Harvard Kennedy School: Ask What You Can Do

Meet Professor of Public Policy Amitabh Chandra and hear from his students at Harvard Kennedy School. Film by Steve Atlas. Learn more about graduate studies at Harvard Kennedy School here:

Kalpana Jain mid-career MPA 2011 works with the Kennedy School's SLATE Initiative to create a case study out of the story of an unlikely leader half a world away.

"Let the Word Go Forth" is a film of many faces and voices recreating President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address. Contributors (in order of appearance) John Lewis Mary Jo Bane Marian Wright Edelman James Carroll Dennis Archer Gwen Ifill David Ellwood Colin Powell Douglas Barrios John Haigh Dan Bidois Tamecca Tillard Fareed Zakaria Emily Janoch Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Joe Curtatone Hannah Peaker Ricardon Hausman Nicole Paulet Piedra Graham Allison Robert Stavins Ban Ki-moon Jane Mansbridge Bryna Lipper David Gergen Pukar Malla Christiane Amanpour Andrew Sieg John Timoney Amy Lin Archon Fung Iris Bohnet Damian Woetzel Lindsay Hodges Anderson Giovanna Negretti Mark O'Connor Stephen Breyer John Culver Jeb Bush Jeanne Shaheen David Rubenstein Gordon Brown Rohini Pande E.J. Dionne Jr. Jerry Carter Michele Pierre-Louis Peter Gomes

Student Allister Chang introduces IdeasBox to his HKS classmates. IdeasBox is a "portable multi-media toolkit designed for refugees to discover, learn, connect, and create.” Learn more here:

Harvard Kennedy School students team up with the mayor and the municipal staff of the city of Somerville to help transform a troubled urban landscape into one of the most livable cities in the Commonwealth. Featuring Mayor Joe Curtatone MC-MPA 2011, Senior Lecturer Linda Bilmes, and cast of thousands -- HKS students, city of Somerville staff, and the diverse and wonderful residents of Somerville. Find out more: Produced and directed by Matt Cadwallader; Music by Leo Langinger.