Former Representative Barbara Comstock leads a weekly Study Group entitled "A Woman in the Arena." Her study group will focus on the variety of jobs and opportunities available throughout government service and the political landscape and how these positions allow you to advance the issues and causes you care about in the public arena. 

In the first week of Rep. Comstock's study group, she will introduce the goals and topics for the semester.

Aisha Moodie-Mills leads a weekly Study Group entitled "The Rise of the New American Majority." Each week will feature provocative discussions on the political implications of America’s demographic shift, the role of racial/identity politics in campaigns, the power of diversity with regards to candidates, campaigns, and Congressional staff, the implications for political parties, the 2020 Presidential contest, and much more!

Aisha's first study group session, "The Demographic Revolution," will provide context and information about the study group and allow participants to get to know each other and Aisha.

Former Senator Heidi Heitkamp and Gary Cohn co-lead a weekly study group entitled "The Real State of the Union." 

The first week's topic is "Debt, Deficit and Despair." They'll ask and attempt to answer questions like: where are we and where are we heading? And, is 4% economic growth possible?  Plus a look into tax and fiscal policy.

Ed Balls
Research Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, HKS
United Kingdom Shadow Chancellor (2011- 2015)
Harriet Cross
British Consul General to New England
Amanda Sloat
Robert Bosch Senior Fellow, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings
Fellow, Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs
Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook (Moderator)
Executive Director, The Future of Diplomacy Project and Executive Director, The Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, HKS

Former Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum leads a weekly Study Group entitled "This Is What Democracy Looks Like." 

"Who Are The Changemakers" is Mayor Gillum's first Study Group session and will provide an overview of the semester goals and topics for the coming weeks. 

A conversation with
Ambassador Caroline Kennedy
United States Ambassador to Japan (2013 to 2017)

Senator Ed Markey
United States Senator from Massachusetts

Join Former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter for the first session of a three-part spring semester 2019 study group on issues facing America’s cities. Nutter will draw on his time as a two-term mayor of Philadelphia and former member of the Philadelphia City Council to discuss how cities are grappling with issues related to corruption and ethics, criminal justice reform, economic development, and other issues.

Join our Spring 2019 Resident Fellows for a breakfast Open House for the Kennedy School community.  We'll be serving up hot cakes to go with your hot takes. Syrup included. 

Susan Crawford
John A. Reilly Clinical Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Special Assistant for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy to President Barack Obama (2009)
Dipayan Ghosh
Spring 2018 Pozen Fellow, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, HKS
Former Privacy & Public Policy Advisor, Facebook
Former White House Tech Policy Advisor
Laura Manley
Director of the Technology and Public Purpose Project, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS
Senior Consultant, World Bank Group and United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs
Tom Wheeler
Senior Research Fellow, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, HKS
Chairman of the Federal Communication Commission (2013-2017)
Nicco Mele (Moderator)
Lecturer in Public Policy and Director, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy, HKS

Join us for a discussion & interactive viewing of the 2019 State of the Union on the Forum big screen. 

Refreshments will be served!

A Conversation with
Barbara Comstock
U.S. Representative (R, VA-10) (2015-2019)
Carlos Curbelo
U.S. Representative (R, FL-26) (2015-2019)
Andrew Gillum
Mayor of Tallahassee, FL (2014-2018)
Aisha Moodie-Mills
Immediate Past President & CEO of the Victory Fund & Institute (2015-2017)
Democratic strategist
Catherine Russell
U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues (2013-2017)
Michael Zeldin
CNN Legal Analyst and former U.S. Department of Justice Official

Spring 2019 Visiting Fellows:
Gary Cohn
Director of the National Economic Council (2017-2018)
Heidi Heitkamp
U.S. Senator (D-ND) (2013-2019)

Mark D. Gearan (Moderator)
Director, Institute of Politics

Chaplain Khalil Abdur-Rashid
University Muslim Chaplain, Harvard University
Instructor of Muslim Studies, Harvard Divinity School
Father J. Bryan Hehir
Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life, Harvard Kennedy School
Secretary of Health and Social Services on the staff of Cardinal Sean O’Malley, Archdiocese of Boston
Brittany Packnett
Vice President of National Community Alliances, Teach for America
Contributor, Crooked Media
Fall 2018 Institute of Politics Resident Fellow
Co-founder, Campaign Zero
Rabbi Jonah Pesner
Director, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
Senior Vice President, Union for Reform Judaism
Reverend Cornell William Brooks (Moderator)
Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership and Social Justice, and Director,  William Monroe Trotter Collaborative  for Social Justice, Harvard Kennedy School
18th President & CEO, NAACP

“In this moment of generationally unprecedented activism, millions are engaged in moral resistance.  Whether it be the Women’s Marches, March for Our Lives, Border demonstrations, Climate Marches or Black Lives Matter, religious activists are both sources of support and opposition. This JFK Jr. Forum explores some of the most recent policy, moral and organizational movement challenges of when faith and activism meet in the streets.”