Coakley to Join Harvard as Resident Fellow
Martha Coakley will be one of five new fellows at Harvard’s Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, the school announced Thursday. Coakley, loser of November’s governor’s race, has served as the state’s attorney general for eight years.
Coakley lost a close race to new Republican governor Charlie Baker by about 40,000 votes, or less than two percent of the vote. It was her second major political defeat, after losing a 2010 U.S. Senate special election to Scott Brown.
Coakley will officially leave office when her Democratic successor Maura Healey is sworn in Jan. 21, five days before Harvard’s spring term begins.
The spring resident fellow roster also includes Kay Hagan, the former one-term Democratic senator from North Carolina, and Christine Quinn, the former speaker of the New York City Council, who lost in the city’s 2013 Democratic mayoral primary.
They’ll be joined by TIME congressional correspondent Jay Newton-Small and, somewhat ironically, Matt Lira the National Republican Senatorial Committee deputy executive director.
Lira helped lead the 2014 Republican wave that flipped the Senate to the GOP and contributed in the defeats of Coakley and Hagan.
During the semester, fellows lead and develop weekly study groups, participate in Harvard intellectual life and interact with students.
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