Meet Annise Parker, Spring 2016 Resident Fellow at the IOP. Parker served as mayor Houston, the fourth-largest city in the US.

The annual Public Interested Conference helps encourage Harvard students to pursue careers in public service. Senior Aaron Mukerjee reflects on the connects he made there and the responsibility to give back.

Director of AmeriCorps VISTA Max Finberg reflects on the organization's 50 year history, during which more than 200,000 people have served across America.

Introducing Anne Hawley! The spring Fellow and former director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum talks about political participation, how she started an NGO with little experience, and how art can define communities.

Get to know Christopher Smart, Spring 2016 Resident Fellow at the IOP. Christopher previously served as special assistant to the President and brings to the IOP his expertise in how international politics and economics shapes the national and global agenda.

Step-by-step instructions to register to vote in the Massachusetts Presidential Primary of March 1.

Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP) recently kicked off the Spring 2016 semester with its biannual Open House event. Eager undergraduates flooded the halls of the JFK Jr. Forum at the Harvard Kennedy School, looking to register for programming and catch a sneak preview of the year to come.

Harvard Law School Professor Randall Kennedy's 3 things for students to know about racial justice and political correctness in today's society.

This Fall, one group from IOP's Policy Program researched economic inequality in the US and a proposed bill in the Massachusetts State House that would tax corporations paying their CEOs more than 100 times what they pay their average workers.

Get to know the IOP's Women's Initiative in Leadership (WIL) group. 

Introducing the 2016 Spring IOP Resident and Visiting Fellows. The 2016 Fellows are a dynamic group of leaders reflecting the powerful impact political engagement can have both inside and outside government, said IOP Director Maggie Williams.

Ambassador Swanee Hunt takes the stage of the JFK Jr. Forum to moderate a discussion on "Inclusive Security: Standing Up To Violence." We spoke to Hunt about the necessity of including women in peace discussions, and what the U.S. Congress could stand to learn from legislatures around the world.