The Writing Life
by Karim Bardeesy on March 11, 2009 in Features
• Getting a platform but losing the cash post-HKS.
Few people attend a school of government only to leave government, but that’s been my post-Kennedy School path.
I’m now at The Big Money, Slate’s new business website. We launched on September 15, the same day that financial ruin befell Lehman Brothers (with other financial concerns and soon the entire economy to follow). In professional rank, it’s a retreat of sorts: once a political staffer to a powerful finance minister in Canada, I am now an editorial assistant, the most junior member of a four person editorial team. The work makes it up for it though – I’ve got a front seat at the biggest economic story of our time, I work with a fun bunch dedicated to making the site bigger and better, and I get to say I work at Slate, a publication of which I was a huge fan for years. Read more
Marshall Ganz: Lighting a Fire
by Karim Bardeesy on February 12, 2008 in Features
Kennedy School students who want to learn from sociologist and activist Marshall Ganz get a flavor of Barack Obama pretty early on. On the first day of his “Public Narrative” class, Ganz shows a video of Obama’s 2004 Democratic Convention speech, pointing out how Obama’s story of his parents’ “improbable love” sets the stage for an inspiring call to action. (He’s not politicizing the classroom - students see Ronald Reagan later in the semester.)
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