The IOP’s Policy Program includes groups of undergraduates united over a common interest in a particular policy area. Groups meet regularly, research their area of interest, and produce a brief policy proposal of their findings. The program allows undergr ...

On Monday, February 1, Harvard Law School Professor Randall Kennedy joined the IOP’s Harvard Political Union and the Politics of Race and Ethnicity program for a discussion about racial justice and political correctness in today’s society. The discussion ...

Want to be part of Election 2016's Super Tuesday by participating in the Massachusetts Presidential Primary on March 1st? There’s still time to register to vote! If you register before Wednesday, February 10, you will be eligible to vote in the state ...

What's at the intersection of money, power, and politics? International finance and there's no better expert to talk about that intersection than spring 2016 Fellow Christopher Smart. Smart served as special assistant to the President and senior ...

Anne Hawley joins the IOP as a resident Fellow after serving as director of one of Boston’s finest art institutions, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, since 1989. Previously, Anne served as executive director of the Massachusetts Council on the Arts an ...

Max Finberg is the director of AmeriCorps VISTA. On February 22, he takes the stage of the JFK Jr. Forum to reflect on 50 years of the organization and what public service means in America today. The IOP asked Finberg five questions about advice for a car ...

The Public Interested Conference invites Harvard students to explore postgraduate public service opportunities with the help of alumni each January. The conference is coordinated by the Phillips Brooks House Center for Public Service and Engaged Scholarsh ...

Spring 2016 Fellow Annise Parker served as mayor of Houston, the fourth largest city in the US, for six years. She is only the tenth woman and first gay mayor to lead a major American city. Parker came into politics with 20 years of private sector experie ...

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 ...

Millennial Must-Reads are student-contributed posts by members of the "Millennial" generation- America's 18-29 year-olds- on current events and politics and public service. Viewpoints expressed are exclusively attributed to undergraduate au ...