Kenzie Bok
Priscilla Kenzie Bok (born June 30th, 1989) is an affordable housing policymaker, community leader, academic historian, and candidate in the 2019 Boston City Council election for District 8.[1]
Education
Kenzie was educated at the John Winthrop School, the Park School, and Milton Academy.[2] She then attended Harvard College, where she graduated in 2011 with an A.B. in History, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, with a language certificate in Mandarin Chinese. While at Harvard, she served as student president of the Institute of Politics,[3] interned at the Chicago headquarters of the 2008 Obama for America campaign, and interned at the White House in 2010. Also in 2010, she was awarded a Marshall Scholarship and went on to study at the University of Cambridge (St John's College), where she earned her M.Phil. in Political Thought & Intellectual History in 2012 and then her Ph.D. in History in 2016.[4] While at Cambridge, she won the St John's Benefactors Scholarship, the Quentin Skinner Prize, the Sara Norton Prize, and the Thirwall Medal and Prince Consort Prize for her academic work.[5] She has published peer-reviewed articles on the philosopher John Rawls in Modern Intellectual History and the Journal of the History of Ideas.[6]
Career
After completing her academic studies, Kenzie served as Budget Director for At-Large City Councilor Annissa Essaibi George with a focus on analyzing the Boston Public Schools budget and advocating for more school nurses, psychologists, and librarians.[7] That same year, Kenzie helped lead the successful ballot initiative campaign to enact the Community Preservation Act (CPA) in Boston[8] and wrote the Yes for a Better Boston coalition's draft of the CPA ordinance.
Since 2017 she has worked both as the Senior Advisor for Policy and Planning at the Boston Housing Authority and as a lecturer in Social Studies at Harvard University. From 2018 to 2019, she chaired the Boston Ward 5 Democratic Committee.
She currently serves on the board of the Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance[9] and the Episcopal Chaplaincy at Harvard. She is also a Vestry member at Trinity Church in Copley Square.[10]
Kenzie is a candidate in the 2019 Boston City Council Election for District 8, which includes the neighborhoods of the West End, Beacon Hill, Back Bay, Fenway, Audubon Circle, Longwood, and Mission Hill.
Boston City Council race
On March 29th, 2019, Kenzie entered the race for the District 8 seat in the 2019 Boston City Council election.
Personal life
Kenzie grew up in the Bay Village neighborhood of Boston and currently resides on Beacon Hill.
References
- ↑ Bennett, Lauren. "Kenzie Bok Joins Growing Race for District 8 City Council". www.beaconhilltimes.com. Beacon Hill times. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
- ↑ "Alumna and Harvard Senior, Kenzie Bok '07, Wins Prestigious Marshall Scholarship". www.milton.edu. Milton Academy. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
- ↑ Koch, Katie. "Two named Marshall Scholars". www.news.harvard.edu. The Harvard Gazette. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
- ↑ "Kenzie Bok, Lecturer on Social Studies". www.socialstudies.fas.harvard.edu. Harvard University. Archived from the original on 14 November 2019. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
- ↑ "Fall 2018 – Spring 2019 Seminar Dates and Speakers". www.kenan.ethics.duke.edu. Duke University. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
- ↑ Bok, Priscilla Mackenzie (2017). ""To the mountaintop again: the early rawls and post-protestant ethics in postwar america."". Modern Intellectual History. 14 (1): 153–185.
- ↑ "Annissa Essaibi George Endorses Kenzie Bok for Boston City Council". www.thebostonsun.com. The Boston Sun. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
- ↑ "First-time candidate Kenzie Bok wows the District 8 field". www.bostonglobe.com. The Boston Globe. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
- ↑ "Bok, Kenzie". www.mahahome.org/. Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance. Archived from the original on 5 October 2019. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
- ↑ "P. MacKenzie Bok ('22)". www.trinitychurchboston.org. Trinity Church Boston. Archived from the original on 5 October 2019. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
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