Public Service

Harvard alumni across the country have mobilized to help tackle issues worsened by the COVID-19 crisis, including domestic violence, clinical trial recruitment, and food insecurity.

More than 100 incoming first-year students spent a month implementing public service projects in their hometowns through Harvard College's SPARK program.

Alumni Jose Cerda III AB '88, Koma Gandy Fischbein AB '95, and Theresa Reno-Weber MPP '08 reflect on their paths to public service and offer advice to the Class of 2020.

As University facilities have shut down, faculty and staff have gathered essential supplies for health care workers.

How a Harvard graduate student survived getting stuck in a blizzard and became a better engineer because of it.

Kate Swain Smith AB '19 is the fourth Harvard Presidential City of Boston Fellow. A collaboration between Harvard and the City of Boston, the fellowship is designed to foster interest in, and create a pipeline to, civic-oriented careers.

Harvard Club of Seattle program brings ninth-graders to campus for a crash course in what it's like

The former U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant shares why supporting Louisville is important to her and the impact Metro United Way is making for families in her community.

Jackie Lender AB ’16, JD ’22, MBA ’22 discusses her path from Harvard to Boston City Hall and back again, and encourages others to rethink what it means to work in local government.

Sinead Walsh AB '00 reflects on her experiences as the Irish ambassador to Sierra Leone and Liberia during the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.