Join us for a conversation with Jack Lew, the 76th Secretary of the Treasury from 2013 to 2017. Lew also served as White House Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama and Director of the Office of Management and Budget in both the Obama and Clinton Administrations.

Welcome by
The Honorable Mark D. Gearan
Director, Institute of Politics

A conversation with
The Honorable Jeff Flake
United States Senator, Arizona (2013 - 2019)
Leah Wright Rigueur (Moderator)
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Resident Fellow Ambassador Cathy Russell is joined by her guest, Kakenya Ntaiya, founder and president of the Kakenya Center for Excellence, a primary boarding school for girls in a Maasai village in Kenya.

Jason Furman
Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Mary L. Gray
Microsoft Research
School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering Faculty, Indiana University
Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society Fellow, Harvard University
David Weil
Dean and Professor, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University
David Eaves (Moderator)
Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

After a 13 year stalemate, is a bipartisan immigration solution possible? Join IOP Resident Fellow Rep. Carlos Curbelo and his guest, former Rep. Lincoln Díaz-Balart (FL-21) to discuss the policy and politics of that issue.

IOP Resident Fellow Michael Zeldin will review the history of independent counsel investigations from Watergate to Mueller with his guest, Julian Zelizer, Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University and Timothy Naftali, Clinical Associate Professor of Public Service, NYU; Founding Director, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.

Join Rep. Barbara Comstock and her guest Dana Perino (via Skype), former White House Press Secretary, for a study group about political communication at all levels. 

Join IOP Resident Fellow Aisha Moodie-Mills and her guest Cristóbal Alex, President of the Latino Victory Fund, to tackle important questions about the future of Democratic electoral politics.

Join Senator Heidi Heitkamp and Gary Cohn for a deep dive into the real state of healthcare in America.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
President, Waterkeeper Alliance

Rand Wentworth
Louis Bacon Senior Fellow in Environmental Leadership and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
President Emeritus, Land Trust Alliance

Mayor Gillum will be joined by the Mayor of Saint Paul, MN Melvin Carter for a discussion about the economic and cultural renaissance happening in cities all over the country, led by a new generation of innovative and dynamic mayors.
 

A conversation with
Don Lemon
Anchor, CNN's Tonight with Don Lemon

Aisha Moodie-Mills
Immediate Past President & CEO of the Victory Fund & Institute (2015-2017)
Democratic strategist

Samuel Kessler '19
IOP Student Advisory Committee Member

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