Public Interested is a campus-wide program organized by the Center for Public Service and Engaged Scholarship and collaboratively planned by the Harvard Alumni Association, Advanced Leadership Initiative, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard Global Health Institute, Harvard Innovation Labs, Institute of Politics, Mignone Center for Career Success, Office for the Arts, Office for Sustainability, Phillips Brooks House Association, Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, and the Social Innovation and Change Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School. This program offers several outstanding ways for students and alums to explore public interest careers, make connections, and discuss social issues. Public Interested will take place on Saturday, February 1, 2025 at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Breakout networking discussions include: advising on public interest careers, education, environmental justice, immigration reform, political engagement and advocacy, public and global health, public interest law and criminal justice reform, and safety nets: housing access and food security.
Speaker Information
Sharrelle Barber SD '14 Director of the Ubuntu Center at Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health
The Ubuntu Center's mission is to unite diverse partners to generate and translate evidence, accelerate antiracism solutions, and transform the health of communities locally, nationally, and globally.
Jerren Chang MBA '21, MPP '21, President and CEO, Partners in Democracy
Partners In Democracy is a powerhouse organization working to drive democracy renovation nationally by working at the state level, state-by-state.
Marion Dry AB '73, Chair and Co-Founder of ClassACT HR73
Harvard Alumni for Climate and the Environment Shared Interest Group (HACE) is a volunteer-led global community of alumni who know that together we can help make a difference in addressing the climate crisis.
Jahnavi Raos ALM '00, ALM '01, MPA '24, Co-President, Harvard Alumni for Climate and the Environment
New Voters is a youth-led national nonprofit in over 500 high schools across the country through nonpartisan near-peer mentorship to make their voices heard in politics.
Rob Watson AB '09, EdM '18, MPA '21, Executive Director, EdRedesign Lab at HGSE; Lecturer on Education, HGSE
The EdRedesign Lab provides catalytic support to the cradle-to-career place-based partnership field to drive systems-level change and open personalized pathways to opportunity.
