Jessica Levy is a senior joint concentrating in Social Studies and Philosophy.  She is interested in understanding and combatting systemic injustice in political institutions. She explores her interest in government through her involvement with the Institute of Politics and the International Relations Council. She is the Director of International Relations Week, serves as an Assistant Director for Harvard Model United Nations, and will be traveling to Rome this spring to chair the Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural Committee at the World Model United Nations Conference. Jessica also swims on Harvard's club swim team, is an ambassador for the fellows at the Advanced Leadership Institute, and is the International Curriculum Coordinator for Harvard College Mentors for Urban Debate. She has been recognized as a Harvard College Scholar (2015, 2016) as well as a Liman Public Interest Law Fellow (2016).

With funding from the Lester Kissel Grant in Practical Ethics, Jessica is exploring the ethics of civil obedience as an act of protest in instances in which strict and performative adherence to the law may act as a means of communicating publically the absurdity of said law.

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