Max Boland

Max Boland is the Student Research Community Coordinator at the Shorenstein Center and a Faculty Assistant at HKS. Max is responsible for building the Center’s student resource community by managing all student-facing Shorenstein Center programs, including The HKS Student Policy Review and the Behavioral Insights Student Group, as well as events, trainings, seminars, internships, funding opportunities, and research assistantships.

As a Faculty Assistant, Max provides teaching, research, and administrative support to Professors Nancy Gibbs, Cornell William Brooks, and Todd Rogers, as well as numerous others since 2022. Max has supported operations across multiple professor-led research laboratories, including the Tech Science Program, Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice, Fandom and Social Connection Initiative, and Constructive Disagreement Lab.

Before joining the Shorenstein Center, Max worked at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, where he developed K–12 civics lesson plans and taught Virginia high school students about American politics, communication, and leadership.

He holds degrees in government from UVA and Harvard, as well as an MBA from Fitchburg State. In his free time, you can find Max spending time with his family, playing bass guitar, watching sports, or quoting popular movies and TV shows. Max is a proud native of Massachusetts’ beautiful North Shore.