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Anne Drazen
E-mail: anne_drazen@hks.harvard.edu
Associate Dean, SLATE
Anne Drazen is responsible for the Case Program. In her previous role at KSG, she was the Associate Dean for Information Technology Services.
Before joining the Kennedy School in 1998, Anne was the Assistant Dean and Chief Technology Officer at the Sloan School of Management at MIT where she was responsible for systems support and distance-learning initiatives. Drazen was a member of the MIT President’s Council on Educational Technology. She worked at Data General Corporation, Wang Laboratories, Digital Equipment Corporation, and IBM in a variety of technical, marketing, and management positions.
She received her BS in mathematics from Syracuse University and her MS in computer science from Ohio State University. |
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Rebecca Loose
E-mail: rebecca_loose@hks.harvard.edu
Associate Director, SLATE
Rebecca Loose is responsible for managing administrative, financial and marketing activities for SLATE and helps determine curricular support needs, prepares business plans, and works with internal and external resources on the development, roll out, and assessment of SLATE products and services.
Rebecca has been a part of the Kennedy School’s IT senior management team for the last three years as a project manager and consultant on a number of administrative systems projects. She has successfully led a number of cross-functional teams and has experience in business and strategic planning.
Prior to coming to the Kennedy School, Rebecca worked as a consultant and project manager for PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, Time Warner Book Group, and Blue Cross Blue Shield.
Rebecca has a BBA in Operations Management and Information Technology (with a secondary concentration in Economics) from the College of William and Mary. |
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Patricia Garcia-Rios
E-mail: Patricia_Garcia-Rios@hks.harvard.edu
Multimedia Case Writer, SLATE
Patricia Garcia-Rios is a film & video writer and producer with fifteen years’ experience in documentaries for PBS. She worked for ten years at WGBH-Boston, developing a broad range of skills in the areas of visual and written storytelling. She has acted as producer and co-producer on the series Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? (PBS, 2008), They Made America (PBS, 2004), Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (PBS, 2004), and Chicago: City of the Century (PBS, 2003). In 2005 she was nominated for a Writers Guild award for Reconstruction.
Ms. Garcia-Rios was a print journalist in her native Spain. She began her career in documentaries in the early 1990s at the legendary production company Blackside, Inc. of Eyes on the Prize fame. Her work on the landmark series Africans in America: America’s Journey through Slavery (PBS, 1998) earned her an Emmy in the category of research.
Recently, she has acted as writing and story consultant on several documentaries for film and television, among them Our Disappeared (PBS, forthcoming), Traces of the Trade (Sundance Film Festival/POV, 2008), The Borinqueneers (PBS, 2007), Buddy (2005), and Damrell’s Fire (PBS, 2005).
Ms. Garcia-Rios has a Master’s degree in Broadcast Journalism from Boston University and a BA in Journalism from Universidad Complutense, Madrid. |
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Pam Varley
E-mail: pam_varley@hks.harvard.edu
Casewriter, SLATE
Pamela Varley has spent the last 25 years as a researcher, writer and editor, focusing on topics of general public interest. In the early 1980s, she worked for three years as a reporter for the Cambridge Chronicle—covering city politics, housing policy, and the public school system—and for an additional year as a Boston freelance writer. Since 1985, she has worked as a casewriter at the Kennedy School of Government (with an 18-month hiatus between 1996 and 1997).
Ms. Varley’s published cases include: “The Urban League Adjusts to a Post-Civil Rights Landscape”; “Tradition Transformation and a Divided Spirit: A 21st Century Quandary for the American Red Cross”; “Command Peformance: County firefighters take charge of the 9/11 Pentagon Emergency”; “The City of Chicago and the 1995 Heat Wave”; “Battling for Rule of Law in Mexico City: Crime, Corruption, and Criminal Justice.”
In 1991, she won the Stephen Ballinger Hitchner Case Prize for the case study, “Jesse Helms v. Harvey Gantt: Race, Culture and Campaign Strategy in the 1990 Senate Battle,” and again in 1993 for the case study “Responding to Disaster: The Story of the Guadalajara Sewer Explosion.” In 1996-1997, Varley directed a major research project for the Investor Responsibility Research Center. As part of that project, she edited a four-part, 594-page book, called The Sweatshop Quandary: Corporate Responsibility on the Global Frontier, which was praised for its clarity and accessibility. Varley received a BA in English Literature from Oberlin College in 1979.
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