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HKS Magazine HARVARD + KENNEDY CONFRONTING THE PANDEMIC RECKONING OVER RACE AND INJUSTICE SEEKING LEADERSHIP AMID SCHOOL UNCERTAINTY magazine summer 2020 RISING TO THE CHALLENGE 1w_eHbK pSdmf sapge_csiaul2.i0n_dcdv r 11-4_options_R_8_11_20.indd 3 8/1210/20 31:051 PM THE SIXTH COURSE ROCHELLE LINDSAY MC/MPA 2020 celebrated her graduation with her daughter. The 605 members of the Harvard Kennedy School Class of 2020 tuned in on May 28 for a virtual graduation celebration, with remarks from Dean Doug Elmendorf and guest speaker Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former finance minister of Nigeria. PHOTO BY RAYCHEL CASEY summersummer 20202020 | harvard kennedy school 1 2w eHbK pSdmf asgp_escuia2l.0in_dIFdC 22--131_webPDF.indd 2 8/19/20 2:38 PM 2 HKSmag_su20_IFC2-11_webPDF.indd 1 8/1290/20 21:3581 PM EXECUTIVE SUMMARY IN THIS ISSUE AT HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL we have experienced the most unusual spring and early Associate Dean for summer in recent memory—as I know many of you have as well. But despite the obstacles Communications and Public Affairs posed by the pandemic, we are pursuing our teaching, research, and outreach with great Thoko Moyo vigor and intensity. Managing Editor I am writing this message on the day I welcomed the new mid-career class to the Kennedy Nora Delaney School. I shared my excitement about the year that lies ahead and told these students that Editor they, like generations before them, would fi nd their time with us to be thought-provoking, Robert O’Neill empowering, and inspiring. Indeed, our faculty and staff are focused intently this summer on Director of Alumni Relations building new online courses and cocurricular arrangements, and our students are working Karen Bonadio with us in these efforts. Designers In our research and outreach, we are helping public offi cials around the world respond Janet Friskey Raychel Casey to the pandemic with effective public management, economic programs, social policy, crisis Rachel Harris leadership, international relations strategy, and much more. This issue of the magazine Contributing Writers features insights from our Dan Harsha faculty on what a post- Susan Hughes Cara Myers mpa/id 2018 pandemic world might look Jessica McCann (second from left) in the like, and how we can best field in Mozambique Mari Megias ALISON YIN protect people’s lives and Ralph Ranalli livelihoods. We are also Alessandra Seiter working actively to help James F. Smith overcome the entrenched Printer challenge of racial and ethnic Lane Press FEATURES injustice. This issue offers Harvard Kennedy School our experts’ views on race, Magazine is published two times 12 Policymaking in a Pandemic In a world gripped by the pandemic, HKS experts outline the role a year by the John F. Kennedy protests, and policing—how School of Government Offi ce of policymakers can play. we ended up where we are and Communications and Public Affairs what we can do to create more 79 John F. Kennedy Street 22 Destination Unknown How do leaders make decisions in uncertainty? just societies. Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 Along with the work of Phone: 617-495-1442 28 A Movement Greater Than This Tragic Moment Leading thinkers from HKS analyze our faculty and students, we Email: [email protected] a reckoning over race and injustice. With all campus activities taking place remotely this spring, showcase in this issue the Copyright © 2020 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. the breakfasts with the dean were virtual too. efforts of alumni who are The Mozambique School Lunch Initiative founded by Cara Myers mpa/id 2018 is All rights reserved. 34 A New Harvest using what they learned at Magazine Advisory Board helping to feed children and build local agriculture. the Kennedy School to serve others. Melissa Hortman mc/mpa 2018 is serving her state as Joe Bergantino mc/mpa 1985 speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives. Taurai Chinyamakobvu mc/mpa 2019 Phil Cronin mpp 1996 38 To Be More Than We Were For Melissa Hortman mc/mpa 2018, the pandemic and the killing has helped create a website to share accurate public information about the coronavirus while Tiziana Dearing mpp 2000 of George Floyd have changed the meaning of leadership. protecting user data. Sarah Bell mpp 2003 is helping central banks deal with economic crises, Melodie Jackson mc/mpa 2001 and Cara Myers mpa/id 2018 is improving nutrition for children in Mozambique. David King, faculty At the virtual graduation ceremony for the Class of 2020, I reminded our graduates that Chris Olver mpp 2012 mc/mpa their fundamental and ongoing responsibility as members of the HKS family is to serve others. Craig Sandler 2000 DEPARTMENTS Janice Saragoni mc/mpa 1989 These past few months have demonstrated just how important that responsibility is. I hope Remote Teaching | 40 Bully pulpit Ngozi Okonjo- 44 Alumni voices Classnotes | Jeffrey Seglin, faculty 4 Ideas that all our alumni—from the newest to those who