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Featured Stories

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Yasmin Issari ’16

To know that Harvard is prioritizing the public service field, providing students with the financial and institutional support to grow and learn as they follow their ambitions to address society’s most pressing issues, is empowering.

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Sally Chen ’19

I had never known how gratifying it could be to see the tangible impact of public service work until I began volunteering with PBHA Chinatown Citizenship.

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Andrew Clark

Director of Choral Activities and Senior. Lecturer in Music

Implementing an Engaged Scholarship approach to teaching proved to be a profoundly fruitful and transformational experience, opening up new possibilities for inquiry and holistic learning.

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Student Work