Mary Jo Bane is an American political scientist who focuses on children and welfare.
While attending Georgetown University, she campaigned for Senator John F. Kennedy’s presidential election.
She became inspired by his foreign affairs platform and joined the Peace Corps, where she taught schoolchildren in Liberia.
[4] A few years later, Bane was elected a 2003 American Academy of Political and Social Science Fellow.
[5] A few years later, Bane was elected the Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government Academic Dean, replacing Stephen M.