The new Democracy Visiting Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School is Dr. Jeanne Sheehan Zaino from Iona University in New Rochelle. She will be part of a team of practitioners and researchers from around the world whose mission is to examine the challenges of governance in the 21st century and developing innovative solutions.
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During the Fellowship, Zaino will use the resources and time to work on a new book that explores the causes of the decline of democracy and steps that can be taken to mitigate this situation.
Zaino is a professor of international studies and political science at Iona and is known for including experience from the real world in her classroom. She also contributes regularly to Bloomberg News and provides insights into constitutional governance, democratic institutions, and elections in this country and around the world. Zaino has also been director of the Honors Program, dean of the School of Arts and Science, and chair of the Political Science Department at Iona.
Zaina expressed her gratitude to the Ash Center and the Kennedy School at Harvard for this opportunity and everyone else at the university who has supported this effort. She said that she is looking forward to sharing her work with the larger community at Iona.
