
Alex Green
Alex Green teaches op-ed writing and writing for politics and policy, and is an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, and (with his students) The New York Times. He is an op-ed contributor to Cognoscenti, the ideas and opinions page for WBUR-NPR Boston, and the New England Correspondent for Publishers Weekly magazine.
Green is a widely recognized advocate, writer, and scholar on the history of disability institutions in America. In 2017, he led the creation of a nationally recognized project-based, community-focused disability history curriculum for high school students at Gann Academy. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Law School Project on Disability and a faculty mentor in the Harvard Medical School Media and Medicine certificate program. His current work focuses on the history of institutionalization in America and human rights approaches to addressing their legacy.
For more than a decade, Green has worked with the Harvard Negotiation Project, based at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, where he is currently a Senior Fellow. His research in support of the Great Negotiator project has focused on how negotiators successfully resolve global conflicts. In conjunction with that work, he is the senior research associate for the American Secretaries of State Project at the Kennedy School. He is the author of numerous case studies, working papers, and curricular materials relating to negotiation and conflict resolution.
Green holds a masters degree in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School (’14), and a bachelor of arts degree in Anthropology from Brandeis University. From 2005-2015, he was the founder and owner of Back Pages Books, an independent bookstore outside of Boston. He lives outside of Boston with his wife, Kaytie, who directs a youth services non-profit.
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Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Senior Fellow, Harvard Negotiation Project