WAPPP and Students

WAPPP Sponsored Summer Internships

Congratulations 2008 internship recipients!
To read their blogs:

WAPPP offers Roy Family Internships to fund summer internships for Kennedy School students. Roy interns focus on a topic or issue that relates to women and public policy or work with a high level woman acting as a mentor or role model.

WAPPP also offers Nancy Germeshausen Klavans Cultural Bridge Fellowships. There are ten fellowships available. Fellows work with women peace builders on a specified project--designed with the peace builder--which keep with the student's level of academic and real world training.

Class Day Awards and Prizes 2008

WAPPP award three prizes on Class Day:

All nominations are Tuesday, May 20th by 5pm to Kerry Conley. For more information, click here

2007 Award Winners

Congratulations to Dianne Munevar, 2007 recipient of the Holly Taylor Sargent Prize for Women's Advancement. The award is presented annually to a member of the Kennedy School community (faculty, staff, or student) who has done the most to advance the opportunities, situation, and status of women within the Kennedy School.

Congratuations to Sarah-Catherine Phillips, 2007 recipient of the Barbara Jordan Award for Women's Leadership. This award recognizes the outstanding student leadership of a graduating woman student with an emphasis on the following criteria: commitment to building community at the KSG; furthering issues of public importance outside the KSG; serving as a role model for women aspiring to leadership; and displaying the excellence in academic achievement and community service that Barbara Jordan embodied as a public servant.

Congratulations to Fiona Greig, 2007 recipient of the Jane Mansbridge Research Award. Each year the Women and Public Policy Program honors a student for the best research paper with an analysis of an organization or topic related to gender and public policy. Fiona's paper was titled, "Propensity to Negotiate and Career Advancement in an Investment Bank: Evidence that Women are on a ‘Slow Elevator.’"

Working closely with faculty, staff, and students, including the umbrella organization for women student groups SAGE, WAPPP sponsors activities to create an environment where Kennedy School women not only survive, but thrive. Such events include one to one student support; welcome/orientation events for young women students, fellows, mid-career students and new women faculty; and other gatherings for women faculty, staff, and students at the home of WAPPP Director Swanee Hunt. Mentoring relationships are nurtured between women Kennedy School students and professional women from the Women's Leadership Board and distinguished fellows and visitors. All WAPPP events, including conferences, seminars, "brown bags" and Forums, are designed to provide maximum student exposure to women as policy makers.