Henson MPP is working in economics Digital’s senior editor for science and grateful that for now anyway my family community steps from the many golf consulting, and teaching Nation Building wellness in April. In this role, Katia created and I are healthy, and that we live in a courses and the Atlantic Ocean. While in II—Native Americans in the 21st Century Make a dierence in your HKS community. a new section and team in the middle of a well-run state, Massachusetts. After 19 the metro D.C. area I enjoyed belonging to (HKS, HUGSE, and FAS), from his home in pandemic and worldwide protests against years, I retired in December 2020 as the HKS Alumni Group and will join the Watertown, only a few miles from Join a regional network or Shared Interest racism. “Even before my team was managing director of the Program on Harvard Club of Delaware. Contact me if campus. He is looking forward to the time — announced via a video conference call, we Negotiation at Harvard Law School, a you are in the area!” when we can all safely be back at the Group or become an alumni ambassador. Rudy Ruiz started covering the impact of the wonderful job that took me around the Kennedy School in person. Patrick Mendis HKSEE was awarded the MPP 1993 pandemic and racism on people’s world and that aligned perfectly with my Taiwan Fellowship by the Ministry of John Kenagy MC/MPA writes, “Hello to all wellbeing and writing stories to help our interest in helping people communicate Foreign AŸairs of the Republic of China you HKS 98ers! I’m still in the midst of audience cope with the intense ongoing eŸectively. You can’t be a good leader if (ROC). He is currently teaching as a developing a health care adaptive hks.harvard.edu/alumni/volunteer stressors. We also get to cover you aren’t a good negotiator! Or as JFK distinguished visiting professor of global innovation. HKS and Heifetz’s work, in interesting discoveries and events in said, “Let us never negotiate out of fear, aŸairs at National Chengchi University particular, are amazingly powerful but also space and science, including a recent but let us never fear to negotiate.” As a and researching as a senior fellow of the very threatening to conventional, former political operative doing a Taiwan Center for Security Studies in data-driven management. Now, COVID

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Sergy Kasyanov MC/MPA writes, 2000 Josiah Brown MPP writes, “Court “Twenty-one years since our program at Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Zahra Kahn MPA published a landmark the Kennedy School have passed already Southern Connecticut (@CASAsouthCT) article titled “Systemic Racism in (can you believe it?!). I hope everyone is has made steady progress, despite the Mammogram Guidelines” in Think Global doing great! Let me inform you about the pandemic and persistent injustices, with Health (June 24, 2020). The article has ocial establishing of the new Harvard disproportionate ežects on children at gained national and international attention Aerospace Alumni Organization (HAAO) risk. Since starting up in May 2019, we’ve for mammogram equity, being the first to to highlight the advancements of trained three cohorts of volunteer spell out mammogram disparities using aerospace scientific developments and advocates and will have a 4th cohort the terms “racially unjust” and “systemic their impact on our society, and to bring prepared by December 2020. CASA racism.” Zahra coined the term “Breast young talented minds to Harvard. It is my volunteers help determine and advance Cancer Dodger” to emphasize earliest great honor and privilege to invite you to the best interests of children who have detection opportunities through annual the HAAO with lots of opportunities for experienced abuse/neglect. With a lean mammograms in the 40s for minorities mutually beneficial cooperation. We hope model of 30 volunteers per staž, we’re like herself. She has been working to you can be part of this incredible journey! raising funds to grow to serve additional launch a health care start-up, Medina Please register at our LinkedIn page: youth. My wife and I have kids in grades Global Health. Zahra recently celebrated linkedin.com/groups/6948593.” 10 and 7 in New Haven public schools her 25th wedding Nikkah anniversary with (currently remote). Best to everyone!” Verónica Loewe Muñoz MC/MPA earned Dr. Nazer Qureshi, together with their two her doctorate in biosciences and agri-food daughters, Hanya and Summer. Angela Calman MC/MPA was named sciences, cum laude, at the University of director of the Oce of Communication PolicyCast Karen Kalish MC/MPA is in St. Louis, started laughing, saying, ‘Girls can’t even ride a bicycle Córdoba, Spain, in 2016. In 2017 she won and Education for the FDA’s Center for relentlessly pursues working on parent and family engagement properly; how will they become an astronaut?’” the Innova+Agro National Prize as Devices and Radiologic Health in August truth. Professor in low-performing schools and increasing distinguished researcher, and in 2019 she 2020. Angela serves on the board of the Matthew Baum and Agarwal recounts. “That was a big moment for us.” access to the internet in low-income was awarded the International Union of International Association of Spelling as Shorenstein Center If children often refer to superheroes and neighborhoods and communities of color. Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) Communication (I-ASC), a nonprofit that Research Director “I am selling my 110-year-old wooden superpowers, perhaps having a female superhero of Outstanding Doctoral Research Award in serves non-speaking and neurodiverse Joan Donovan house—which is a hole in the ground their own could encourage young girls to dream. The recognition of her scientific achievements communities and their families. Angela explain how to through which I have poured money!—and in stone pine (P pinea) domestication. She has an 11-year-old daughter, Cassandra. build a research inspiration came in part from Bollywood, specifi cally building a modern house in a wonderful works at the Chilean Forest Institute, and community to fight from Dabangg, a popular fi lm whose hero is strong neighborhood in the city. I have a trainer Mark Fedor MC/MPA writes, “I completed also does consultancy work. She lives in the disinformation four days a week—use it or lose it!—and my assignment as chief of staž to the and fi ghts evil. Dabangg (or dabung, depending on Santiago with her husband and her son, pandemic. walk 10,000 steps a day. Everything is a commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, a how the Hindi word is transcribed) means “fearless.” Simon, who recently got his degree; her ‘get to’—no ‘got to’s’ in my life! Come visit position I had from 2018 to 2020. I was daughter Caterina, completed studies, ken.sc/policycast Hence their creation: Dabung Girl, a cartoon character aimed at girls ages 8 when there’s a vaccine.” confirmed by the U.S. Senate for and has a lovely family with two children. What Is Your to 11, who stars in comic books and an animation series. promotion to rear admiral on July 1, 2020. Munir Merali MC/MPA writes, “After HKS, I My next assignment will be as the Some of the stories touch on diš cult subjects, such as child sexual 20TH REUNION am enjoying a tenure of over 20 years in 2001 assistant commandant for resources and abuse, and Agarwal is proud that his organization has formed strategic Superpower? international development/diplomacy Lowell Ackerman MC/MPA writes, “Still chief financial ocer. My family and I will partnerships to navigate these topics sensitively. It partnered with Kailash working in South/Central Asia and valuing my time at HKS 20 years later. reside in Crofton, Maryland. I am Saurabh Agarwal MPA 2014 Satyarthi, the Indian social reformer and Nobel Peace Prize recipient for his Afghanistan. I have facilitated a diverse Keeping busy during the pandemic and certainly grateful for all the opportunities work on children’s rights, whose foundation helped put together a panel of and exciting portfolio of projects in the over the past year have managed to my HKS