Harvard Kennedy School Public Policy Leadership Conference 2026 (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: July 10, 2026

Applications are open for the Harvard Kennedy School Public Policy Leadership Conference 2026. The Public Policy Leadership Conference (PPLC) connects formidable undergraduate college students with academic leaders and sources designed to domesticate tutorial excellence and develop public coverage alternatives for many who could face challenges in navigating graduate schooling pathways.

PPLC alumni have gone on to pursue additional study in public coverage and careers in public service as leaders in:

• Federal, state, or native governments
• Nongovernmental organizations
• Nonprofit organizations
• Intergovernmental organizations
• International establishments
• Social enterprises

During the PPLC, you’ll have the prospect to study extra about public coverage graduate faculty and the way it can influence your life and profession. You will join with present HKS college students, college, and workers in addition to different dynamic undergraduate college students round urgent coverage points, and expertise what it’s prefer to be an HKS scholar for a weekend. You will even obtain necessary details about fellowship and scholarship alternatives that may assist fund your HKS graduate research, and public coverage profession alternatives.

Costs

• All prices related to attending the Public Policy Leadership Conference are paid for by Harvard Kennedy School, together with flights, transportation in Boston, lodging, and meals whereas on the convention. 

Eligibility

To be thought of for PPLC, you have to: 

• Be enrolled in a two- or 4-yr U.S. undergraduate establishment on the time of the convention.
• Be a U.S. citizen, everlasting resident, or non-citizen U.S. nationwide.
• Have accomplished at the very least 2 tutorial semesters at a two- or 4-yr U.S. establishment on the time of the convention.
• Not be scheduled to obtain a bachelor’s diploma within the 2026-2027 tutorial yr.
• Be eligible to obtain a Federal Pell grant for the present tutorial yr (2026-27). Your eligibility will be verified by way of your FAFSA Submission Summary or institutional monetary assist workplace.
• Have a 3.0 grade level common (GPA) or above.
• Demonstrate an abiding dedication to public service by way of activism, scholar management, civic participation at college, in your neighborhood, or by way of volunteering. These particulars needs to be included in your resume and private assertion essay.

Application

If you have an interest in making use of to the convention, they require you to submit: 

• Your on-line application kind
• Your résumé
• A private assertion essay
• A letter of advice (we advise that you simply ask your recommender as early as doable)
• An undergraduate tutorial transcript, which can be unofficial

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Public Policy Leadership Conference.