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  • Online
    Session Date
    -
    Application Deadline
    Program Fee
    $4,900
    Faculty Chair
    Zoe Marks
    Teddy Svoronos
    Program Director
    James Brockman
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    Executive Certificate: This program is a core program in the Nonprofit Leadership and Public Policy concentrations. This program can also be used as a third program for any concentration in the Executive Certificate series.

Program Overview

Societies that are more diverse and equitable have the potential to be the most innovative, peaceful, and prosperous in the world, where all members can thrive. The best leaders understand how social inequalities manifest and the evidence-based approaches for understanding and addressing them. However, leaders often struggle to ensure the data they’re analyzing represents a broad spectrum of perspectives and experiences.

Evidence for Equity, an online executive program created by Harvard faculty co-chairs Zoe Marks and Teddy Svoronos, enables you to engage in data-driven, evidence-based policymaking through an equity lens. Using the growing amount of data concerning inequities exacerbated by standard practices, Evidence for Equity helps you develop the skills necessary to discern the data and evidence available and apply these skills to your personal projects.

Program Curriculum

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Evidence for Equity offers frameworks and tools for maximizing data’s potential to advance social equity and achieve more robust and inclusive well-being for all. Through a mix of live, engaging faculty-led lectures, groupwork, and individual reflection, you will learn how to measure social diversity and the differential impacts of policies on various segments of society to improve outcomes. As a member of a global cohort, you will gain the skills needed for diagnosing and analyzing inequalities, as well as tackling and transforming them to achieve more inclusive and effective policymaking. 

Learning Objectives

Evidence for Equity provides participants with a toolkit for measuring and understanding social inequalities, and evidence-based approaches for addressing them, including:

  • An analytic and applied approach to understanding complex inequities
  • Ways to reimagine available data and deploy mixed methods to make immediate progress on measuring and achieving impact
  • Strengthened data collection methods and evaluation strategies for the long term
  • Approaches to bring to light the experiences of groups that are often underrepresented in data collection efforts, or tend to be studied separately and apart from broader society
  • Tools to close the knowledge gaps that perpetuate inequality and invisibility

Application Information

Evidence for Equity is designed for senior-level executives and leaders from government, nonprofit, and corporate organizations with an interest in or commitment to equity-related outcomes.

Recommended applicants include: 

  • Senior officials from local, state, and national governments and intergovernmental organizations
  • Leaders from nonprofit and nongovernmental or civil society organizations
  • Executives from corporate sector companies 

View the draft program schedule. Note that module titles, speakers, and sequence may change.

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Faculty Reflection

“To truly achieve meaningful progress toward equity, we need new tools to measure and understand inequality.”
Zoe Marks, Faculty Co-chair, Evidence for Equity and Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School
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Learn more about Evidence for Equity  from Faculty Co-Chairs Zoe Marks and Teddy Svoronos

Faculty & Research

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Zoe Marks

Lecturer in Public Policy

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Teddy Svoronos

Senior Lecturer in Public Policy

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Desmond Ang

Associate Professor of Public Policy

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Michela Carlana

Associate Professor of Public Policy

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Sharad Goel

Professor of Public Policy

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Yanilda González

Ford Foundation Assistant Professor of Public Policy

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Hannah Riley Bowles

Co-Director, Women and Public Policy Program
Roy E. Larsen Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management

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Daniel Schneider

Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, vlog; Professor of Sociology, FAS

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Sandra Susan Smith

Director, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice, vlog; Professor of Sociology, FAS; Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor, Radcliffe

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