Working in the service of others
Nearly 150 Harvard alumni shared their experience and expertise at the sixth annual Public Interested Conference at the Science Center last Saturday, serving as both inspiring role models and enthusiastic mentors to students and fellow alumni interested in exploring a career in public service. While alumni speakers represented a wide range of fields and organizations, from government to global health to social entrepreneurship, they struck a common chord in their advice to attendees: Your talents are needed, perhaps now more than ever. “There are critical opportunities to serve others and change the world by putting your public service passion to work. You have the choice — seize upon it,” said Maribel Hernández Rivera ’04, executive director of legal initiatives at the New York City Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs and leader of ActionNYC, a program that provides free immigration legal services in communities across the five boroughs. Hernández Rivera moderated the “Alumni Think...