Our first episode of 2021!We recorded this episode in the last weeks of 2020 - a year that revealed the best and the worst sides of our country. As we grappled with these 2 dualities, our team wanted to reflect on how we communicate moving

A look back at Super Tuesday: Harvard Kennedy School students discuss the 2020 primaries

Apr 1st, 2020 25m 47s

Before all the changes regarding the coronavirus pandemic, Super Tuesday reset the Democratic Primary. Fifteen states hold their primaries on this date, and the results always set the tone of the race moving forward. Listening to this episode n

The Iowa Caucus in Review: Where Should Technology Take Us From Here?

Mar 5th, 2020 24m 54s

Two of our Kennedy School Review Podcast Team members describe their experiences observing and supporting the Iowa Caucus, discussing what the process was like, what went wrong, and what the role of technology should be in facilitating a more i

S3E4: (Th)interventions for (Th)inspiration?: Policy Responses to the Rise of Pro-Anorexia Websites

Feb 13th, 2020 19m 54s

S3E4: (Th)interventions for (Th)inspiration?: Policy Responses to the Rise of Pro-Anorexia Websites by Kennedy School Review (KSR)

S3E3: - Why We Trek

Nov 19th, 2019 22m 53s

Every year dozens of students organise ‘treks’ to their home towns and countries. Entirely voluntary and student led, they plan activities to to initiate their fellow students in the culture, politics and history of the place. Samer Hjouj leads

S3E2 What We're Talking About When We're Talking About Affordable Housing

Oct 31st, 2019 26m 24s

What can two small cities in Maine and upstate New York teach us about the national housing crisis? Phoenix and Prachi take the lessons of their field lab course into economically disadvantaged neighborhoods and reflect on how they came to be t

Season 3 Premiere - Just Security? Why Immigrants are Blamed for Right Wing Attacks Against Them

Oct 16th, 2019 24m 54s

Conversations around immigration in Europe and America are reaching a new victim-blaming low. The KSR Podcast team sits down for a chat with law and policy student Niku Jafarnia to discuss why this is happening and what can be done to change th

S2E6: Equity in Pedagogy and Curriculum at HKS

Jul 19th, 2019 36m 38s

Teaching doesn't stop mattering in graduate school; in this second episode focusing on Equity at the Harvard Kennedy School, the podcast team explores dynamics of diversity and identity within HKS classrooms from the perspectives of students an

S2E5 - Health Policy: A View From The Inside feat. Dr. Alice Chen and Dr. Vivek Murthy

May 1st, 2019 19m 26s

On this episode, Nusheen Ameenuddin sits down with Drs. Chen and Murthy to discuss how health policy has evolved since the Obama administration. Professional physician organizations, namely the AMA, have played a prominent role in opposing atte

S2E4 - Equity in Hiring at HKS feat. Students and Faculty

Apr 29th, 2019 27m 41s

In the fourth episode of Season 2, the KSR podcast team examines issues of equity, identity, and diversity within the faculty hiring process at the Harvard Kennedy School. The 2018 HKS Diversity Report quantified the school’s persistent demog

S2E3 - Social Media and Election Integrity feat. Mo Safdari

Apr 24th, 2019 29m 39s

In the third episode of Season 2, the KSR podcast team sits down with Mo Safdari, a former Facebook staffer in charge of election integrity. This wide-ranging interview covers everything from Facebook’s values, to its content moderation, to the

S2E2 - Midterm Election Wrap feat. Robbie Lauf, Karim Farishta, and Blake Alexander

Nov 28th, 2018 33m 39s

The new KSR podcast team takes on the 2018 midterm elections, covering key conservative and liberal sentiments from before, during, and after Election Tuesday.This episode is jam-packed with interviews covering everything from candidate-camp

Season 2 Premiere - Innovation in Government feat. Erica Pincus and Nick Sinai

Oct 5th, 2018 29m 12s

The KSR Podcast is back! To kick off this season, two veterans of the Obama White House sit down to talk about what "innovation in government" really means. Plus, we get to hear the Joe Biden pool party story. Erica Pincus is a Master in Publ

S1E7 - Do We Understand "Fake News?" Feat. Claire Wardle, Dipayan Ghosh, and Howard Cohen

May 28th, 2018 48m 43s

In this episode, managing editor Matt McDole sits down with Shorenstein Center fellows Dipayan Ghosh and Claire Wardle, and entrepreneur Howard Cohen, to discuss fake news. Ghosh is a computer scientist who has worked in the tech industry as a

S1E6- Shifting social attitudes on gender-based violence in India feat. Gulika Reddy

May 6th, 2018 26m 59s

The Kennedy School Review’s Podcast explores the vast range of talents and experiences that HKS students and faculty bring to our community. We highlight student voices and bring students and faculty together to discuss the work they do.In th

S1E5 - Print Journal - Incarceration

Apr 16th, 2018 40m 50s

In this episode, we interview three authors from our print journal who have written about incarceration in the United States. Catia Sharp has written about the links between mental illness and incarceration, Max Wynn has studied the immigrant p

S1E4 - The March For Our Lives and Intersectional Youth Organizing

Apr 2nd, 2018 39m 58s

In this episode, first-year Masters in Public Policy student Amanda Matos has a candid conversation with Professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad about the March For Our Lives movement, the tension between the question of gun violence in communities of

S1E3 - The Story of Helem: LGBTQ Rights in the Middle East Feat. Tarek Zeidan

Mar 11th, 2018 32m 30s

Join Anna Mysliwiec as she interviews Masters in Public Administration student Tarek Zeidan, chairperson of Helem, the first LGBTQ Rights organization in the Middle East. Tarek discusses growing up gay in Lebanon, his process of coming out, and

S1E2 - Journalists Behind Bars: Fighting for Human Rights in Turkey Feat. Tobias Garnett

Mar 5th, 2018 20m 10s

Deepra Yusuf interviews Kennedy School student and lawyer Tobias Garnett. In 2017 Garnett received the Human Rights Lawyer of the Year award from the Law Society of England and Wales for his work defending jailed journalists in Turkey.

Podcast Premiere - Miracle in Michigan: the Bernie Sanders Campaign, Feat. Conor Hand

Feb 18th, 2018 29m 40s

Conor Hand, who was Director of Field Operations for Senator Bernie Sanders' primary campaign in Michigan, joins the Kennedy School Review to discuss life on the campaign trail and what became possibly the greatest primary upset in US history.

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