Nation & World

Madelyn Petersen explored her passions for business and human rights and community lawyering at Harvard Law School. She is currently interning with the Corporate Accountability Lab in Chicago before starting a clerkship with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Erica Mosca founded Leaders in Training (LIT) in 2012, an organization that helps prospective first-generation college students from East Las Vegas high schools finish their degrees and work toward becoming leaders in their home state. She is herself a first-generation college graduate and a social justice advocate.

Food justice activist and author of “Farming While Black” Leah Penniman spoke of the barriers faced by young people of color who are drawn to farming.

Impacts of climate change and fossil fuel burning can be particularly dire for the vulnerable, like the planet’s youth, who are watching out for their interests by staging a global climate strike, according to C-Change’s Aaron Bernstein.

Anne Sung is a native of Houston and a graduate of the city’s public schools. Since 2016 she has served as a trustee of the Houston Independent School District. She is also a public school educator, advocate, and strategist.

Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson offered his take on global leaders and hotspots, from Iran and Saudi Arabia to North Korea and Syria and discussed diplomacy negotiation strategies during a closed-door talk for the American Secretaries of State project at Harvard Kennedy School Tuesday.

Emily Broad Leib is an assistant clinical professor of law, director of the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, and deputy director of the Harvard Law School Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation. As founder of the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, Broad Leib launched the first law school clinic in the nation devoted to providing clients with legal and policy solutions to address the health, economic, and environmental challenges facing our food system.

Rye Barcott is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran living in North Carolina. He is the co-founder and CEO of With Honor, a group that aims to bridge partisanship in U.S. politics by supporting veterans running for office.

On Monday the man who has emerged as a celebrity of the Brexit debate, Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow, came to campus during a brief break from his duty as official referee of the popularly elected legislative body.

Brickson Diamond is the co-founder of Blackhouse, a foundation that helps black writers, producers, directors, and executives gain a better foothold in the film and television industries.

Benet Magnuson is a native Kansan and the executive director of Kansas Appleseed. His career has been dedicated to nonprofit advocacy on behalf of impoverished and excluded communities.

Izzy Goodchild-Michelman is a South Carolina native who spent six weeks working for Hub City Urban Farm in Spartanburg, S.C., before she started at Harvard. She helped write grants and revamped the educational Seed to Table curriculum that’s used with elementary and middle school students.

Harvard Kennedy School researchers release report urging Congress to close its growing tech-knowledge gap.

Symposium celebrates career of William Julius Wilson.

Samantha Power says the desire to make positive change springs from understanding our connections as people.

An excerpt from “The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir” by Samantha Power.

Harvard biologist and longtime Amazon rainforest researcher Brian Farrell discusses how the forest fires raging in Brazil are threatening the planet’s climate, and how to stop them.

An interview with HGSE professor Jal Mehta about the book “In Search of Deeper Learning” he co-authored with Sarah Fine, Ed.M. ’13, Ed.D. ’17. The book examines the American high school and where students are experiencing deeper learning, which involves engagement, joy, and a sense of community.

In the wake of mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, the Gazette spoke with David Hemenway, professor of health policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, and author of the 2006 book “Private Guns, Public Health.” Hemenway has spent much of his career studying gun violence.

A collaboration between Harvard’s Opportunity Insights and public housing agencies in Washington state found that giving support and advice about housing options to families with housing choice vouchers led to significantly more of them moving to areas where children have higher recorded rates of upward mobility.

Harvard archaeology Professor Matthew Liebmann sat down with the Gazette to talk about his research, how his field has reckoned with the past, and how both influence his teaching.

Rachel Louise Snyder spoke with Diane Rosenfeld, a lecturer and director of the Gender Violence Program at Harvard Law School, about her book “No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Abuse Can Kill Us.”

Jonathan M. Hansen’s biography of Fidel Castro’s early years aims to “get past the demonization and celebration and recover the complex person in the middle.”

An unusual find during a Harvard Summer School program archaeological dig teaches students the fundamentals at one of Peru’s most important sites.

Larry Bacow visited the nation’s capital this week to meet with members of Congress to discuss a range of University priorities, including the effects of federal immigration policy on faculty and students at Harvard and at universities across the nation. The visit comes on the heels of a letter Bacow sent to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan last week urging them to expedite the visa and immigration process for foreign students and researchers.

The Gazette spoke with China expert Anthony Saich, director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School, about the protests and about what the future might hold for Hong Kong.

In his latest book, Sunil Amrith, the Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies and chair of the Department of South Asian Studies, describes the ageless link between water and prosperity in South Asia and examines the new challenges of climate change.

Harvard scholars reflect on the history and legacy of the 1969 Stonewall demonstrations that triggered the contemporary battle for LGBT rights in America.

Harvard Kennedy School researcher and former Obama official Thomas Abt’s new book offers a concrete prescription for bringing peace to the streets.

Corporate America began embracing workplace initiatives to end harassment nearly a half century ago. So why is it still a big problem?