Ben Likis

Superintendent of Boston Public Schools, Boston MA
2012

Ben Likis is a rising senior in Cabot House concentrating in Social Studies. He studies inequality in urban American education, and plans to pursue a career in law and education reform. A Cambridge native, Ben has served as a teacher at Breakthrough Cambridge for three summers and taught English abroad through WorldTeach Costa Rica. This summer he will be interning with Dr. Carol R. Johnson, Superintendent for Boston Public Schools. He hopes to gain valuable insight into district management from the nation’s oldest and most innovative public school district. Ben is a Peer Advising Fellow and a proud member of the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College.