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Danielle Allen, the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University and director of Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, is a political theorist whose work focuses on democratic theory, political sociology and the history of political thought. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity from the Library of Congress and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. Her book Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality was awarded the Heartland Prize, the Zócalo Book Prize, and the Society of American Historians’ Francis Parkman Prize.
Former State Sen. Ben Downing launches campaign for Massachusetts governor, says leadership to tackle state’s big challenges is ‘sorely lacking’
Updated Feb 08, 2021;
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Former State Sen. Ben Downing, who opted not to seek reelection in 2016 and has worked in the solar energy industry in the years since, announced Monday he is running to become the Bay State’s next governor, seeking to address the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, racial inequality and climate change.
Downing, a Pittsfield native who now lives in East Boston, was elected to the state Senate in 2006 at age 24. The Democrat represented Western Massachusetts in the Legislature for 10 years before stepping down to take an executive leadership role at Nexamp, a renewable energy company.
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January 12, 2021
The UCLA Division of Humanities has partnered with the Los Angeles–based Berggruen Institute to launch “Possible Worlds,” a new lecture series that invites some of today’s most imaginative intellectual leaders and creators to deliver talks on the future of humanity.
The series will kick off Feb. 18, 2021, with a lecture by Harvard classicist and political theorist
Danielle Allen, followed by presentations by architect
Alejandro Aravena (spring 2021), author
Kim Stanley Robinson (fall 2021), and innovation and sustainability expert
Darja Isaksson (spring 2022). The cross-disciplinary lectures will highlight innovative ideas and offer unique insights about our transforming world.
The first collaborative project between UCLA and the Berggruen Institute, “Possible Worlds” furthers both institutions’ goal of fostering a culture of innovation in philosophy and governance, both in Southern California and throughout the world.
Danielle Allen, leader at Harvard, exploring run for governor of Massachusetts
By Matt Stout Globe Staff,Updated December 14, 2020, 7:41 p.m.
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Danielle Allen, a leader at Harvard, is exploring a run for governor.
Danielle Allen, a Harvard University professor, political philosopher, and author, said Monday she is laying the groundwork for a potential run for governor in 2022, making her the first Democrat to publicly say theyâre weighing a campaign.
Allen, 49, said she plans to take at least three months to hold a virtual âlistening tourâ to introduce herself to party activists and voters ahead of what could be a crowded, and fluid, race in two years.
Harvard professor Danielle Allen weighing run for Massachusetts governor
Updated Dec 15, 2020;
Danielle Allen, a political theorist at Harvard University, announced Monday she is exploring a campaign for governor.
She tweeted a campaign video, which opened with her reciting a quote by Toni Morrison: “If you’re free, you free others. If you have power, you empower others.”
The words, Allen said, “embody the soul” of her family. After graduating high school, Allen went on to earn degrees from Princeton University and a Ph.D from University of Cambridge before enrolling in a Ph.D program in government at Harvard.
Her final degree, Allen said, achieved a goal set by her grandmother: “a self-taught community nurse in the segregated South” who wished to see a grandchild go to college in Massachusetts, the first state in the nation to end enslavement.