Ali Epstein – Rappaport

Organization

Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston

Program

Rappaport Public Policy Fellow

Year

2025

Rappaport Public Policy Fellows spend 10 weeks each summer serving within the highest levels of state and municipal governments in the Greater Boston Area. The program includes students from graduate and professional programs at local universities.

Graduate School: Harvard Kennedy School

Agency: Boston Mayor’s Policy and Planning Group

Project Description: Ali’s projects with the Boston Mayor’s Policy and Planning Group will include strategies for revitalizing downtown Boston such as envisioning new use for vacant real estate, building a new office to recruit businesses to Boston, and designing efforts to launch a food cart program intended to expand pathways to economic mobility.