While Kellogg workers labored through the pandemic working egregious hours — sometimes 16-hour overtime shifts, up to seven days a week — the company’s CEO Steve Cahillane made $11.6 million in pocketed profit.
"The people who are responsible for the content that lands in our newspapers or that lands on our television screens, 90% of those people do not look like the rising majority of America."
"Politics is a duty or obligation in which you serve for a term or two, and then return to your previous line of work. The problem is that there’s so much focus on reelection, that politicians barely have time to do the job. And that’s no way to do business."
"We need to unleash the American spirit toward volunteerism in this very tough time, and I think doing so will help people focus on what can actually be done across their communities."
"I constantly think about what I am doing in my role to improve the lives of working people in this country. I think I've been blessed to work at some of the highest levels of government and politics, and with that comes a responsibility to use that expertise to help others."
Persistence and grit define first-generation, low-income students, even as we hide behind a facade of easy success. Harvard is incredibly diverse, both in privilege and lived experience, and we deserve an institution that is more responsive to our concerns and the unique challenges we face.
"The value of analytics is your ability to communicate directly with people. I think the reason why you’ve seen turnout increase so much over the last few election cycles is that voting analytics allows people to talk about issues that they specifically care about and not issues that only 10 percent of swing voters care about."
As the generation of individuals inspired into service by Kennedy retires, a new wave of public servants must take up the mantle with innovative ideas that impact their communities.