degree ažorded me and wish all social, economic, and cultural sectors, complete writing four books: Five-Minute the best to my classmates in the great survivors of childhood abuse to provide feedback. Agarwal says that including ežorts to promote cross-border Veterinary Practice Management class of 2001.” AFTER GRADUATING in 2014, Saurabh Agarwal from Harvard Kennedy although India has very good laws on child abuse, there is very little relevant trade and development—to help enhance Consult—3rd Edition, Pet-Specific Care, Gabriel Grant MPP writes, “I live with my School and his wife, Neelam Pol, from the Harvard Graduate School of literature for children from low-income communities. “If we can use adaptive regional cooperation. The educational Problem Free Pets, and Proactive Pet spouse, Allegra, in Seattle, where I co-own experiences and networking Parenting. Had planned extensive global Education, the two returned to India, working for organizations such as the leadership, as we learned from Heifetz, we can make sure more children are a mission-focused real estate opportunities—through various schools at lecture schedule for 2020 and 2021, but World Bank and UNICEF. But they became increasingly convinced that aware of the laws and how to use them,” he says. development company called Spectrum Harvard—have greatly contributed to my all paused for COVID-19.” Development Solutions. Our team of 12 — their best bet for creating real social change might come from sharing The foundation also recently launched a series of Dabung Girl talks— personal and professional development. I Moshe Arenstein MC/MPA writes, “For the develops workforce and ažordable Lowell Ackerman their transformational educational experiences. “Those HKS classes similar to TED Talks—in which people seen as real-life heroes share their life am also honored to serve on HBS’s South past four years I have been the executive housing, higher education, and MC/MPA 2001 Asia Advisory Board. Please feel free to were so experiential in nature, we thought that if we could take those lessons in fi ve-minute producer of Politics Nation with Rev. Al community facilities. Outside of work, I reach out.” lessons to kids, they might have a chance to break the cycle of poverty — videos. “We are trying Sharpton, a live TV show on MSNBC with chair an ažordable housing development and create a better future for themselves,” Agarwal says. “ to take on important Amina Rasul-Bernardo MC/MPA was the a focus on civil rights and social justice. nonprofit called Bellwether and try to get Boys in the class started N-PEACE awardee of UNDP (Campaigning Producing from my dining room during outside to hike and bike in the beautiful So they created Khel Planet Foundation, an educational nonprofi t issues and fi nd our laughing, saying, ‘Girls can’t for Action category) for her contributions the pandemic has been challenging to Pacific Northwest as often as possible. I’d dedicated to teaching children life skills through games and activities. strategic partners to the Women, Peace and Security say the least, but I remain positive that love to connect with any former “So many of our classroom experiences guided us: Kessely Hong’s even ride a bicycle properly; help us take our story Agenda at leadership, policy, and decision- equality and justice will prevail. I am classmates who come through Seattle!” making levels. Amina was recognized for calmly teaching my 16-year-old twin negotiation class, Ronald Heifetz’s leadership class, the art of how will they become an to more and more John Monaghan MC/MPA writes, “I’ve her work engaging interfaith boys to navigate the roads safely in a communication from Tim McCarthy,” Agarwal explains. “And perhaps children,” Agarwal written two thrillers!! Take a look at them astronaut?’ That was a big methodologies and women’s leadership as sea of dangerous drivers, and my at johnmonaghan.com. You’ll love them. best for us, Marshall Ganz’s seminar on organizing.” says. Next, he and his integral elements of the promotion of 11-year-old daughter that in the Zoom After 20 years with the NYPD, having Conducting workshops at schools throughout India, Agarwal began to moment for us.” foundation plan to sustainable peace. She has helped advance era she will never experience the pure been decorated 28 times for the — women, peace, and security in the joy of a no-school snow day. And I’m still see that children often learned best when they explored concepts in an introduce SuperAvni, intelligent performance of duty in the face John Monaghan Philippines and regionally, and continues happily married. Twenty-year reunion? entertaining way through play. But girls had fewer role models or none at a rebellious next-generation superhero and social impact infl uencer who of grave personal danger, I retired as a MC/MPA 2001 to use innovative partnerships to move Can’t believe all my KSG friends have all—not even fi ctional ones. He remembers one classroom exercise in which tackles the usual challenges of teenagers, ranging from bullying to broader the needle on women’s participation at all grown that old!” they talked about a girl who wanted to be an astronaut. “Boys in the class issues such as the environment and gender inequality. levels. Visit n-peace.net/winner-2019/ MARTHA STEWART MARTHA

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commanding ocer with the rank of drafting binding and enforceable area in a more entrepreneurial capacity in 2004 The premier’s top priority is regulatory captain in 2003. Since, I have testified as agreements with developers seeking to the next phase of my life to make a reform. The reform is seriously taken George Alexander HKSEE was appointed WIENER an expert witness before the U.S. build real estate projects in their di¤erence. Hope to talk to many of my among government o€cials and the by the secretary of defense (SecDef) to CONFERENCE Congress, (House Judiciary Committee), neighborhoods. Attorneys, residents, and fellow alumni for ideas and inspiration.” people. It is Minister Taro Kono who serve on the Defense Advisory Committee CALLS for the NYC Law Dept., and in federal policy experts can download the open- is in charge. He has power and on Women in the Services (DACOWITS). court and the state Supreme Court as an source ebook at bit.ly/3egHEW0. unprecedented popularity through his DACOWITS is one of the oldest expert in police policy and procedure. 2003 Twitter account with more than 2 million Andrew Leigh MPA writes, “G’day from Department of Defense Federal Advisory Today, my wife of 34 years and I live in Marty Martin MC/MPA reports that he and followers. He is tough and persistent, Canberra, Australia, where Gweneth and Committees. The committee provides the Blauvelt, New York, where we raised our Sharon Johnston were married on and even stubborn. New and surprisingly I moved back after Harvard, and are now SecDef with recommendations on matters three healthy, happy, and educated August 1 in Callaway Chapel on the interesting things are happening right — raising three amazing sons. My first job and policies relating to the recruitment, children—BC, BU, Marist.” campus of Episcopal High School in now. As his executive secretary, I am Andrew Leigh was as an economics professor at the retention, employment, well-being, and Alexandria, Virginia. Several Harvard having an exciting life every day.” MPA 2002 Jose Rosenberg MC/MPA is working as Australian National University, and then treatment of women in the U.S. military. classmates who attended via the the representative (senior liaison ocer) I moved into politics in 2010. I’ve just George is a former major general and internet include Frances Sun, Yang of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban clocked up a decade in the Australian senior medical corps o€cer. He served as Wang, Robin and Duncan Earle, and 2005 Treaty Organization (CTBTO) at United House of Representatives (more at the deputy surgeon general for the Army Mariko Gakiya. The Martins reside in John Atilano MC/MPA, on July 8, 2020, Nations headquarters in New York. Jose modestly-named andrewleigh.com). National Guard in