Josh Cortez graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School as an Ash Center fellow in May 2025. But his journey to the Kennedy ...

Jon is author of CITIZENS: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us, and co-founder of the New Citizen Project, a book and company committed to shifting the dominant story of the individual in ...

The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation develops ideas and fosters practices for equal and inclusive, multiracial and multiethnic democracy and self-government ...

I received my bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Faculty of Architecture at Vienna University of Technology, and completed my Ph.D. in 2018 at the Faculty of Architecture, Yıldız Technical ...

Terms of Engagement – ICE Expansion, Raids, Protests, and Democracy From rank-choice voting to reconciliation, American democracy is headline news. Let’s talk about it.

This essay was adopted from a presentation given by Riley Wong at the Second Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy held on the campus of Harvard Kennedy School in December 2023. Convened ...

Feature Jun 11, 2024 Our Top Spring 2024 Events This past semester, the Ash Center hosted discussions and debates on topics ranging from AI and democracy to the future of the Electoral College.

Feature Oct 23, 2024 Six Takeaways from the 2024 Truth and Transformation Conference Six seasoned speakers offered practical strategies for confronting the anti-DEI movement at the sixth annual ...

Commentary Oct 12, 2023 Who’s accountable for AI usage in digital campaign ads? Right now, no one. In a new essay, Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders argue that AI is poised to dramatically ramp up ...

Democracy movements are struggling to challenge autocratic governments, partly due to the changing technology landscape. This report by Erica Chenoweth summarizes a December 2024 workshop on the ...

Additional Resource Feb 2, 2024 Resonance, Not Scalability This essay was adopted from a presentation given by Nick Couldry at the Second Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy held on ...