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 a Masters in Public Policy candidate at Harvard Kennedy School, with an interest in education and social urban policy. He was born and raised in San Jose, CA and graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in neuroscience. After graduation, he joined Teach for America and returned home to San Jose where he taught high school math for four years. In addition to teaching pre-calc, he served as DJ for the school dances, as DJ e-Triggy. In addition to policy, he's interested in digital innovation, especially in health and education. He enjoys photography, travel, and listening to tropical house music.

Andrew Maguire wrote Teaching Between The Lines to learn more about educational opportunity in the United States. Andrew 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.

You can find out more about Andrew and his work at the following:

• Website: www.andrew-maguire.net
• Insta: @muchadoandrew
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-maguire-y2021/

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.

Andrea Ringer is a social and urban policy specialist at Harvard Kennedy School with experience in budgeting, finance, and planning for the cities of Rochester, New York and Detroit, Michigan. This past spring, she advocated for people experiencing homelessness as part of a civic campaign in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and will complete her Masters in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School this fall.

 This conversation centered on housing advocacy, reform, and the causes and consequences of our current housing puzzle.

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.

Nathalie Gazzaneo, an attorney with interests in tech and public policy as well as political and economic development, sees barriers and challenges as clues to build a better future. She previously worked in public policy and privacy and has researched emerging technology's capacity for public impact. As part of the Problem Driven Iterative Action (PDIA) field class at Harvard Kennedy School, she and her team explored the root causes of abandoned infrastructure projects in Nigeria.

This conversation assessed methodologies to break down large, complex infrastructure development projects - which includes housing - to begin to understand how we move forward on problems that require huge financial and operational capital.

Raven Graf (they/them) is an activist, volunteer for the Citizens’ Climate Lobby, board member of Our Climate, and recipient of the Switzer Fellowship. They graduated from Swarthmore College with degrees in biology and chemistry and received a Master in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

In this conversation, they describe our current climate challenges and advocate for climate legislation to change the world’s current climate trajectory.

FURTHER READING

• Bill Moyer, Doing Democracy: The MAP Model for Social Organizing

Jess Redmond is an ecomonist and philosopher with experience at the Bank of England and a fellow with Year Here, which provides a full-time postgraduate course in London designed to cultivate entrepreneurial approaches to entrenched social problems. They received their undergraduate degree in philosophy, politics, and economics from Durham University in England and are pursuing a Master in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

They share their personal journey to vegetarianism and veganism, ways in which we can all be more intentional about what ends up on our dinner plates, and how we can make veganism accessible to people across the socio-economic spectrum.

FURTHER READING:

• Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals