Tishaura Jones landed back in St. Louis Wednesday morning, the latest flight in a busy semester spent, in her words, “jet-setting between Cambridge and St. Louis.” By 4:30 p.m., the city’s former mayor was on stage at WashU’s Hillman Hall with St. Louis County Executive Sam Page, capping off one of two university fellowships she had this spring.
“It has been one of the greatest experiences of my life,” she tells SLM.
This spring, Jones was a resident fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, within a cohort of five others as well as two visiting fellows: former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy…