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...intimate and informal setting that Emerson’s “Conversations with Kirkland” seeks to maintain distinguishes the events from many similar Harvard happenings. “Students get more engaged. They feel like they have some kind of impact on the event, rather than just listening to someone talking to them,” explains Loren Amor ’10, a former Crimson sports chair who became involved with the series during his sophomore year. “They are able to steer the discussion in a way that is interesting to them...
Hardball’s Chris J. Matthews, a close friend of Emerson’s, agrees that the value in speaking with Harvard students is especially apparent within the context of Emerson’s “Coversations with Kirkland...
Emerson, initially a college dropout, received his bachelor’s degree from New York University in 1995 after attending night classes. He came to Harvard in 1999, working as a teaching fellow for world-renowned child psychologist Robert Coles before entering the Kennedy School of Government. During his time at the Kennedy School, Emerson’s passion for developing policy ideas precipitated a realization...
...first projects to strike gold was the creation of a college environment in which seeking help for addiction problems was transformed into a positive and incentivized experience. Emerson took his idea to Howard J. Shaffer, the director of the Division on Addictions at the Harvard Medical School, who chose him as the division’s associate for public policy. With this new job in hand, Emerson decided to stay in Cambridge. Yet beyond Cambridge itself, Emerson had fallen in love with the Harvard atmosphere. So,instead of moving into an apartment or house off-campus, he spoke with...
...that point, Emerson recalls, he took time to reflect on how he could give back to the Harvard community...