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Tag: Marshall Ganz
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Nation & World
‘What is compelling to do right now?’
Marshall Ganz started at Harvard but took some time off — about three decades — to become Civil Rights, labor, political organizer, and finally scholar, mentor.
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Nation & World
Weatherhead fellow aims to pair social justice, sports
Ex-pro soccer player Justin Morrow, founder of Black Players for Change, focuses on raising diversity in leadership roles.
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Nation & World
The legacy of the 2010s
Harvard experts recalling some of the biggest moments of the 2010s.
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Nation & World
An electoral French revolution
Two recent Harvard Kennedy School graduates talk about how their involvement in Emmanuel Macron’s insurgent campaign in France had roots in their time at Harvard.
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Nation & World
The costs of inequality: When a fair shake isn’t
Inequality is rampant in American life and is a key topic in the presidential campaign, but Harvard faculty members have been exploring its many facets for decades, and suggesting some solutions.
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Nation & World
The leadership of Cesar
Mexican actor Diego Luna came to town to premiere his latest film, “Cesar Chavez,” to the Harvard community before its nationwide release. The film marks Luna’s directorial debut.
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Nation & World
Faith as fountainhead
Marshall Ganz ’91, who is credited with devising a grassroots organizing model used by President Obama, says that religious faith can play a greater role in community organizing.
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Nation & World
Transformative leaders
The first cohort from Harvard’s innovative doctorate of education leadership degree program leaves campus headed for a range of education jobs and armed with new skills to help transform the field.
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Nation & World
A groundswell on climate change
More vigorous grassroots social action is needed to drive the reforms that could address climate change, panelists said during a discussion at Sanders Theatre.
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Nation & World
Empowering a growing minority
Now in its third year, the Latino Leadership Initiative brought 41 students from eight universities to Harvard for a week of leadership training, reflection, and strategizing on projects they will implement when they return to their largely Latino communities.
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Nation & World
Organizing for health care
Pedrag Stojicic, who is graduating from the Harvard School of Public Health, plans to apply his passion for organizing to problems in his Serbian homeland, including HIV/AIDS and physician corruption.
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Nation & World
The 99 percent solution
Occupy Wall Street, the inspiration for hundreds of similar economic protests, is “an angry work in progress” that drew experts’ attention during two programs at Harvard.
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Nation & World
Fighting modern slave trade
Katherine Chon found her passion in opposing human trafficking worldwide, and her Kennedy School degree will provide new strategies for doing so.
