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WASHINGTON — Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s next chapter will take her to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she will teach a course tentatively titled “Health Policy and Leadership,” drawing heavily on her experiences steering the city through the COVID-19 pandemic and grappling with health equity issues. Lightfoot will be the Richard L. and Ronay A. Menschel senior leadership fellow at the school for the quarter beginning at the end of August. Eric Andersen, director of the Senior Leadership Fellows Program and studio programming at the school, said in an interview, “we reached out” to Lightfoot because “I think as mayor and as a leader she faced many pressing public health issues, most notable navigating the pandemic. “We believe our students will benefit from her experiences, insights and knowledge of leadership decision-making,” he said. The Menschel program, the school said in a statement, “offers a rare opportunity for those who have recently served in top-level positions in government, multilateral institutions, nonprofit organizations and journalism to spend time at the school mentoring and teaching students who aspire to similar roles. Lightfoot will hold regular office hours to meet with students, faculty and staff during her time on campus.” Previous Menschel fellows have included former mayors and governors. Last year, former New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and former Boston Mayor Kim Janey were fellows. Lightfoot wrapped up one term as ...

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Mayor Lightfoot became the Here are some of Lightfoot's biggest controversies as her time as Chicago's mayor comes to an end. Dancing video amid high crime One of the most recent gaffes on Lightfoot's behalf came during the months leading up to the February election. She posted a video to Twitter showing her However, with crime hitting a 51% increase at the time of the video's release, viewers and residents slammed her video for being insensitive. Charles Rex Arbogast/AP Hot mic catches Lightfoot on occasion Lightfoot has been caught by a few hot microphones throughout her term. In 2021, Lightfoot was appearing virtually at a Chicago City Council meeting and believed her microphone was off. She A few months after her inauguration in 2019, Lightfoot called Pat Murray, then the vice president of the Fraternal Order of Police, a "clown." "Oh, back again," Lightfoot whispered from her seat on the dais in the City Council. "This is this FOP clown." She later admitted she should have not called Murray a clown but that there were " Lawsuit filed against Lightfoot for profanity In March 2022, a lawyer for the Chicago Park District filed a lawsuit against Lightfoot for Lightfoot allegedly said, "You are out there measuring your d***s with the Italians seeing whose got the biggest d***." She added, "I've got the biggest d*** in Chicago." The outgoing mayor faced severe backlash for the comments, but Lightfoot said at the time that the "deeply offensive and ridiculous claims" were "w...

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This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Seismic shifts in politics sometimes aren’t appreciated in real time. The urgent often overtakes the important; deadlines to avoid government shutdowns, for instance, crowd out significant but quiet shifts in public sentiment on topics like Did that just happen? Perhaps Lightfoot’s bigger power is that of reminder. It has long been taken as an article of faith that Chicago is a Democratic stronghold, the place where John F. Kennedy is Lightfoot will, of course, be fine. The days of Daley-style political dynasties in Chicago are probably more mythology than strategy these days, but Lightfoot’s Still, in 2023, with so much of the last four years still as unsettled canon in future history books, Lightfoot may serve as a hint that—just maybe—we haven’t yet fully appreciated the historic moment we just lived through. Retrospection and reflection are valuable, but almost always find their way to the list of things to be handled tomorrow. As politicians in Washington and elsewhere consider their own fates, they’d do well to consider the warnings incumbent with Lightfoot: what had long been assumed to be a safe run turned perilous and then temporary in short order. Engaging in fights—and winning, in some cases—with powerful unions is seldom a winning strategy for Democratic leaders, but it proved riskier than expected. And crime, and how it is perceived, ma...

Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has been appointed as a Richard L. and Ronay A. Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow for the fall term at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. During her tenure as mayor, which ended May 15, Lightfoot led a coordinated, citywide response across government, business, and community organizations to safeguard public health and minimize economic impact from the COVID-19 pandemic. Among other steps, she created a Racial Equity Rapid Response Team and the COVID-19 Recovery Task Force. Chicago’s first Black woman and first openly gay mayor, Lightfoot also focused on generating inclusive economic growth across the city’s neighborhoods. Her accomplishments included landmark ethics and good governance reforms, worker protection legislation, and key investments in education, public safety, and financial stability. In August of 2021, Lightfoot secured a $15 minimum wage for most workers in Chicago, including domestic workers, years ahead of the state’s planned phase-in of a living wage. Before taking office as mayor, Lightfoot held several other leadership roles in city government and served as a federal prosecutor. In the Department of Health Policy and Management, she will teach a course (tentatively titled) “Health Policy and Leadership.” The

Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot will teach a course at Harvard later this year on “Health Policy and Leadership,” she announced on Thursday. “I’ve always loved teaching, and the opportunity to get back to it is something I am really excited about,” Lightfoot said in a statement. “I learned a lot over the past four years, and this gives me an opportunity to share my experiences and perceptions of governing through one of the most challenging chapters in American history.” [ ] The course will draw on her experiences Early in the pandemic, when Black Chicagoans were dying at six times the rate of whites, Lightfoot and her team led by Dr. Allison Arwady worked to address that startling disparity. They provided door-to-door outreach with masks and information in vulnerable communities and, when vaccines became available, prioritized them for South and West side residents. But Lightfoot also was slow to take action when the pandemic spurred Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker to close schools and businesses across the state, following along only reluctantly. She later clashed with the governor over bar and restaurant rules and battled the Chicago Teachers Union in a push to return to in-person learning, even as she faced blowback over keeping the lakefront closed too long. Her supporters praised her effort to make Chicago the largest open city in America, but critics accused her of acting too hastily to loosen restrictions. As mayor, Lightfoot also walked away from her campaign prom...

On her final full weekday in office, Mayor Lori Lightfoot left a surprise farewell gift for her successor as she handed down a flurry of executive orders, aiming to leave a final mark from her administration — and apparently Lightfoot’s 10 orders, issued hours before she likely walked out of City Hall for the final time as mayor, touch on a range of policies, from formally establishing the Office of New Americans to directing agencies to create a “chamber of commerce or delegate agency” to help oversee her Johnson can rescind Lightfoot’s orders once he’s inaugurated Monday, but her 11th-hour move puts him on the spot to publicly slap down the lame-duck decrees. Representatives for Johnson’s transition team didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. “Under my administration, Chicago has put its fiscal house in order, and I’m proud of the financial turnaround our team led,” Lightfoot was quoted as saying in a press release on the pension advance fund executive order. “The good work of government continues,” her office tweeted along with a link to the orders. Related • The outgoing mayor did not address the orders at an unrelated Bronzeville news conference earlier in the day, shortly after they were filed with the city clerk but before her office announced them. “I feel very, very good about our record of accomplishment,” Lightfoot said at the news conference. “I am confident that it will live on in the lives of the people that we have touched, in the neighborhoods ...

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This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Seismic shifts in politics sometimes aren’t appreciated in real time. The urgent often overtakes the important; deadlines to avoid government shutdowns, for instance, crowd out significant but quiet shifts in public sentiment on topics like Did that just happen? Perhaps Lightfoot’s bigger power is that of reminder. It has long been taken as an article of faith that Chicago is a Democratic stronghold, the place where John F. Kennedy is Lightfoot will, of course, be fine. The days of Daley-style political dynasties in Chicago are probably more mythology than strategy these days, but Lightfoot’s Still, in 2023, with so much of the last four years still as unsettled canon in future history books, Lightfoot may serve as a hint that—just maybe—we haven’t yet fully appreciated the historic moment we just lived through. Retrospection and reflection are valuable, but almost always find their way to the list of things to be handled tomorrow. As politicians in Washington and elsewhere consider their own fates, they’d do well to consider the warnings incumbent with Lightfoot: what had long been assumed to be a safe run turned perilous and then temporary in short order. Engaging in fights—and winning, in some cases—with powerful unions is seldom a winning strategy for Democratic leaders, but it proved riskier than expected. And crime, and how it is perceived, ma...