Witziggy World: Recent Episodes
Kyle Witzigman
I invite people to discuss the ampersand between policy design and policy delivery — yes, the ampersand. You know, where the idea in a backroom translates into life outside of an office, where best practices research meets the complexities of the everyday, where questions involve who gets to make decisions and with what resources and knowledge; the permutations of the ampersand abound, and I am here to reflect on them all. As always, the best part of this page is the conversation it spurs with you all. Contact me at kyle.witzigman@gmail.com. Look around at some past content and let me know whether there is any future content you would like to see me ruminate on! Cheers.
Leonardo Campos is a public policy analyst from Sao Paulo, Brazil. For the last ten years, he has worked on designing and implementing education and social development policies, being particularly interested in enhancing the effectiveness of social policy in reducing poverty and inequality. He has a BA in Public Policy Management from the University of Sao Paulo and a Master in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School.
Andrew Maguire wroteTeaching Between The Lines to learn more about educational opportunity in the United States. Maguire received his B.A. from Vanderbilt University and his Masters in Public Administration (MPA) from New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service, where he was recognized as a Lisa Ellen Goldberg Fellow.
As a youth development leader and non-profit strategist, Andrew has worked with youth worldwide, from his role helping launch Fulbright University Vietnam to his time spent working with organizations such as UNICEF USA and World Learning.
Andrew’s hope is to continue necessary dialogue around bringing equity and inclusion to America’s broken educational system. When not working or writing, Andrew loves to travel and is in constant pursuit of the world’s best bagel.
- Website: www.andrew-maguire.net
- Insta: @muchadoandrew
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-maguire-y2021/
Nathalie Gazzaneo is a graduate of Harvard Kennedy School with her Master in Public Policy and the University of Sao Paolo with her Masters of Law. She is currently a fellow for the Project on Workforce at Harvard.
Garret Johnson is a resident physician in internal medicine at Duke University Hospital. He is interested in U.S. health care policy, especially how payment policy affects the cost and quality of care. Garret was born and raised in Massachusetts, attended Brown University, Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He lives with his wife Lara, a psychiatry resident at Duke, and their beagle Tristan.
Mitsuru Mukaigawara is a Ph.D Student in Government at Harvard University. He studies international relations and political methodology, with a focus on an interaction between disease epidemics and international security. He is affiliated with the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. Prior to graduate school, he worked as an infectious disease doctor and a policy researcher. Mitsuru holds a M.D. from Tokyo Medical and Dental University and an M.P.P. from Harvard Kennedy School.
Hassaan Ebrahim is currently the Principal Associate at Education Resources Strategies. He holds a Master in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School, with a passion for education, social policy, and social impact. He is the co-founder and CEO of Hikma Health, a technology non-profit creating digital health systems for low-resource communities. Hassaan taught high school math for four years through Teach for America in his hometown of San Jose, CA. He has spent summers working at the U.S. Department of Education and the Office of the D.C. Mayor. Previously, he served as an Urban Leadership Fellow in Denver, CO and has interned for Senator Ed Markey in Boston, MA. Hassaan has a B.S. in neuroscience from the University of Southern California and lives in Cambridge, MA where he serves as a proctor in Harvard College.
Annie Kuster shares how gender studies and a Quechan professor led to her creation of Nayaraq Stories – a storytelling and feminisms empowerment workshop series that centers marginalized voices in the Peruvian Andes. This conversation asked the female question, centered margins, and recognized intersectionality and the uniqueness inherent in each lived experience.
Raven Graf, a graduate of Harvard Kennedy School and Swarthmore College, discusses our future and the environment. Raven aspires to advance strategic climate policy solutions to mitigate the crisis and its human impacts.
Raven has served on the board of Our Climate focusing on climate solutions and was a Climate Action Senior Fellow at Swarthmore's Office of Sustainability.
Georges Clement is a Co-Founder and the Executive Director of JustFix, a NYC-based nonprofit that builds data-driven tools for tenants and organizers fighting displacement. He was a Cheng Fellow and Kennedy Fellow studying housing and tech policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Previously, Georges was a Fellow with Blue Ridge Labs @ the Robin Hood Foundation and a Product Manager at General Assembly, leading the expansion of GA’s Business programs around the world. He is a New Yorker with a BA in Sociology and African Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has been selected as a Forbes 30 Under 30 in Law & Policy, World Economic Forum Global Shaper, and American Express Emerging Innovator.
This conversation explored the trajectory of housing in America, the policy landscape for housing approaches, and how JustFix.nyc is collaborating with the larger housing justice movement.
- You can connect with Georges on LinkedIn and Instagram.
- You can connect with JustFix.nyc via their website, Twitter, and Facebook.
Jess Redmond graduated from Harvard Kennedy School, focusing on the causes of inequality, the future of economic systems, and digital currencies. They are also a section leader for students of Ec10, Harvard's undergraduate introductory economics course. She has worked as a Research Assistant at the Harvard Kennedy School Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) on UK economic and trade policy.
Previously Jessica worked at the Bank of England as a financial regulation policy expert. This involved negotiating, evaluating and implementing European and Domestic legislation which promotes the resilience of the UK financial sector. Her areas of focus were in the regulation of large multinational and multi-sector financial groups, and structured finance products. They also participated in research on how firms manage central bank reserves and how these behaviours may evolve with the unwinding of QE.
Andrea Ringer is currently a Budget Analyst at the City of Detroit. She is a graduate of Harvard Kennedy School and the University of Notre Dame. In graduate school, Andrea advocated for the rights of the homeless and proper housing.