Danielle ALlen

Danielle Allen is James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University. She is also Director of the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation at the Harvard Kennedy School and Director of the Democratic Knowledge Project-Learn, a research lab focused on civic education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is the 2020 winner of the Library of Congress's Kluge Prize, which recognizes scholarly achievement in the disciplines not covered by the Nobel Prize. She received the Prize "for her internationally recognized scholarship in political theory and her commitment to improving democratic practice and civics education."

During the height of COVID in 2020, Danielle’s leadership in rallying coalitions and building solutions resulted in the country’s first-ever Roadmap to Pandemic Resilience; her team's policies were adopted in federal legislation and a presidential executive order; and, from 2020 to 2022, in response to the governance failures of the pandemic, Danielle ran for governor of Massachusetts, making history as the first Black woman ever to run for statewide office in Massachusetts. She is a lead author on the Roadmap to Educating for American Democracy (EAD), a framework for securing excellence in history and civic education for all learners, K-12, released in 2021, and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and U.S. Department of Education under both the Trump and the Biden administrations.