The Taubman Center for State and Local Government works to support current and future public sector leaders to improve the governance of states, counties, cities, and towns, through research, teaching, programs, and convenings.
Our Mission
- Develop the next generation of state and local government leaders
- Generate big ideas and solutions to state and local government challenges
- Help state and local government implement and scale solutions
We deliver on our mission through research, teaching, student programming, practitioner support, and hosting convenings.
The Taubman Center focuses on urban and rural policy design and implementation, including economic development, transportation, housing, education, public infrastructure, land use, social services, public sector technology and data utilization, procurement, and performance management.
Who We Serve
Students
We provide opportunities to engage with state and local government leaders and issues by hosting seminars and events, experiential learning opportunities, practice-oriented degree program courses, executive education programs, summer fellowships with government agencies in the Boston area and throughout the country, and career mentoring and connections to jobs in state and local government.
Alumni
We engage and support alumni with state and local government experience well beyond their time at Harvard Kennedy School, including having them as guest speakers to share their expertise, matching them with the talents of current and graduating students, and serving them as trusted advisors and connectors for their own career pursuits.
Faculty and Researchers
We provide connections and incentives to help tenured and junior faculty at HKS to produce the highest-quality research that can be applied to solve state and local government challenges. We maintain the Center as an intellectual community where faculty, fellows, students, and staff can productively collaborate to stimulate, support, and critique each other's urban and rural policy research and teaching. We also develop and implement major, multi-year research initiatives that engage groups of faculty, not only single individuals, interested in exploring key state and local government issues.
Practitioners in Public Policy
We support and learn from the work of practitioners on the front lines of state and local government by engaging them with our research, students, and peer learning opportunities. This includes helping them to tackle state and local government challenges and accelerate their priorities by connecting them with the talents of HKS faculty, students and alumni through research, summer and full-time roles, and with peer learning through the convening of communities of practice at HKS.
Contact Us
Taubman Center for State and Local Government
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617-495-2199
For general questions please contact us at taubman@hks.harvard.edu.
Subscribe
Sign up for emails to receive regular updates on our research, events, and programs, all focused on generating big ideas and solutions to state and local government challenges.