Former American senator Sherrod Brown and his wife Connie Shultz, a winning columnist from Pulitzer, will serve as visiting stock markets at the Harvard Kennedy School Politics Institute this spring.
This year, the IOP stock market class also includes seven resident scholarship holders, which IOP announced in a press release on Friday.
Two are former members of the Biden administration: the former acting secretary of work Julie SU and the former main advisor Michael Donilon.
They will be joined by the former acting secretary of health and social services Eric D. Hargan ’90; Joe Mitchell, the founder of Run Genz and a former republican representative of the state of Iowa; Ryan Dollar, Advocate General of the National Republican Senate Committee; Brittany Shepherd, political journalist at ABC News; And Ann Simmons, the former Moscow office chief at the Wall Street Journal.
“The remarkable group of this spring scholarship holders will engage our students in important conversations and will provide a precious overview of a range of critical problems,” wrote the director of the IOP Setti Warren in the press release.
Resident scholarship holders will lead eight -week study groups during the spring semester. Study groups will discuss subjects such as national political parties, governing divided America and the development of policies.
Mr. Smialek ’27 and Zoe Yu ’27, who chairs the program of scholarship holders and study groups, wrote in the press release that it is important to seek prospects through the ideological spectrum in the aftermath of the elections of 2024 – A time when democracy “it seemed not attached to its founding principles.”
“The exercise of democratic muscle requires recognizing that each of our stories is just as important for the broader American experience and understanding that democracy is not a spectator sport but an act of continuous commitment,” wrote Smilek and Yu. “It requires that we are looking for a shared truth not by withdrawing from ideological corners but having conversations, even if it is difficult.”
Donlion, who was chief strategist of the campaigns of President Biden 2020 and 2024, wrote in the press release that he was delighted to discuss government affairs during “one of the most consecutive periods of our history in America”.
“I can’t wait to hear how students see it and think about it,” added Donilon.
During the eight weeks of residence, each scholarship holder will work with students in his field of expertise. Su, who worked as a non -profit lawyer representing workers for almost two decades, wrote in the press release that she will focus on workers’ rights during the scholarship.
“We live in a time when an honest conversation and a critical commitment on the important questions of our time, in particular on the rights of workers and the well-being of workers, could not be more important,” said Su.
Hargan, who studied philosophy at Harvard, said in the press release that he hoped to “help Harvard give part of what the university gave me as a young man”, with a specific accent on opportunities in the public sector.
“It is important that students and members of the Harvard community understand how the public sector act and react in the health space, given the central role of the government,” he said.
Shepherd, who covered the 2024 elections for ABC News, will focus on the evolution of campaigns in the digital age.
“I can’t wait to unpack together what I can honestly say was an electoral cycle affected by the Internet like no other,” said Shepherd in the press release. “And for us to discover the answer to questions as if” Grenouette “- a presidential candidate has even been useful in the long term.”
Correction: January 31, 2025
A previous version of this article wrongly indicated that three scholarship holders of the spring of 2025 of the Politics Institute served in the Biden administration. In fact, only two did it.
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