Marshall Ganz

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Photo illustration of rainbow pride flag and American flag waved by protester outside Supreme Court; man wearing Black Lives Matter shirt; mother holding child after school shooting.

The legacy of the 2010s

Harvard experts reflect on some of the most important moments and cultural trends

World|

DateDecember 23, 2019July 22, 2020

Kennedy School graduates Guillaume Liegey (left) and Brune Poirson discuss their experience guiding Emmanuel Macron to victory just weeks after graduating. Arthur Goldhammer (right) also participated in the event. Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer

An electoral French revolution

Young Kennedy School grads explain how what they learned here helped them win key races there

World|

DateSeptember 27, 2017July 26, 2019

The costs of inequality: When a fair shake isn’t

Harvard researchers, scholars identify stubborn tenets of America’s built-in inequity, offer answers

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DateFebruary 1, 2016September 3, 2020

After a screening of their new film "Cesar Chavez," director Diego Luna (center) and producer Pablo Cruz (left) spoke with Marshall Ganz, a senior lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School who worked with Chavez in the 1960s. “Nothing has been so personal in my life,” said Luna about telling Chavez's story.

The leadership of Cesar

Film recounts life of Chavez, who organized farm workers

Arts|

DateMarch 4, 2014May 21, 2019

Harvard Divinity School student Usra Ghazi (at podium), a junior fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions, moderated a panel titled “Faith-Based Community Organizing: How Working With the Religious Other Can Save the World.”

Faith as fountainhead

Religion can help drive real-world, grassroots organizing, panelists say

World|

DateFebruary 20, 2014May 2, 2019

Harvard, said Nancy Gutierrez, took her “from being a good leader to a highly skilled, thoughtful, and reflective leader.” Gutierrez, along with 20 other women and men, are the first graduates of an interdisciplinary Harvard program designed to create a corps of leaders to transform the nation’s public school system.

Transformative leaders

First cohort graduates from innovative doctor of education leadership program

Campus|

DateMay 30, 2013April 16, 2019

Harvard University Center for the Environment symposium on social action and climate change, at Sanders Theater. Marshall Ganz, Theda Skocpol, Andrew Hoffman, Dan Schrag, Rebecca Henderson, and Stephen Ansolabehere.
Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer

A groundswell on climate change

Social action, rather than government edict, may break policy logjam, panel says

Science|

DateFebruary 14, 2013May 6, 2019

Empowering a growing minority

Latino Leadership Initiative trains students in community organizing

World|

DateJuly 2, 2012July 11, 2019

“I really appreciate being exposed to an environment with a lot of expertise, a lot of people who really understand public health problems,” said Pedrag Stojicic, who was just another physician in Serbia when he was guided to the United States and, ultimately, Harvard, after working on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008.

Organizing for health care

Stojicic sets sights on improving Serbia’s health

Campus|

DateMay 25, 2012June 14, 2019

Marshall Ganz (from left), Vanessa Williamson, Todd Gitlin, and Edward Rendell attempted to parse the meaning of the Occupy Wall Street protest, whose chief metaphor is “99 percent,” meaning the vast majority of Americans who have failed to gain economic ground while Wall Street profits have grown.

The 99 percent solution

Sessions ponder import, offshoots of protests against Wall Street

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DateOctober 14, 2011July 26, 2019

Fighting modern slave trade

Katherine Chon's HKS degree will provide new strategies

Campus|

DateMay 27, 2010July 19, 2019