Harvard Political Review
Alessandro Hammond serves as a Clinical Researcher at both Boston Children's Hospital and Whitehead Institute since October 2021. Hammond is also the Co-Founder and President of Ivy League Mentoring and has been involved as a Broad Affiliate at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard since June 2022. In addition, Hammond acts as a Medical Interpreter for the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program and contributes as a Staff Writer for both The Harvard Crimson and Harvard Political Review. Past roles include serving as an Emergency Department Volunteer at Massachusetts General Hospital and Captain of Harvard Club Tennis. As a Scientific Writer for A Healthier Democracy, Hammond combines extensive research and writing experience with studies at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology through cross-registration.
Harvard Political Review
The Harvard Political Review is America’s preeminent student journal of politics, policy, and culture. The HPR is written and published entirely by Harvard undergraduates and is housed at the Institute of Politics. The HPR was founded in 1969 by a group of Harvard College undergraduates. The founders envisioned a publication that allowed students to research, write, and edit incisive reportage and commentary in a thoughtful, non-partisan forum. To this day, the HPR does not take magazine-wide editorial positions. While individual articles have distinct viewpoints, the magazine as a whole does not represent any ideology or party. Over the past generation, the HPR has incubated some of the best political minds in America. Among the magazine’s alumni are Al Gore, Jr. (former Vice President and Nobel Laureate), E.J. Dionne, Jr. (Washington Post columnist), Jonathan Alter (former Newsweek Senior Editor and columnist), and Jeffrey Sachs (Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University). In recent years, HPR writers have won the National Press Club Award for Outstanding College Political Writing, and matriculated to staff positions with Politico, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Reuters, Al Jazeera, and elsewhere.