Better Solutions, Better Outcomes: Innovation in the Public Sector

The Haas Center for Public Service and the Levin Center for Public Service & Public Interest Law invite you to the 2026 Mimi and Peter E. Haas Lecture on Public Service and the University to hear from a panel of four experienced leaders who share a passion for making public systems work better.

We are thrilled to welcome Thomas Lee, Kris Perry, Libby Schaaf, and Regi Young as our 2026 Distinguished Visitors. Each of them lead or shape policy-driven systems through government, public agencies, or large-scale nonprofit organizations. Their work addresses economic barriers such as housing and food insecurity, education inequity, and public infrastructure. These issues directly affect communities locally and beyond.

The panel will be followed by a Q&A and reception. We hope you can join us!

The Mimi and Peter E. Haas Distinguished Visitors program invites leaders to campus during the winter and spring quarters to co-teach a course and to meet and collaborate with members of the Stanford community. This year, the Distinguished Visitors bring their decades of experience remaking public service systems to the spring course Challenging the Status Quo: Innovation in the Public Sector, taught by Kathleen Kelly Janus. The course reflects an evolving model of university teaching—one that pairs academic frameworks with practitioner insight to generate new ways of thinking about public leadership and systems change.

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