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Galbraith scholars convene
Sixteen undergraduate Galbraith Scholars, selected from colleges across the country, came together in June at the Kennedy School for a weeklong program dedicated to issues of inequality and social policy. Now in its third year, the Galbraith Scholars program aims to introduce exceptional undergraduates, particularly students of color and students of limited economic means, to graduate and career opportunities pertaining to social policy.The 2001 Galbraith Scholars hailed from as far as Xavier University of Louisiana and the University of California, Berkeley, as well as 11 other colleges and universities.
This year's Galbraith Scholars activities included workshops with Kennedy School faculty, including sociologist Xavier de Souza Briggs, economist David Ellwood, anthropologist Katherine Newman, and sociologist William Julius Wilson. Students also heard from Karla Ballard, president of the National Urban League Young Professionals; anthropologist and filmmaker John Jackson of the Harvard Society of Fellows; and Robert Reich, former U.S. secretary of labor and now University Professor at Brandeis. Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, delivered the keynote lecture at a luncheon on June 12. Later that afternoon, the scholars met with the program's namesake, John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus.
Selected from a pool of 200 applicants, the 2001 Galbraith Scholars and their undergraduate institutions are Adán Briones (University of Texas, Austin), Amy Chen (Harvard University), Alexandro Cota (University of Texas, Austin), Beandrea Davis (University of Pennsylvania), Somjen Frazer (Cornell University), Chris Elders (Morehouse College), Shannon Gleeson (Santa Clara University), Daniel Korobkin (Swarthmore College), Shanna Magee (Xavier University of Louisiana), Clarisse Mesa (University of Chicago), Paul Miller (University of Southern California), Westley Moore (Johns Hopkins University), Christina Mora (University of California, Berkeley), Brittanya Murillo (University of California, Berkeley), Parag Pathak (Harvard University), and Jeremy Skinner (New York University).
The Galbraith Scholars program is run by the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy, a National Science Foundation initiative housed at the Kennedy School of Government.
For more information, visit http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/inequality/.
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