Diane Liang

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Recruiting more women won’t solve police brutality

29th January 2021

Diane Liang, Master’s in Public Policy candidate, Harvard Kennedy School

OPINION: Debates around ‘warrior cop’ masculinity and excessive use of force in policing have continued in the wake of the death of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests; but suggestions that simply hiring more women will change police culture are flawed, says Harvard Masters candidate Diane Liang.

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Diane Liang
Master’s in Public Policy candidate

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Diane Liang is a Master’s in Public Policy 2021 candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). Before HKS, she served as a research assistant at the Brookings Institution, under the John L. Thornton China Center. There, she supported research on US-China relations, as well as Chinese foreign policy, elite politics, and socio-political issues. Prior to joining Brookings, she served as an intern at the Albright Stonebridge Group, the United Nations Development Programme’s China country office, and at the Embassy of Canada to the United States. She received a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University, where she completed a joint degree in economics and political science. She has studied Mandarin, French, Modern Standard Arabic, and Italian, and also speaks Cantonese.