Maxine Isaacs

Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy
Shorenstein Center
Office Address
Non Resident
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 113
79 JFK Street
Contact
Email: maxine_isaacs@Harvard.Edu
Maxine Isaacs

Profile

Maxine Isaacs, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, received her PhD from the University of Maryland, where her dissertation was on the relationship between elite and mass opinion on American foreign policy. Since 1994, she has taught at the Kennedy School and George Washington University and delivered lectures at the Maxwell School, Humphrey Institute, APSIA, and others. She was Walter F. Mondale's press secretary and Deputy Campaign Manager from 1983 to 1984 and served as Project Director on Mondale's Fifty Years memoir project. Isaacs worked in the White House, U.S. Senate, and U.S. Congress from 1971 to 1981. Isaacschairs the Women's Foreign PolicyGroup and is a Trustee of Skidmore College, the Sidwell Friends School, Signature Theatre and a member of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press Advisory Board and others. She received her BA from Skidmore College and her master's from Johns Hopkins's SAIS.

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