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Timothy Patrick McCarthy is Lecturer on History and Literature, Adjunct Lecturer on Public Policy, and Director of the Sexuality, Gender & Human Rights Program at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He also teaches in the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. An historian of social movements, Dr. McCarthy graduated with honors from Harvard College and received his Ph.D. in History from Columbia University, where he completed his dissertation under the direction of Eric Foner. Dr. McCarthy’s research agenda focuses on the relationship between human rights and social movements in three main areas: race relations and civil rights; LGBT politics, policy, and advocacy; and modern slavery and human trafficking. For more information on Dr. McCarthy, please visit the Director's page of this web site.
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Helena Pylväinen is an MPP candidate working to advance justice and equality for all people through her work in education policy and human rights. She currently serves as President of the LGBTQ Caucus, Editor of the LGBTQ Policy Journal, and Research Assistant at the Carr Center. Before coming to the Kennedy School, she conducted research to evaluate programs that seek to encourage underrepresented female and minority students in science, technology, engineering and math. In the summer of 2012, Helena was an Education Pioneer Fellow at the New York City Department of Education, evaluating a Summer Learning Loss Prevention Pilot designed to reduce achievement gaps between low and high-income students.
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helena_pylvainen@hks13.harvard.edu |
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617.496.4548 |
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