John Cassidy recently completed a graduate degree in public policy from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and is a graduate of Central Michigan University. Before coming to the Kennedy School, he served as the Director of the National Youth Leadership Forum on Technology, a non-profit leadership company linking top technology firms with high school students from around the nation. John spent two years teaching history, economics and US Government in Manistee, Michigan. John serves as the chairman of the Center for Public Leadership Student Advisory Board at the Kennedy School. He spent this past summer with Deloitte and Touche's national security consulting practice, working on projects for DHS and DOJ. John recently volunteered with the Hillary Clinton campaign in Iowa.