the O€ce of the Army Raleigh, North Carolina. Marty continues assumed command of the New England writes, “Our son, who was in the womb Senator Moynihan was Harvard’s 2002 Surgeon General. to provide legal services, as well as District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The during most of my year at the KSG, is commencement speaker, and I’ve tried board assessment, consulting, and Ken Biberaj MPP, during the COVID-19 New England District comprises a $500 Deconstructing the now a university student himself! My to follow his book-writing example. Last training for nonprofit and tax-exempt pandemic, created a virtual conversation million annual program providing civil wife, Maria Cristina, and our children year’s was Innovation + Equality (MIT 2020 U.S. Elections organizations nationally. series called “Coˆee with Ken,” which works, military construction, and paid a visit to Harvard last year, the first Press). When the world starts flying welcomed such guests as Joe Stiglitz interagency support to the states of Maine, time since graduation, and it was a again, do drop by—it’d be fun to see Terri Schreiber MC/MPA writes, “In “ (Nobel economist), Anne-Marie Slaughter New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, I do think there was good moving experience.” old classmates again, and introduce response to the tragic loss of classmates (CEO, New America), John King (former Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. news in the election on a — you to the local kangaroos.” Komla Dumor and John Arrington, the U.S. secretary of education), Suzanne Clark Avichai Levit HKS MC-MPA class of 2003 launched the Leonardo Beltran Rodriguez MPA/ID few fronts, and that was Padmesh Shukla MPA/ID, since (president, U.S. Chamber of Commerce), MC/MPA 2004 2002 Global Action Collaborative discussion writes, “I wanted to share that I have the graduating from the MPA/ID Program, has and several other CEOs and public leaders. the avalanche of voters Lisa Hogan MC/MPA is president of series. Our goal is to create community, honor of being confirmed for a second been working for many years as the CIO of Ken returned to the D.C. area in 2017 and who came out. We haven’t the Corporate Social Responsibility share personal stories, and leverage the period of three years to the Administrative the $15 billion Transport for London is a managing director at Savills, a global Foundation. The foundation published a collective knowledge and expertise of Board of Sustainable Energy For All, an seen anything like this Pension Fund. Padmesh is thrilled to see commercial real estate advisory firm. new equitable development resource, HKS alumni to help solve global issues. outstanding institution. I am advising the development lingo finally seeping into the since 1900. Many of those A Model Miami/South Florida Community Topics such as voter suppression, the Avichai Levit MC/MPA writes, “My book UN secretary-general to advance world of investments. He believes voters were young. Many Benefits Agreement: A Resource Guide. 2020 U.S. election, income inequality, Legislative Deliberative Democracy: Sustainable Goal #7 and working with investments now have to be part of the A coalition of leading Florida nonprofits the opioid crisis, and global warming are Debating Acts Restricting Freedom of leaders in government, the private sector, of them were people of solutions to global problems—be they contributed to the model, which provides on the schedule. We invite classmates Speech During War was recently published and civil society to drive further, faster climate change or better infrastructure in color. Lots and lots and distressed communities and historically to join us on the 2nd Sunday every by Routledge. During war, national action toward the achievement of universal developing nations—in what can be disenfranchised groups with a other month. For access to Zoom, email legislatures tend to enact laws that restrict access to sustainable energy by 2030.” lots of them were women. broadly termed as responsible investing. “I comprehensive sample Community [email protected].” freedom of speech. I argue that the degree All three of those groups in look forward to be a part of this exciting Amil Bera MPP has launched Advaya Benefits Agreement to assist them in of democratic legitimacy of laws that Alan Secter MPP recently joined UN Metamorph, a transformational coaching our society are going to be restrict freedom of speech during war Watch as its North American director business. He helps ambitious people create depends on the extent of legislature more heavily represented of development with a mandate to ease, discover meaning in their lives, and deliberation on such laws. My book in the years ahead.” establish a New York oce, increase the connect with their inner wisdom. The presents an alternative normative account organization’s U.S.-based diplomatic rigors of modern life have left many of deliberative democracy that focuses on David Gergen outreach, and grow the philanthropic disconnected from personal agency. the deliberations of a national legislature. — revenue stream. UN Watch is a Geneva- Advaya Metamorph’s methodology In it, I also delve into the details of based NGO that holds the United revolves around seven paradigms that congressional deliberation during World Nations accountable to its founding align with the human energy system, with returned to Hope, his alma mater, last War I, World War II, and the Cold War.” principles, combats anti-Semitism and the purpose of helping individuals “achieve year after serving as chief administrative anti-Israel bias at the UN, and protects Robert Manson MPA writes, “Hi everyone. a better experience of your life.” For more o€cer of the global financial services Give Back. human rights for victims worldwide. Hopefully you are all doing well at what is information, visit advaya.com. firm Perella Weinberg Partners in New Alan, his wife, Rachel, and their four kids a challenging time the world over. I am York City. Hope College is a nationally Andrea McGrath MC/MPA joined the live in Long Island, New York. based in Dublin, Ireland. Professionally I ranked liberal arts college with around Beeck Center for Social Impact + run a commercial real estate business in 3,000 undergraduate students. Carla Walker MC/MPA worked this past Innovation at Georgetown University as Dublin. In terms of public service I am very August on a team that published Building a fellow in its Fair Finance team, working Alexander Wagner PhD was promoted to involved in Special Olympics. Our son Make your gift today. an Equitable and Just Green Infrastructure directly with leading practitioners and full professor of finance at the University George (11) is a double Special Olympian in Strategy in the North Central Region. students who are striving to reimagine of Zurich this past September. His recent golf and basketball. My company also Serving as climate advisor to the city of financial systems that work for all and research has covered the financial market Invest in the future of HKS. supports the Dublin Simon Community Cincinnati, Ohio, Carla supports the city’s help build intergenerational wealth in implications of COVID-19. He is also vice providing homeless services throughout participation in the American Cities communities that have been historically dean for continuing education and alumni. the city. Last year I was appointed by the Climate Challenge, which helps cities excluded. Andrea also continues to lead Harvard Alumni Association as a director accelerate on their climate goals. Carla her social impact strategy firm, amplified hks.harvard.edu/donate for Europe. We are creating a lot of virtual 2006 15TH REUNION developed Cincinnati’s programmatic impact, and serves as a Lead Boston programming for the Harvard Clubs of platform to build awareness of EVs and 2020 Fellow and an Innovation fellow Lisa George MPP writes, “At the start of Europe. It is great to see so many HKS an energy eciency program that with the Harvard iLab. 2020 my family (husband Paul MPA 2007 alums throughout the HAA.” provides energy upgrades and financial and 5-year-old son Benji) relocated to Matthew Scogin MPP is starting his assistance toward electricity debt for Takashi Yoshinaka MPA writes, “Japan Singapore from Sydney, Australia. It’s second year as the 14th president of low-income renters. will change, with Prime Minister Yoshihide been a challenging time to move Hope College in Holland, Michigan. Matt