graduated many years ago—take this sense mpp Ken Shulman mc/mpa 2004 Research Briefs Iweala | Sumbul Siddiqui | Leah Sara Minkara 2014 | Jerome Holmes of public purpose to heart. Our mission matters. Steven Singer mc/mpa 1986 Wright Rigueur | Sara Nelson | Jim mc/mpa 2000 | Theodora Skeadas mpp Profiles Sarah Bell mpp 2003 | Dean Doug Elmendorf Scott Talan mc/mpa 2002 8 McGovern | Paul Ryan | Lena Sun 2016 | Mark Iwry mpp/jd 1976 | W3D | mc/mpa Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy Donald Tighe mc/mpa 1999 Taurai Chinyamakobvu Adamas Belva Syah Devara mpa 2016 | 42 In print Why Do We Still Have July 2020 2019 Graduation Celebration the Electoral College? | The CARA MYERS 9 Faculty Jane Mansbridge | Condemnation of Blackness | 64 Ways and means Fundraising Todd Rogers ESY OF ESY OF The Hidden Face of Rights | Finding at HKS in the COVID-19 Era This magazine is printed on 100 percent Allies and Making Revolution | postconsumer waste paper (text) and 30 percent postconsumer waste paper On Trade Justice 66 Exit poll (cover) and is fsc® certifi ed. COURT PHOTO 2 www.hks.harvard.edu summer 2020 | harvard kennedy school 3 2w eHbK pSdmf asgp_escuia2l.0in_dIFdC 24--151_webPDF.indd 2 8/19/20 2:38 PM 2 HKSmag_su20_IFC2-11_webPDF.indd 3 8/20/20 1:051 PM SINCE MAY 2020 FIVE-DAY SPRING BREAK NEW PROGRAM 1,000+ 48 ONLINE CLASS OVER 20 IDEAS ONLINE CLASS SESSIONS WITH SUMMER SESSIONS 3,000+ STUDENTS SEMINARS ADAPTiNG TO NEW CIRCUMSTANCES Each term, the Dean’s Discussions give the HKS community a chance to engage with faculty outside the classroom. This spring and summer, the sessions, which typically are live events, went online, attracting hundreds of participants. The When students couldn’t come sessions, moderated by Dean Elmendorf’s to campus, faculty members chief of staff Sarah Wald, focused on the got creative: coronavirus pandemic: > A faculty-led, online teach-in during spring break > COVID-19: Leadership in Crisis, Leadership Through Crisis helped students transition to remote learning. Over Panelists: Matt Andrews, Julia Minson, Wendy Sherman fi ve days, faculty held 48 sessions with more than > COVID-19: The Economic Costs and Consequences 3,000 students. Panelists: Linda Bilmes, Karen Dynan, Jason Furman, > Lecturer in Public Policy Mark Fagan shifted his Rema Hanna course “Supply Chain Management for Public Service > COVID-19: Global Crisis Response and Management Delivery” to focus on health care during the pandemic. Panelists: Marcella Alsan, Juliette Kayyem, Dutch Leonard > This year Spring Exercise, which allows fi rst-year > COVID-19: The U.S. Response and Its Impact on International Harvard Kennedy School MOVED TO ONLINE TEACHING AND LEARNING students to work with public leaders and policymakers Relations to study real-world public challenges, pivoted to Panelists: Nicholas Burns, Samantha Power, Kathryn Sikkink last spring in order to protect the community during the pandemic. address COVID-19. Remote learning brought more fl exibility to the classroom. As Dean > COVID-19: Race and the Pandemic > Marshall Ganz, the Rita E. Hauser Senior Lecturer Panelists: Desmond Ang, Cornell William Brooks, Doug Elmendorf wrote in a message to the HKS community, “Our in Leadership, Organizing, and Civil Society, held Kahlil Gibran Muhammad, Leah Wright Rigueur sessions to train HKS faculty members to use online mission is not changing, but the way we advance that mission needs > COVID-19: Gender and the Pandemic pedagogy effectively. to adapt to our new circumstances.” Panelists: Hannah Riley Bowles, Kimberlyn Leary, > The Peter Wertheim Professor in Urban Policy Gordon Zoe Marks, Janina Matuszeski By early May, more than a thousand class sessions had taken place over Hanson and MPP Director Eleni Cortis developed new > COVID-19: Threats to and Opportunities for Democracy summer programming. An impressive series of more Zoom, along with countless meetings, conversations, offi ce hours, seminars, Panelists: Matthew Baum, Cornell William Brooks, than 20 faculty-led workshops was held over Zoom for Erica Chenoweth, Archon Fung and events—and more than a few coffee breaks and happy hours. On June 3, incoming and returning students. While classes were HKS made the decision to move to remote teaching and learning in the fall, not for credit, this initiative provided an opportunity > COVID-19: Effects in Developing Countries continuing the work of the spring semester. for students to connect with faculty and peers. Panelists: Eliana Carranza, Jeffrey Frankel, Rema Hanna, Isabel Guerrero Pulgar 4 www.hks.harvard.edu summer 2020 | harvard kennedy school 5 2w eHbK pSdmf asgp_escuia2l.0in_dIFdC 26--171_webPDF.indd 4 8/19/20 2:38 PM 2 HKSmag_su20_IFC2-11_webPDF.indd 5 8/1290/20 21:3581 PM IN MEMORIAMMEMMES Research Briefs Maximizing Research Excellence — WHAT CONTRIBUTES TO high levels of research productivity and impact? In her new working paper, “What Maximizes Research Excellence? Productivity and Prioritizing Public Value Impact in Political Science,” Paul F.
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