Operational opportunities in food redistribution
Food for Free is a non-profit partner that redistributes leftover food to places in need – or as their slogan puts it, they are “bridging the gap between waste and want”. As Food for Free expands its network, it is challenged by issues surrounding capacity and information flow. This team will focus on operational improvements that will enable Food for Free to meet its growing demand.
Mentors: Food for Free and Joel Goh (HBS)
21st Century Girlhood
Girlhood is an interesting and complicated period of life, and girls possess and develop important talents that are later shared with the world, through the workforce, as parents, and as community members. Focusing on the United States, what can we discover the aspirations and behaviors of girls as they are today? How is technology’s ubiquity in society affecting them and their family environment, and affecting the social and economic institutions that structure and influence their lives? Harvard undergraduates and community high school students will meet over the course of the semester to select and discuss a topic of relevance to 21st century girlhood and co-design their response to that issue. This project will be driven by the interests and ambitions of the girls themselves, including decisions about their responses/interventions. Potential outcomes may include media pieces, digital tools, school-based interventions, policy proposals, or art work.
Mentor: Kate Krontiris (Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society)
The Systemic Justice Project
The Systemic Justice project is a think tank at Harvard Law School devoted to identifying and fighting systemic injustice. For this work, students, in collaboration with lawyers, academics and activists, will write policy papers on the problems in our society (“problem papers”) and on the common causes of these problems (“problem causer papers”), such as the influence of money in politics, of advertising on our consumption, of corporations on our institutions, and of stereotypes and implicit associations on our decisionmaking. Students will develop a website, including ways to visualize the web of connections between our problems, problem causers and potential problem solvers, and also design tools for a network of experts and wider public to interact in collaborating on and discussing the project’s work. The work will also include designing ways to incorporate images and charts into the online versions of the papers. The rough existing website is at systemicjustice.wordpress.com . See also http://learning.law.harvard.edu/frontier…
Mentors: Jon Hanson & Jacob Lipton