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countries, but Singapore has been a great Laura Rudert Rivas MPP writes, Jasmin Johnson Glaeser MPP, based out place to ride out the COVID-19 pandemic. “My husband and I have been in of Zurich, Switzerland, currently works as I am continuing in my role as global head Washington, D.C., since March 2020, a public policy consultant in West Africa of the Macquarie Group Foundation, where evacuated from Côte d’Ivoire due to and Asia. She just returned from five I’ve worked for over 10 years. It’s been COVID-19. On September 30, we months in Sierra Leone, where she worked wonderful to reconnect with several HKS welcomed our daughter, Anara Lily on the COVID-19 response, and is classmates here in Singapore. We look Syed, to the world at GWU Hospital. We currently working with the Ministry of forward to exploring the region once expect to return to Abidjan by the end Education in the Solomon Islands. She travel restarts!” of the year to resume our respective recently started an animal welfare NGO roles—I am the country director for called Compassionate Paws International Yousaf Haroon HKSEE is now a certified MCC’s $525 million urban transport and (compassionatepaws.org) to aid street board director registered with the Pakistan skills development program. Farhan is animals in the countries she works in. She Institute of Corporate Governance (PICG). USG interagency deputy coordinator for is currently in “lockdown” in Kuala Sanjay Inamdar MC/MPA writes, “In 2006, the President’s Emergency Response Lumpur, Malaysia, but she’s with (part of) I founded Institute of Leadership at the for HIVAIDS relief in Côte d’Ivoire. family, so it’s okay. oldest engineering college of India (Bhau. Please look us up if you are in D.C. or Aasim Saeed MPA leads the digital health org). In 2010, with the full involvement in West Africa—we’d love to see you!” oœce at Baylor Scott & White Health and help of my son Hemchandra Inamdar, (BSWH)—the largest nonprofit health a social entrepreneurship initiative named Finding Her system in Texas. BSWH aspires to be a Ignited Innovators of India (i2i) was 2009 PolicyCast goes national leader in consumer-centric care, started. The concept of i2i has reached Bruce Haupt MPP writes, “After seven bravely into tough customer experience, and a•ordability, Community over 200,000 students. Currently, I am the years abroad (Oman for the last six), discussions. and is in the midst of a broad digital chairman of Student Start-up of India, moving back to Houston, Texas. esha Ram MC/MPA 2018 Professor Sandra transformation to help achieve these K which includes 10,000-plus colleges. This Looking forward to reconnecting and Susan Smith and goals. The flagship digital product from is a gigantic work. Nevertheless, I am seeing classmates and friends more in Assistant Professor BSWH is the MyBSWHealth app (iOS + exercising my leadership learning at HKS the future! Otherwise, in the final year Yanilda González Android)—the highest rated and most “SOMETIMES YOU THINK that being di erent is to make it as e•ective as possible. My of my PhD program and can’t wait for explore why ending adopted patient portal in the country. Any thanks go to HKS faculty for unraveling whatever is next.” a liability when you’re young—you want to fit us-vs.-them policing current students or alumni interested in my abilities and shaping my thoughts. in,” says Kesha Ram MC/MPA 2018, who in is an uphill battle. Antonio Núñez Martin MC/MPA has just digital health or agile product C U all at Reunion.” published a new book titled The Leader development are welcome to reach out to November became the first woman of color ken.sc/policycast Before Innovation. Through the learn more! elected to the Vermont State Senate. 2007 experiences and recommendations of Ram was raised in Los Angeles, where more than a hundred bold CEOs who are Khurshid Marwat MPA writes, “Since 2007, 10TH REUNION her parents—a Jewish American mother already leading the transformation of 2011 I have worked as an additional director in their organizations, the book provides Eduardo Baeza MPA writes, “After working and an immigrant Hindu father—owned an the Federal Investigations Agency, readers with the tools to successfully for the Spanish government, in mid-2017 I Irish pub. She didn’t always view this investigating white collar crimes, and navigate this new normal and, from reverted to the private sector and moved subsequently as Pakistan’s commercial diversity as a plus. “Only when I moved there, help them lead the future. with my family to Dallas, Texas, to become council general in Afghanistan. Currently, I to Vermont as a first-year student at the general manager of an ammunition am working as joint secretary in the Michael Robinson NSF was an HKS company. It was a positive experience, university [University of Vermont] did I Federal Ministry of Education and look national security fellow from 2008 to both professionally and personally, as it start to gather strength from it,” she says. after professional and vocational training 2009. He currently oversees all high-risk was the first time that my family lived activities in the country. My wife, Shahnaz travel and security for Microsoft data She was president of the student body at abroad. I really enjoyed the Texas lifestyle, Maqbool MPA, is a joint secretary at the center employees globally. the University of Vermont and won a seat in people, weather, and food. In February Economic A•airs Ministry. My elder son has 2020, we decided to move back to Spain Vermont’s House of Representatives in 2008, graduated from LUMS this year and has — where I now work in the renewable the year she graduated. At the time, she was the youngest state confidence in getting back into politics this year. When something started to work for Lucky Group as a 2010 Antonio energies sector. I really look forward to our management trainee oœcer, while the Bilgehan Caner MPA/ID and his wife, legislator in the nation. In that role, Ram focused on issues including shatters your mirror, it’s hard to pick up the pieces. Should I have run for Núñez Martin next class meeting and to catch up with all younger one is in the second year of his Arzu, are thrilled about the arrival of a ordable home ownership, green job creation, lieutenant governor? Should I have dropped out MC/MPA 2009 of you. Viva MPA ‘11!” business bachelor’s at LUMS.” their first baby son, Tuna Caner, born education, criminal justice reform, and civil rights. — when there were more candidates than I on October 18, 2020. Jonathan Glassman MPP® after seven years She left after eight years to run for lieutenant “You don’t know what expected? Did I serve others well? How do I at Apple, joined Google as a product Manisha Dookhony MC/MPA writes, 2008 manager last April. In this role, Jonathan is governor, but lost. That experience, though, led her separate the ego from what makes a di erence? “2020 was our Reunion year, but you don’t know until James Ahlers MPP joined Phoenix responsible for rebooting the payments to Harvard Kennedy School, where she was a Sheila I couldn’t do it on my own—I went to HKS to COVID-19 prevented us from traveling Children’s Hospital (PCH) as assistant experience for millions of SMB customers you’ve tried to make to Boston. Confined in Mauritius, I sang Johnson Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership. find out.” general counsel in July 2020. PCH is the around the globe. He is living in the Bay happy birthdays, participated in “I think it’s really valuable to fail in a major or a a big di erence.” Ram says that women and people of color sixth largest pediatric hospital in the Area, but remains hopeful that it may be weddings, and celebrated Nobel Prizes United States and Arizona’s