ALI has launched its Social Impact Review! The Review is an online journal with the aim to provide thought leadership on social impact. By bringing together diverse stakeholders, the Review hopes to raise awareness, influence action, and catalyze positive change in addressing the world's significant social challenges. Visit the SIR site!
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The Shorenstein Center announced the launch of the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability project. Led by HKS Professor Khalil Muhammad, the goal of the initiative is to use research and policy to promote antiracism as a core value and institutional norm. Get involved!
Harvard is teaming with the National Voter Education Week Project to start the Harvard Votes Challenge. The five-day event breaks down the process into a different focus daily: on the history and importance of voting, the mechanics of casting a ballot by mail or in person, making a plan to vote, and getting to the bottom of the initiatives. Get involved!
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Linda Dakin-Grimm (2020) has authored a book titled "Dignity and Justice: Welcoming the Stranger at our Border." Through stories of real children and families, Ms. Dakin-Grimm explores the issue of migration to the southern border of the United States and its historical, social, legal and political dynamics.
Lisa Macpherson (2019) is shining a light on the way technology is impacting democracy. In a roundup for the Knight Foundation, Ms. Macpherson explains how the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and structural racism highlight the need to re-answer a fundamental question about the role of technology in our lives.
Peggy Koenig (2018) is shining a light on the stories of DREAMers. Ms. Koenig is developing a musical based on Prof. Roberto Gonzales' (HGSE) book, "Lives in Limbo," with its first song, "Everyday" featured on Viva Broadway on October 1.
Bruce Shaw (2018) will be serving as the founding executive director for a new center at Georgetown Law School, The Denny Center for Democratic Capitalism. The center's mission is to reconcile the benefits of free market capitalism with the values and expectations of a democratic society.
Shep Moyle (2017) has founded "Chasing the Cure," an initiative to speed cures to the patient and the bedside with breakthrough collaborations. The first project will focus on pediatric brain cancer research across big data and AI, and include both pre-clinical and clinical trials involving eight leading universities worldwide.
Bernadette Paolo (2016) is taking a stand against the disposal of electronic waste in West Africa. Together with Dr. Peter I. Osuji, Professor of Healthcare Ethics from Duquesne University, Ms. Paolo authored an article highlighting the environmental and health hazards of e-waste in Ghana, and laid out a path for a sustainable and ethical future.
Eduardo Elejalde (2015) is sharing the latest updates on research conducted by his Natalia Mental Health Foundation. In their latest newsletter, the organization highlights its Integrated Placement and Support employment program and the work of Dr. Asha Bhakar of MIT.
Jeff Dunn (2014) says the census must count all children for their health and well-being. In an article for NBC's THINK, Mr. Dunn makes the case that the census count cannot end prematurely.
Nina Lahoud (2013) continues her efforts to promote gender justice and to accelerate implementation of commitments made for the inclusion of women as equal partners in all UN peace support operations and peace processes. As the 20th anniversary of the UN Security Council's landmark resolution 1325 (2000) on Women, Peace and Security approaches, and the Council's nine successor resolutions on this topic have not been fully implemented, she has written an article on "What Fueled the Far-Reaching Impact of the Windhoek Declaration and Namibia Plan of Action as a Milestone for Gender Mainstreaming in UN Peace Support Operations and Where Is Implementation 20 Years Later" in the Journal of International Peacekeeping.
Joe Mandato (2012) is sharing lessons from his experiences working with startups. In a new book, Mr. Mandato and his co-authors explore "The Entrepreneur's Journey" by telling the stories of 17 different companies they have worked with across their careers.
Iyabo Obasanjo (2012) says the best way to fight COVID-19 in Africa is to improve health systems in general. In a recent article, Ms. Obasanjo argues that Africa's population has a relatively low rate of underlying health conditions, so the continent's best weapon in fighting COVID-19 is a systems-based approach.
Jamie Kaplan (2009) continues to advance the work of the Cromwell Center for Disabilities Awareness. During the 2019-20 academic year, the center presented its innovative disabilities awareness curriculum to nearly 200,000 elementary school students in approximately 250 schools, all free of charge.
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The 2020 Cohort, pictured here, spearheaded the creation of ALI's Social Impact Review.
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ALI Faculty Board Member Andrew Crespo (HLS) is offering perspective on how the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg could change alliances on the Supreme Court. In an article for Bloomberg Law, Prof. Crespo explains how the liberal minority may need to rethink working with the conservative justices.
ALI Faculty Executive Committee Member Howard Koh (SPH/HKS) says public health, not political partisanship, must take the lead in the COVID-19 vaccination process. Dr. Koh authored an op-ed in the Boston Globe, arguing that lack of trust and confidence in a coronavirus vaccination will result in immeasurable human suffering.
ALI Founding Chair & Director Rosabeth Moss Kanter (HBS) says rethinking how things are done in the past can lead to solutions today. In an interview with Shanghai Daily, Prof. Kanter talks about the importance of advanced leadership in times of crisis, more diversity at the executive level, and the need to reinvent institutions.
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