Our Mission The Harvard Votes Challenge (HVC) is a non-partisan, university-wide effort organized by the IOP and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School. We are challenging each of Harvard’s 12 degree-granting sch ...

How can I register to vote? Go to Turbo Vote to register online. Should I register to vote in my college community or in my hometown? By law, you can register to vote in either location – NOT both! Many students feel more connected and know more about the ...

Rohan Pavuluri '18 is the 2016 IOP Gov 2.0 Grant recipient. A statistics concentrator, he is a co-founder of  Upsolve.org, a non-profit organization created to help low-income New Yorkers navigate the process of bankruptcy in order to gain a second c ...

RSVP here to receive a link to the film  (RSVP by Sat. 9/19 at 4pm ET) Inside the ACLU, five scrappy lawyers battle against the Trump administration's historic assault on civil liberties- from separating families at the border, to rolling back transg ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A national poll of America’s 18- to 29- year-olds released today by the Institute of Politics (IOP) at Harvard Kennedy School found significant interest in the upcoming election with the likelihood of turning out to vote at levels not seen ...

The Harvard Public Opinion Project conducts a biannual poll examining the political opinions and civic engagement of young Americans ages 18 to 29. Since its conception by two Harvard undergraduate students in 2000, the Harvard Public Opinion Project has ...

 We invite you to celebrate National Voter Registration Day with Harvard Votes Challenge in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at 6pm ET on Tuesday, September 22nd.  This fall, Secretaries of States across the country face the unique challenge of administering ...

Nanda Chitre joined the Institute of Politics as the Director of the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum in 2020. Nanda has more than twenty years of experience working in the executive branch of the U.S. government, in national public-policy and political campaign ...

The Harvard undergraduate community is invited to join the Institute of Politics (IOP) at Harvard Kennedy School’s National Campaign Election 2020 series this Fall.  The IOP’s National Campaign brings together students and administrators from colleges and ...

The Fellows and Study Groups program brings six or more prominent figures of the political world to campus each semester as IOP Fellows. Each Fellow hosts eight not-for-credit study groups throughout the semester in their areas of expertise, the formats o ...