Marysol Fernández Harvey (she/her/ella) was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico and has strong ties to New York City. She graduated from Brown University with a double concentration in Comparative Literature and Economics. After graduating, Marysol worked as a Consultant at TCC Group, a social impact consulting firm, where she focused on supporting philanthropic partners in shifting practices in closer partnership with communities. Additionally, she worked as a Writing and Organizing Fellow at the Horizons Project, an organization that works to strengthen key relationships, foster collaborations, and channel resources within the ecosystem of social change to address injustice, advance societal healing, and reimagine our democracy. In this role, Marysol develops research and resources for practitioners seeking to learn from and contextualize different approaches to change work alongside diverse stakeholders.
As a Ph.D. student of American and Comparative Politics in the Government and Social Policy Program, Marysol seeks to bridge siloes between U.S. domestic and international scholarship on democratic strengthening. She is interested in literatures on conflict transformation, civil resistance, peacebuilding, and American social movement studies, in exploring an expanded tactical toolbox for combating democratic backsliding and increasing inequality in the United States. She employs a mixed methods approach to the evaluation of the comparative effectiveness across a diversity of tactics and approaches available to civil society actors in protecting and expanding democratic practice.
While at Brown, she was awarded the Royce Fellowship for independent, engaged research and the Cogut Fellowship for her honors thesis ‘Translating the Nation’. In 2020, Marysol was awarded the national Truman Scholarship for leadership, public service, and academic achievement.
Contact
mfernandezharvey@fas.harvard.edu
1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Subfields
American Politics | Comparative Politics
Academic Interests
Civil Society and Social Movements | Democracy | Institutions | Non-governmental Organizations
Research Methods
Qualitative Methods | Quantitative Methods