Harvard Kennedy School puts academics into action
Students get real-world experience through experiential field labs.
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When proposing redevelopment ideas for an abandoned 95-acre city parcel, seeing is believing.
HKS students make the case to create a public transportation hub on reclaimed land in Everett, Massachusetts, using virtual reality
Students put scholarship and policy expertise at the service of advocacy as they help seek justice in modern-day lynchings.
Professor Cornell William Brooks sends students to Mississippi to assist the JULIAN civil rights group and experience justice in real time.
Laying the foundation for the next generation of civic leaders
Assistant Professor of Public Policy Justin de Benedictis-Kessner hits the road with an inaugural field lab in urban politics.
HKS Transition Term students assist Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval following his historic election
The Taubman Center’s transition program helped the mayor make the move into office (and the Bengals into the Super Bowl).
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