Nolan
Bowie Adjunct Lecturer in
Public Policy and Senior Fellow
Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy Nolan Bowie is Adjunct Lecturer in Public
Policy and a Senior Fellow of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press,
Politics and Public Policy. From 1986 to 1998 he was an Associate
Professor at Temple University, School of Communication and Theater.
His primary policy concerns are issues regarding equity and fairness in
the allocation of and access to information (literacy, education, and
knowledge) in all formats via digital and analog communication
technology. He is a former public interest lawyer who has been
teaching, writing, and advocating on behalf of underrepresented
constituencies for a period of more than 30 years...
Helaine
Daniels, Ed.D Advisor
Dr. Helaine Daniels was Director of the Master in Public Policy Program
at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (KSG)
until 2008, where she managed all student issues for a degree program
of more than 450 ethnically and culturally diverse students. Her
work began at the Kennedy School in 2001 as Director of International
Student Programs, after spending five years in West Africa. While in
Africa, Daniels served as technical advisor in competency and skills
development for the U.S. Department of State, Agency for International
Development in Mali; senior business analyst at Mobil Oil Africa/Middle
East in Côte d’Ivoire; and visiting scholar/managing director at the
Center for the Promotion of Industrial Society and Private Enterprise
in Nigeria.
Ronald
Ferguson Lecturer in Public
Policy, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
Ronald F. Ferguson is an economist and Senior Research Associate at the
Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy and has taught at Harvard since
1983. His teaching and publications cover a variety of issues related
to education and economic development. Much of his research since the
mid-1990s has focused on racial achievement gaps, appearing in
publications of the National Research Council, the Brookings
Institution, and the U.S. Department of Education, in addition to
various books and scholarly journals. He participates in a variety of
consulting and policy advisory activities, including work with school
districts on closing achievement gaps...
David
Gergen Professor of Public Service
and Director of the Center for Public Leadership
Editor of U.S. News and World Report
David R. Gergen is Public Service Professor of Public Leadership and
Director of the Center for Public Leadership. Over the past three
decades, he has served as a White House advisor to four presidents:
Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. In the
mid-1980s, he began a career in journalism, becoming editor of U.S.
News & World Report. He joined the Kennedy School faculty in
January 1999, while remaining editor at large for U.S. News and a
frequent television analyst. In the fall of 2000 he published a
best-seller, Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership, Nixon to
Clinton...
Kim
Williams Associate Professor of Public
Policy
Kim M. Williams teaches and conducts research on American racial
politics, social movements, and immigration policy at the John F.
Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Her first book,
Mark One or More: Civil Rights in Multiracial America (2006), explains
how a small group of activists spurred the recent restructuring of the
American racial classification system. The book argues that the new
system of racial counting is likely to reach deeply into the civil
rights agenda...
William
Julius Wilson Lewis P. and Lind Geyser
University Professor and Director of the Joblessness and Urban Poverty
Research Program
William Julius Wilson is Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University
Professor at Harvard University. He is one of only 19 University
Professors, the highest professional distinction for a Harvard faculty
member. After receiving the Ph.D. from Washington State University in
1966, Wilson taught sociology at the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst, before joining the University of Chicago faculty in 1972. In
1990 he was appointed the Lucy Flower University Professor and director
of the University of Chicago's Center for the Study of Urban
Inequality. He joined the faculty at Harvard in July of 1996...
