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...mastermind behind “Conversations with Kirkland,” is perhaps the only individual on Harvard’s campus lucky enough to meet Rosanne Cash at the Albuquerque airport, bump into Lewis Black on a train to Washington, chat up Sam Waterston at an event in New York, and convince the President of Zambia to take a Boston Duck Tour. For the past seven years, Emerson has combined similarly serendipitous celebrity encounters with his natural charm and brought a wide array of interesting and diverse speakers to the Harvard community...
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...
...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 the House Masters of Kirkland and convinced them that his connections could be useful...
Since its inception, UCHRS sought to integrate human rights activities into the “Harvard mainstream,” according to current UCHRS director Jacqueline Bhabha, who will assume the post of University Advisor on Human Rights Education on the new directorate...
...addition to its mission of University-wide collaboration, the UCHRS offers a variety of research grants and runs Scholars at Risk, a fellowship program that invites scholars who are at risk of persecution in their native countries to Harvard. The new directorate will assume control of the program...