only possible to celebrate the 2011 10-year public way—or both—before going back to school who run for oœce can face additional challenges. and life events of my Harvard friends children’s hospital recognized by U.S. reunion in person. Fingers crossed! and seeking out what you don’t know,” Ram says of her loss. “You don’t “Sometimes you don’t realize when you’re in politics and public service via conference calls. These past News & World Report’s Best Children’s months have made us closer, even Clifton Smith MC/MPA writes, “Over the know what you don’t know until you’ve tried to make a big di erence.” that you’re doing everything you can to show how much you love your Hospitals. James is proud to be a part of from far. In these challenging times, we last five years I’ve had the opportunity to Her time at the School was life-changing, and the support she country and your state and you don’t always know if you’re loved back,” — the organization’s mission and vision to supported one another. It made me create a global mindful leadership Clifton Smith provide the best health care for children received from CPL and her Johnson Fellows cohort invaluable. “The she says. “And I think that can be particularly true if you’re a woman or a realize the amazing strength of our program impacting 60,000-plus people in MC/MPA 2011 and their families through a family- fellows o ered me analysis, advice, and encouragement,” she says. “You person of color, when you feel that love is conditional. You have to listen community. Sending lots of love and my firm (EY) and our clients with an centered care model. James lives in care to all friends. I pray for your inspirational keynote and an eight-week can never have too large a cheering section—and the Johnson Fellows through the noise to the people who believe in you sometimes more Phoenix with his wife, Ti•any, and their safety. May we all emerge stronger mindfulness course. Earlier this year I was and Sheila Johnson herself were a huge part of my early success and than you believe in yourself.” two sons, Henry (12) and Liam (10). from these difficult times.” approached by Wiley and Son’s Publishing BEN DEFLORIO about writing a book about my journey. STEWART MARTHA 56 www.hks.harvard.edu WINTER 2021 | HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL 57

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2012 1.5-year-old son, Paolo, are both doing very evaluated by students with a 4.7 out of 5. companies, nonprofits, and individuals part of a national network of independent well, switching between French, German, “Feel free to stop by LSE this spring, if you across the globe acknowledge and business alliances, and this has been an WIENER Francisco Aguilar MPP writes, “Hello all! and Italian—English still to come!” want a tour of the ‘European’ HKS ;-).” integrate anti-racism into their strategic incredible, albeit challenging, journey in CONFERENCE The company we launched from the operations and brands. The consultancy the local economies ecosystem!” CALLS Innovation Lab while at HKS, Bounce Simar Singh MPP writes, “Since graduating works with clients who are committed to Imaging, continues to grow. We are from HKS, I’ve been working on complex Alyce Su HKSEE has been nominated for 2014 the hard work of recognizing, increasingly equipping special operations humanitarian and human rights challenges one of the Woman of Influence Awards Jonathan Chang MC/MPA writes, “In light understanding, and unlearning racist units within DoD, have some research in conflict-a£ected areas, including 2020 by the American Chamber of of the pandemic, I decided to focus on behaviors and policies. By internalizing work ongoing with the Air Force, and were negotiating humanitarian access and Commerce in Hong Kong. Now in their policy work by working closely with the anti-racism into every facet of their selected by Army xTechSearch for some accountability for crimes against children. 17th year, the awards showcase the governments of Singapore and Indonesia operations and narrative, SEq’s clients are work on thermal camera systems. We also I’m currently leading a global initiative to talents and contributions of women on a variety of issues covering setting themselves apart and emerging as continue to serve approximately 300 law strengthen the resilience of refugees and throughout the community. The awards innovation, entrepreneurship, social stronger institutions. enforcement and fire/rescue teams in the would love to connect with other HKS are prized, having gained traction and PolicyCast pulls impact, and education. As of November, U.S. and internationally. In personal news alums working in this space! On a personal reputation over the past 17 years, and history into the I joined Google to lead Google for my baby daughter, Graciela, can now note, I got married in India just before 5TH REUNION the competition is fierce. present. Professor Education’s digital transformation eˆorts 2016 retrieve toy sloths, rabbits, and rhinos on COVID-19 shut the world down and was Alex Keyssar in Indonesia—the world’s largest Jason Cain MC/MPA ran for North Natalie Unterstell MC/MPA is currently command in both English and Spanish, so delighted to have many HKS friends in examines the archipelago. With over 17,000 islands Carolina State legislature in November. serving as director of Talanoa Think Tank, that’s about as exciting as it gets. Please attendance, including Claudia Nunez- Electoral College’s and 265 million people, success means “Will let you know how that turned out a policy think-and-do tank, where she is reach out to catch up!” Sanudo MPP, Hely Olivares MPP, Caryn racist past and why How the United States close collaborations across public, at our reunion!” focused on the transition to a low-carbon Morrow MPP, and Arjun Vasan MPP.” it matters today. Nathan Dial MPP writes, “After the recent private, and social sectors. Indonesia is and resilient economy. Since graduation, Can Come Together Shaniece Criss MC/MPA is an honoree for civil unrest around race, I wrote a three- part of Google’s Next Billion Users Natalie co-founded Agora! and became a Women Vision SC. “As the nation marks ken.sc/policycast article series about my race and military initiative. The pandemic has accelerated leader of RAPS and RenovaBR, all civic “ 2013 the 100th anniversary of women gaining [Young people] have experiences for the Air Force Times. digital transformation for emerging movements dedicated to thought Stoica Popa MPP completed another the right to vote, this one-hour special been taught by their Subsequently, I co-wrote a fourth article markets in an unprecedented way.” leadership and enhancement of two-year master’s at the University of profiles 11 extraordinary women from about race issues in Air Force Flying democracy in Brazil. She also participated experiences ... to be very Texas at Austin after graduating from Miriam Cherno MC/MPA writes, “Hi South Carolina on SCETV.” Read more at Squadrons on how the Air Force fighter in the largest female expedition to Harvard, during which he was also a everyone! For fun, in 2016, I co-authored scetv.org/stories/local/2020/dr-shaniece- cynical, that nothing pilot archetype is a national security issue Antarctica in 2019, as part of the teaching assistant. In 2015, after spending a self-published family story: Sonny’s criss-women-vision-sc. because it harms retention with women, Homeward Bound project from Australia. matters: ‘You can’t do eight years in the United States, Stoica Story: How an Adventurous Dog Found a minorities, and the LGBTQ community. John Gibbs MC/MPA, after three years of returned to Romania. Since then, he has Home. It’s available through the Harvard anything.’ And we want to The articles have received positive serving as a political appointee in the been active in the NGO sector, did Bookstore and Amazon. After more than say, we understand where feedback and have circulated throughout Trump administration, was appointed by 2017 business in the real estate sector, and did a 20 years, I will be retiring as a statistician the Air Force and Pentagon.” President Trump as acting assistant Kevin Barnard MC/MPA writes, “Megan you’re coming from. Boy PhD in history while again serving as a with the Center for Biostatistics in AIDS secretary for community planning and Issac MC/MPA and I recently completed Fei Fei MPP writes, “Since graduation, I’ve teaching assistant. In addition, after Research at HSPH after April 2021. Over do we understand exactly development at HUD, where he most a nine-month deployment on board USS worked at McKinsey as a consultant, then returning to Romania he published this time, there has been tremendous recently led the successful and rapid Abraham Lincoln, setting the record for the where you’re coming from, joined Google to lead product marketing, another three books, making a total of four progress in treating and preventing deployment of $9 billion in CARES Act longest deployment ever for a nuclear- — then moved to Gartner as the managing so far, and was a public speaker at various HIV/AIDS. I am looking forward to new but don’t get misled by the coronavirus funds for HUD. These eˆorts powered aircraft carrier! There was no Talaya Waller vice president. I’ve recently given a TED events and conferences. In parallel, he adventures. Hopefully some travel, period of American history put critical economic development and shortage of geopolitical events during our HKSEE 2011 Talk on the topic of resilience, something continued to attend international trainings classes, and maybe even some writing. homelessness response funds into the time at sea: attacks against merchant you’ve lived through. It that we need even more to handle a global and seminars in various countries. Maybe even reconnecting with the hands of communities around the nation shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, pandemic. TED Talk here: youtube.com/ world of archaeology, my original is possible to change the Sushma Raman MC/MPA published her to help them respond to the pandemic. explosions at the Saudi oil facilities, watch?v=g-vpsFRKzXY.” passion. Hoping everyone is safe in first book, co-authored with Bill Schulz. More recently, John was nominated by Taiwan’s presidential election, and growing course of our history.” these di£cult COVID times.” Adam Heal MPA writes, “Jeanne and I are The Coming Good Society: Why New President Trump to be director of the riots in Hong Kong. While our jobs are very Robert Putnam, living in New Jersey along with Emma Realities Demand New Rights was Charon Darris MC/MPA currently serves as O£ce of Personnel Management, the HR diˆerent (Megan is a public aˆairs o£cer speaking with coauthor (now 8), Alex (5), and Oliver (2). I’m published by Harvard University Press the executive director of the Adams Street wing of the federal government. and I am an intelligence o£cer), we Shaylyn Romney Garrett working for the United Nations on conflict and has been described by reviewers Foundation, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit frequently commented on how valuable Ella Yisraela Goren Gratzyani MC/MPA prevention and peacebuilding in the Asia- as “thought provoking,” an “essential that helps hundreds of students a year our HKS experience was in making us — joined the management of Gilead Pacific. Most recently, I’ve been leading a read,” and “enjoyable.” You can find gain access to college. better naval o£cers.” Sciences Israel as director of government I’m excited to announce the book is project on the security impacts of climate the book on Amazon. Raaele Mauro MPA is launching a and public aˆairs. Abdirahman Ismail Isse MC/MPA writes, complete! Mindfulness Without the Bells change in the region. Jeanne is doing Ami Jean Valdemoro MPP is currently new venture capital fund focused on “After graduation, I have returned to — and Beads: Unlocking Exceptional research at Rutgers University on Chowdhury Maroof Mohsin MC/MPA based in Manila, Philippines. She recently space technology. continue my humanitarian career with Sushma Raman Performance, Leadership, and Well-being infectious diseases. Hoping to be able to writes, “Upon my return from Harvard in launched The Moxy Gal, a training and the International Committee of the Red MC/MPA 2013 for Working Professionals strips away the see some of you in 2021 if you pass 2017, I have been teaching at North coaching platform for mission-driven Cross (ICRC). After a brief mission in bells, beads, and hyperbole associated through New York. Stay safe and well.” South University Dhaka as an adjunct women. Inspired by Rosie the Riveter and 2015 northern Yemen, I have been posted in with mindfulness, and explains how you lecturer of political science and Pietro Rabassi MPA writes, “Since summer women of the Greatest Generation, Ami’s Peter Krul MPP accepted the CEO position Baghdad as deputy head of the ICRC can take your performance and thoroughly enjoying it!” 2020 we have been based in Brussels, mission at The Moxy Gal is to empower of the Slovak Ice Hockey Federation in delegation for Iraq, where I have been leadership to the next level.” where I work still in the energy sector in young women to step up and lead—as July 2020. He has been looking for Theodora Skeadas MPP writes, “In my role managing the implementation of Talaya Waller HKSEE recently published charge of Nord Pool’s business in founders, directors, or intrapreneurs—so creative ways to increase the number of as executive director of Cambridge Local humanitarian activities across 10 o£ces. her first academic book, Personal Brand continental Europe (the world’s first that they can stay productive and relevant, kids playing hockey, enhance the quality First, a nonprofit network of nearly 500 In May 2020, I returned to Yemen. Management: Marketing Human Value international electricity market) and now and thrive. of the training process, and improve the locally owned and independent businesses Currently, I am the head of mission of the (Springer Nature, 2020). By providing a part of Euronext—the major European overall levels of health and education of in Cambridge, I have been working around ICRC for southern Yemen, where I am Use the Alumni Guido Van Garderen MC/MPA taught a research-based, theoretical framework, stock exchange group. My wife, kids and youth in the country. “Definitely the clock since March to support our city’s managing—among other activities—the Directory to contact course on brand strategy during Lent the book examines the concept of Marguerite, works at NATO for the French an interesting way to have a positive local businesses. Our mission is to support, Red Cross response to the COVID-19 your classmates. semester at the London School of personal branding as it is applicable to government, where she meets lots of impact on society :-).” promote, and celebrate a ‘local economy pandemic by setting up a COVID-19 — Economics and Political Science (LSE). Last hks.harvard.edu/ individuals throughout all stages of American colleagues—something that community’ by educating the public and treatment center in the city of Aden, Miriam Chernoˆ year the course was nominated for an Caroline Mauldin MPA recently launched alumnidirectory career development as well as across reminds her and us of our times in the U.S. government about the significant catering for the entire south of Yemen.” MC/MPA 2014

