Events

  • Diversity in Development: Rethinking Approaches to Development

    NYE ABC, 5th floor of the Taubman building at the Harvard Kennedy School.
    • Diversity in Development
    • Growth Lab

    This event kicks off a series of events on "Diversity in Development." The goal of this series is to better understand issues underlying discrimination and exclusion within the field of international development and identify collective steps that we can take to expand diversity in practice. This first session will discuss key facets of the problem and […]

  • Diversity in Development: Alternative Visions of “Development”

    Zoom (registration information below)
    • Diversity in Development
    • Growth Lab

    The first session of this Diversity in Development series discussed facts of the problem of limited diversity in the field of international development and introduced frameworks for understanding the problem. In this second session, panelists will discuss goals of “development” and the extent to which a vision of development is shared, including aspects of self-determination, […]

  • Alumni Panel: Experiencing & Undoing Discrimination in Development

    Hybrid: WEX W-G02, Zoom
    • Diversity in Development
    • Growth Lab

    The work of development is to improve quality of life and expand economic opportunity across diverse global communities, and graduate programs such as the MPA/ID program at HKS are enormously diverse in national origin, gender, and professional and lived experience. Yet, a 2020 survey of MPA/ID alumni revealed that roughly half of all respondents have […]

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