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Political Engagement

PEP Fellow Caroline Avery's Civic Engagement Guide for Youth

December 23, 2021

Caroline Avery, PPS ’22, is looking to create a new generation of civic leaders through her PEP Fellows project. The PEP Fellows program, an undergraduate experience offered through the Hart Leadership Program and Polis, provides students with resources to explore democracy in depth. This past year, students in the PEP Fellows program took on the…

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The Person Behind the Stories: Celebrating Program Assistant Thalia Halloran’s time with the Hart Leadership Program

December 15, 2021

If you’ve read one of the Hart Leadership Program’s (HLP) news stories the past two years, then you’re probably already familiar with Thalia Halloran! Thalia (T’22) has been work for the HLP as a program assistant since fall of 2019. Since this is her last semester with us, the HLP team wanted to share just…

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Service Opportunities in Leadership

Former SOL Fellow Jessie Xu awarded Schwarzman Scholarship

December 6, 2021

Jessie Xu (SOL '20/PPS '22) has been named a Schwarzman Scholar. The Schwarzman Scholarship is a fully-funded, one-year master's degree and leadership program at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China that helps scholars respond to the geopolitical landscape of the 21st century. Jessie, a public policy major, hails from West Hartford Conneticut. On campus, she helped…

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