"Leveraging robust public-private partnerships to spark community-based economic development is key to the future of American politics. It is critical that, regardless of scale, the public sector hears directly from the community they are governing, ...

#IOPSummer15: During the summer of 2015, the Institute is proud to sponsor and work with over 250 students who are spending their summers in politics and public service around the world. Follow our interns on our blog and on social using #IOPSummer15. As ...

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 ...

Biography:  Anjali Fernandes is a rising sophomore at Harvard University, originally from St. Louis, Missouri. She is a prospective concentrator in Computer Science with a secondary field in Government. On campus, she is competes on the nationally ranked ...

Biography:  Avinash Saraf is a rising junior at Harvard University where he studies Social Studies with a secondary field in Computer Science. Originally from Edison, New Jersey, he is heavily involved in Model UN at Harvard and currently serves as one of ...

Biography:  Matt Krane is a rising sophomore in Pforzheimer House. Matt's studies take him across the humanities/mathematics schism often, as he divides his time between math, literature, computer science, and history courses. He likes to confuse peo ...

Biography:  Alexis Medina is a rising senior in Eliot House concentrating in Social Studies with a focus field in Identity and Inequality in Urban America. Originally from Bridgeport, Connecticut, she is excited to apply her academic interests to an inter ...

Biography:  Devi Nair is a rising junior in Quincy House, concentrating in Government. Originally from Dallas, Texas, Devi will be off to D.C. this summer to work at the Heritage Foundation. She will be working in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic ...

Biography:  Kyleigh Keating, is a rising junior in Mather House. She was born in Renton Washington but has lived in Windham New Hampshire for most of her life. She attended and boarded at Phillips Andover Academy for her junior and senior years. She conce ...

Biography:  Olivia Castor is a rising junior in Mather House from Spring Valley, New York. She is pursuing a joint concentration in Social Studies and African American Studies focusing on Black Political thought, with a language citation in Swahili. While ...