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2018 2021, and since graduation from HKS in Naresh Perinpanayagam MC/MPA the U.S. are giving super positive trustworthy. Days at HKS were a gift, a have also got a PhD o˜er from Johns 2018, I have made consultation with my continues to work in the oƒce of the UN feedback! Please check us out at lifetime gift. After graduation, I traveled to Hopkins University, which I deferred and Matthew Fecteau MC/MPA was awarded family and my Ihiala local government secretary-general, former Portuguese codefromzero.com and share our site with the Democratic Republic of the Congo plan to join in next fall.” the Meritorious Service Medal on August political class, and have gotten Prime Minister Antonio Guterres. In 2019 anyone you think may be interested. (DRC), returning to my work with the 11, 2020, while serving with the U.S. Army Yinan Li MPP writes, “Post-graduation, I numerous endorsements from notable Naresh passed the New York bar exam (a Promo code HKSVIP will International Committee of the Red Cross Intelligence & Security Command in the joined as the chief of sta˜ to the CTO at political figures within Anambra State. 2-day, 12-hour exam), and in 2020 was get you 20 percent o˜ the Practical (ICRC), this time as Ebola & COVID-19 greater Middle East. When receiving the REX Homes, a tech-enabled residential Anambra State is at the heart of south- admitted as an attorney in New York. He Python course at sign-up!” coordinator. Now I am writing from award, Matthew remarked, “I want to real estate startup in Silicon Valley. My eastern Nigeria, and getting the right says “The best part of the bar exam Ethiopia where I am starting a new dedicate this award to my aunt, Christine Ilusion Farias MC/MPA writes, “I joined responsibilities range from product leadership that will propel value-based process was studying constitutional law at mission-life chapter, working as ICRC head ‘Teen’ Pappas. This has been a diƒcult an organization in the Philippines, HOPE. development, product management, leadership for such a key state is at the Harvard, especially Professor King’s class of operations. Here, I keep seeing the silver year for her due to her medical I oversee all the nonprofit community corporate and IP strategies, and many core of my reason for running in the on Congress and lawmaking.” linings amidst COVID-19 and other crises, condition. She is my best friend, hero, programs in my capacity as managing other initiatives with di˜erent teams gubernatorial race.” asking more questions and reflecting on and my moral compass.” Joshua Polacheck MC/MPA writes, “After director of Friends of Hope, a nonprofit across the company. Working with how to build more sustainable, solidary, Rohan Parakh MPA/ID writes, “After my father’s death, in November 2019, I that invests in education, environment, engineers, sales, and many others with Marco Midence MPA writes, “During 2018 I and equitable societies.” graduation, I joined IDinsight, a data focused my energy on protecting and agriculture initiatives. Our newest specializations I’m not familiar with on a became the first minister of presidential advisory firm started by HKS alumni, American democracy and trying to rebuild initiative is the Plastic Credit Exchange, a Friederike Strub MPP, a year after daily basis reminds me how grateful I am priorities and public innovation in my where I led product and innovations for it better. In the summer of 2020, I took nonprofit organization that partners with graduation, is putting her HKS experience for my learnings at HKS, especially those country, having the responsibility of Data on Demand. I managed national over as the executive director of the Pima sustainability-conscious businesses around into practice working at an international from soft skills classes, including leading all the public policy initiatives in surveys for the NITI Aayog, led product County (Tucson) Democratic Party with the globe to responsibly o˜set their plastic development consulting firm on projects negotiation and leadership. They Honduras. In May 2020, I was appointed strategy for data systems, and the goal of delivering the winning margin footprint, and reduce the flow of plastic that promote women’s economic enabled me to more e˜ectively the e-government minister of Honduras, established partnerships with academia in the tipping-point state of Arizona. waste into our landfills and oceans. I serve empowerment in Rwanda, Kenya, Central communicate with and learn from my PolicyCast takes responsible for creating a digital agenda in and governments. My training in Beyond winning in 2020, I want my legacy as impact director. Our flagship program is Asia, and other countries. She is also a colleagues and get my ideas across.” original approaches my nation. Furthermore, in August I was econometrics by Dan Levy was to be building genuine connections for my a waste-to-cash program, to provide consultant for the World Bank’s Women, to issues. Professors sworn in as the new and youngest minister Aldo Martinez MC/MPA co-founded extremely handy in solving tricky party to all the diverse communities in women with dignified work.” Business and the Law project, where she Mathias Risse and of finance in the history of Honduras. My Lumiere Health International, Inc., an experimental design and data analysis southern Arizona.” analyzes the legal framework for working Jacqueline Bhabha first assignment was to draft a budget Alnoor Maherali MC/MPA, inspired by international non-governmental issues. Six months ago, I switched gears women across the world. The combination explore why human proposal that would meet the needs of all the Advanced Workshop in Multiparty organization focused on health care and to tech-for-development by joining of deep policy analysis with hands-on rights matter even the public institutions during this COVID-19 Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, legal assistance to forced migrants, Wadhwani AI. Here, I build AI products 2019 practice orientation of the MPP are key during a pandemic. pandemic. I also implemented a launched Venn Mediation LLC in New York asylum seekers, refugees, and other for the next 5 billion, and regularly Lucien Charland MPP writes, “I launched a skills for her in both roles, and her PAE on comprehensive economic reactivation City. Venn is a full-service mediation underrepresented minorities in the USA draw on lessons taught by David Eaves company teaching Python computer women’s economic empowerment now ken.sc/policycast plan to save jobs.” provider, handling divorce and family and abroad. The organization’s mission and Stephen Goldsmith on using coding for data analysis: Code From Zero. serves as an important foundation for her disputes, commercial, and workplace is to address long-term determinants of Brian Monahan MC/MPA writes, “I have technology for public good.” Students and early professionals across work championing gender equality. dispute resolution. From disputes that health, lower health care costs, and been working from home as an attorney are in their initial stages to those already Andy Swab MPP is a management provide legal representation by and policy analyst during the pandemic in the legal process, Venn assists their consultant based out of Washington, D.C., conducting evidence-based psychosocial while homeschooling my two daughters, clients to find settlement terms and where he works on cybersecurity and risk assessments to build compelling legal Keira (6) and Maddie (4). My wife, Rhonda, deals that work for them. The company management projects for the U.S. defenses. Through their strategic and I continue to live in Lexington, writes regularly about conflict resolution, government. He currently splits his time partnerships, Lumiere Health Massachusetts, and look forward to has an active social media following, and between D.C. and New Hampshire. International contributes to an attending more Harvard alumni events has been published on mediate.com and approximately 90 percent-plus following the pandemic. I continue to wait by the Federal Bar Association. Visit it success rate for court decisions in for a new kidney transplant and am at vennmediation.com. 2020 favor of their clients (e.g., immigrations grateful for more time with my family. Stay Diksha Bijlani MPP writes, “Regardless or asylum status granted, decreased safe everyone!” Stefan Norgaard MPP is now a PhD of my incessant rant about it all of severity of convictions). student in urban planning at Columbia Mercy Odongo MC/MPA is exercising spring, the PAE proved to be one of the University (degree expected 2024). He is Amanda Patarino MPP moved to leadership as a counselor at the Kenya most meaningful uses of my time at HKS. interested in good urban governance and Denver last March and began working Consulate in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. My PAE was on solar lighting adoption in participatory democratic practice and, in as an associate at McKinsey & Company In 2018, she was one of 200 young leaders o˜-grid Ethiopia, with the World Bank as particular, how cities’ public/private in September. selected from 44 countries for the client, and after graduation I got asked to arrangements a˜ect equitable inaugural class of the Obama Foundation support its implementation. So I am Naomi Senbet MPA writes, “After nearly development outcomes. Stefan’s empirical for Emerging Leaders Africa. Mercy has currently working with the World Bank, a decade away, I’m excited to share and written work engages urban and been a member of the Global Diplomatic witnessing my PAE come to life, and also that I’ve moved back to my hometown planning theory and mixed-methods Forum Youth Working Group since 2018. supporting the scaling of similar work I did of Washington, D.C.! Additionally, since research focused on South Africa and the She is also the founder and chief curator in Ethiopia to other sub-Saharan African graduation, I joined Guidehouse as a U.S.-Mexico border region. Stefan is now of the Adaptive Leadership Foundation. countries. And even though I am new at managing consultant in our state and living in Manhattan’s Morningside Heights In collaboration with HKS Executive the job itself, I can already take ownership local government advisory practice, with his fiancee, Bianca Chavez, who is Education, she has worked as a coach in of this project (and call it ‘my baby’) where I’m honored to solve challenging studying at Columbia Law School. transforming leadership for 21st century because thanks to HKS I’ve been working problems and build trust in society. The Africa. Since 2018 the program has David Richter MC/MPA won the Republican (long nights) on it for a year!” paradigm shift known as the COVID-19 trained over 140 emerging leaders from primary with 61 percent of the vote to pandemic has only reinforced my Tahsin Mashroof Hossain MPA writes, “I across Africa on the topic of Adaptive represent New Jersey’s Third ardent belief in the critical role of well- went back to Bangladesh, joined my Leadership for Africa: Chaos, Congressional District in the U.S. House of functioning governing bodies for previous workplace, and am currently Use the Alumni Complexity, and Courage. Representatives. [Editor’s note: David lost enabling long-term prosperity for all. In working as the deputy director (academic) Directory to contact to freshman Congressman Andy Kim in the that vein, we are approaching an Paul Orajiaka MPA writes, “I am currently of Police Sta˜ College, the apex training your classmates. general election in November.] inflection point in the valiant march running for the governorship of institution of Bangladesh Police. I am trying toward D.C. statehood. Support our hks.harvard.edu/ Anambra State in Nigeria under the All Maria Soledad Rueda Garcia MC/MPA to instill what I have learned at HKS in my campaign for representation! Our alumnidirectory Progressives Congress (APC) Party. writes, “Deeply transformative, following organization and help the Bangladeshi law hashtag is #51stState.” The elections are due in November the advice I went back quietly, reminding enforcement agencies to cultivate the

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FLEXIBLE GIFTS GIFTS CHANGE LIVES AT WORK The HKS Fund, dedicated to providing unrestricted and financial aid resources, has Gifts of all sizes combine to have an outsized impact on students. been a lifeline for students

during the pandemic. MUCH OF THE KENNEDY SCHOOL’S INCOME is restricted to specifi c areas, making unrestricted giving a very powerful source of funding—especially during the pandemic, when many students are seeing increased fi nancial need. More than half of Harvard Kennedy School’s operating budget is derived from philanthropy, and most of those dollars are restricted to foundational activities. Having the fl exibility to respond to new challenges as they arise— challenges like the pandemic—is crucial. That’s where the HKS Fund comes in: to fi ll urgent needs and spur innovation Zakhona Mvelase MC/MPA 2021 by students and faculty.

$ ZAKHONA MVELASE MC/MPA 2021 came to HKS to improve tuition. Mvelase is also part of the Mason Program, which assists students not only with tuition but also with learning 50 DONORS X 100 her ability to address o†cial malfeasance in South Africa provides additional opportunities for her to connect with resources, including case studies and technology—something Provide funding for an unpaid and beyond. A forensic auditor at the South African National students from developing economies. especially important during the pandemic as students study Treasury, she says, “Having worked in anti-corruption for the “I’ve been exposed to students from Africa and around the and take classes remotely. summer internship past decade, you soon realize that corruption is a wicked hard world who, in one way or another, have worked in the anti- Caitlin Santacroce, director of the HKS Fund, says the problem. Everyone sees it and pledges their commitment corruption space and who have the same aspirations as me,” she fl exible nature of this annual fund has helped the School to to fight it with the best of intentions—but still, it persists. I says. “We are able to learn from each other and build a coalition, pivot rapidly to address the pandemic. “The HKS Fund is a wanted to understand what we were missing. Coming to HKS so we can help each other be successful once the year is over.” crucial resource that Dean Elmendorf can deploy quickly $ gave me an opportunity to broaden my lens and learn from Mvelase never imagined she would attend HKS online— to address emerging needs,” she says. “This fl exibility is 30 DONORS X 500 others who had been successful, what made them successful.” but she says she and her peers are looking on the bright side. critical to the School’s ability to o— er students additional Support the development of student-run She says that as a public servant, she did not have the “We’ve already made lemonade out of this time, and virtually resources, such as hardship grants or funding to fi ll in the publications opportunity for her employer to forged some pretty intimate gaps for those whose external grants fell through as a result pay for her schooling abroad, so — relations with each other as a of COVID-19.” she would not have been able to “Young girls in my township look at cohort—not to mention the ideas For Mvelase, the benefi ts of her fi nancial aid extend far attend HKS without the support me and say, ‘Harvard is no longer we’ve toyed with to make this beyond her. She says, “Young girls in my township look at me of donors to Harvard Kennedy year as meaningful as can be,” and say, ‘Harvard is no longer just a school in the movies— $ just a school in the movies—someone 53 DONORS X 1,000 School, including alumni and she says. someone we know, someone who looks like us, who came friends who give to the HKS Fund. we know, someone who looks like Students like Mvelase are the from the very same background as us, went to Harvard.’ Cover the base tuition for an HKS student Her exceptional academic ability us, who came from the very same reason the HKS Fund exists. This The fi nancial aid not only helped me fulfi ll my dreams, but it and professional distinction background as us, went to Harvard.’” annual fund, which is dedicated solidifi ed the other dream I had, to show girls that if I could helped her to receive a Kennedy to providing unrestricted go to Harvard, they could have the same story.” _ Fellowship, which covers her full ZAKHONA MVELASE and financial aid resources, MVELASE OF ZAKHONA COURTESY IMAGES

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OVER THE PAST MONTHS, the School has made huge strides in adapting to the new environment, guided by the University’s campaign to Keep Harvard Healthy. And with the new year came hope for new beginnings, including preparations for a gradual reopening of campus. In early January, sta‚ from HKS and the University, including Belfer Center Fellow Flavia Chen, put all the planning and modifications to the test during a practice day.

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