Harvard Political Review
Jack Silvers is an accomplished professional currently serving as the Director of Ideation at the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School since September 2021. In addition to this role, Jack is a member of the Forum Committee at the JFK Jr. Forum and acts as the Student Groups Liaison, facilitating study groups with IOP Resident Fellows. Jack's experience includes serving as the Deputy Director of Private Sector Policy for the Harvard Undergraduate Foreign Policy Initiative and working as a Policy Researcher and Senior United States Editor for the Harvard Political Review. Previous internships include a Research Intern position at The Brookings Institution and an Investigative Intern role at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. Jack co-founded AceIt, a tutoring and college advising service, and has held various roles in education, including a Partnerships Manager at Harvard Student Agencies. Additional experience includes journalism with The Borgen Project, alongside musical contributions as a Pianist/Organist at St. Bartholomew's Church. Jack is pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Social Studies at Harvard University, expected to graduate in 2025.
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.