Harvard alumni discuss pathways to public service
Doing well by doing good can be considered the highest purpose of higher education, and Travis Lovett wants to make sure Harvard students know it’s an option that’s open to everybody. “We see public service as the fulfillment of the civic purpose of higher education, and we want to highlight as many pathways as we can for students to engage in this work,” said Lovett, director of the Center for Public Interest Careers, and to that end he, the Harvard Alumni Association, and other University partners have planned the eighth annual Public Interested Conference this Saturday at the Science Center. With a program that includes a keynote address by City Year co-founder Michael Brown ’83, J.D. ’88; a session for alumni led by Archon Fung, Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government at Harvard Kennedy School; and panel discussions and TED-style talks featuring alumni who work in a variety of public service fields, the...