Where Do HKS Grads Go? Read the Class of 2022 Employment Snapshot
Each spring, the Office of Career Advancement publishes an employment report highlighting the employment outcomes of the previous year’s graduating class. It’s always exciting to see the amazing things HKS graduates go on to do once they leave campus—a......
Being a Course Assistant at HKS
By Armughan Syed MPA 2024As you’re thinking about the many opportunities that await you as part of your HKS experience, I want to take this opportunity to tell you about being a course assistant. Before I do that, let me introduce myself. I’m a Pakista......
Get to Know HKS: Student Q&A with Kevin Thaddeus Brown, Jr.
Kevin Thaddeus Brown, Jr. is a second-year MPP student from San Francisco, California. Prior to attending HKS, he spent several years working in education program management and social and education policy research. He’s interested in making state and ......
Student Conferences at HKS: Social Enterprise Conference
Photo credit: Chokarella (www.chokarella.com) Each spring, Harvard students organize a series of student-led conferences. These conferences focus on issues that are timely, relatable, and of substance. And they’re also opportunities for our students t......
Get to Know HKS: Student Q&A with Jennifer Beltran
Jennifer Beltran is a first-year MPP student from Southern California. Her main area of interest is anti-poverty policy.What is your favorite thing about your experience at HKS?My favorite thing about HKS so far has been the fact that there is always s......
Admission and financial aid decisions have been released
After months of application review and committee deliberations, we have released admission and financial aid decisions for our master’s degree programs.If you applied for admission this cycle, you should have received an email with the subject line “Ha......
Student Conferences at HKS: India Conference
Each spring, Harvard Kennedy School students organize a series of student-led conferences focusing on issues that are timely, relatable, and of substance. And they’re also opportunities for our students to listen to, learn from, and speak with thought ......
Policy Topics: Opposing Racism and Discrimination through Public Policy and Leadership
If you’ve spent any time browsing the HKS website, you may have stumbled across the Policy Topics section of the site, and within it, a spotlight on Opposing Racism and Discrimination. There you’ll find recent scholarship from our faculty members and o......
More than 150 years after the birth of William Monroe Trotter, his legacy comes alive at Harvard
Black social justice pioneer William Monroe Trotter continues to energize a new generation of Harvard students to take up the mantle of his lifelong struggle for racial justice. His legacy lives on through the work of the William Monroe Trotter Collabo......
HKS courses and seminars related to race, policy, and inequality
As a school of public policy, HKS plays a unique role in advancing knowledge about how policy has been historically influenced by race and how to address systemic racism. To educate the next generation of public leaders, HKS offers a range of courses a......
Black History Month in the Forum | Reparations: Story, History, and Democracy - Now
Tomorrow, the William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice and the Institute of Politics will host a discussion on the legacy of Callie House and the long legacy of reparatory justice movements for Black Americans. Panelists include: Kirsten......
Additional Fellowship Opportunities for Applicants
While the primary HKS application for financial aid has now closed, there are several additional fellowship opportunities for applicants.Zuckerman FellowshipThe Zuckerman Fellows Program equips people from the fields of medicine, law, and business to p......