DEVELOPMENT & ECONOMIC GROWTH
Amid a nation-building renaissance, HKS redoubles its commitment to supporting Indigenous communities
Harvard Kennedy School has received over $15 million in gifts that will support a major expansion of the work of the HKS Project on Indigenous Governance and Development at the School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. The gifts will fund a new professorship, programming initiatives, and a senior fellowship, all focused on enhancing the project’s role in practical research, teaching, leadership development, and policy analysis with Native communities. The project, previously known as the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, has long demonstrated that Native nations prosper under self-governance, and with this new support is expanding its work to meet the growing needs of tribal nations. It was founded in 1987 by HKS Professor Emeritus Joseph Kalt and Professor Stephen Cornell (now at the University of Arizona) to explore how some tribes successfully strengthened their economies, cultures, and governance, where others had fallen short. |