Alex Green teaches political communications at Harvard Kennedy School. He is a visiting fellow at the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, a senior fellow at the Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation, and a visiting scholar at the Brandeis University Lurie Institute for Disability Policy. He has piloted a nationally recognized disability history curriculum for high school students, developed and taught the first graduate disability policy course offered at the University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Public Policy, and authored legislation to create a first-of-its-kind, disability-led human rights commission to investigate the history of state institutions for disabled people in Massachusetts. In 2021 he was awarded the Kennedy’s School’s Manuel C. Carballo Award for Excellence in Teaching. In addition to his disability-related work, he has published and consulted widely on communications and negotiation. Green’s writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, and (with his students) The New York Times. He lives outside of Boston.
Profiles and Media Coverage
“Their disabled loved ones languished in state institutions. Now, they want the records,” WGBH (NPR) Boston. Read and listen here.
“A World-First, The Arc Helps Lead the Launch of the Massachusetts Special Commission on State Institutions,” Arc of Massachusetts. Read here.
“HPOD Fellow Alex Green Receives Marie Feltin Award,” Harvard Law School Project on Disability. Read here.
“Mass. Locked Up People With Mental Illness For Decades. Now Advocates Want Their Stories Told,” WBUR (NPR) Boston. Read and listen here.
“Massachusetts Historian Works to Solve Mystery of Anonymous Graves,” NPR’s Morning Edition. Listen here.
“The Quest to Honor Disabled Patients Buried in Anonymous Graves,” AtlasObscura. Read here.
“Students shine light on Waltham cemetery for the disabled,” The Boston Globe. Read here.
“These High Schoolers Are Calling For A National Disability History Museum By Making Their Own,” NPR’s Here and Now. Read and listen here.