Danielle Allen
Cambridge, Mass.
Contributing columnist
Danielle Allen, a Washington Post contributing columnist, is a political philosopher and scholar of public policy at Harvard University, where she is James Bryant Conant University Professor and director of the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation.
She has published numerous books on justice and citizenship, including most recently, “Justice by Means of Democracy,” as well as the acclaimed 2017 family memoir “Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.” In 2015, she served as chair of the Pulitzer Prize board, and in 2021 she entered the Democratic primary for governor of Massachusetts before ending
