Graduate School
Harvard Kennedy School
Fellowship
Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services
Supervisors
Jeremiah Hay and Tami Segal, Deputy Chiefs of Staff
Mentors
Ellen Semonoff, Cambridge Department of Human Services Programs and Aanandita Shrestha, Boston Public Health Commission
Fellowship Description
HHS needs support in its response to the state’s “Emergency Assistance” shelter crisis, which is being driven by an unprecedented increase in new arrivers to the state. The “Strategy Team” within HHS is heavily engaged on the response to the crisis, including formulating and implementing policy recommendations, capacity planning, service delivery, interagency coordination, management of “overflow” shelter sites, among other core functions. Catherine will join that team for the summer, delivering much-needed high impact, flexible support across that work at a crucial time.