Policy Lunches Offer Insights into Breaking World News
By Robert Liu, ’14 SIG’s Campus Awareness Committee had a memorable, productive, and pioneering year. The weekly policy lunches have remained its hallmark events, and this year were particularly timely, with speakers and topics that coincided with current events in domestic and international politics. The year started strong with a well-attended lunch on the Syria […]
From Sacramento to Warsaw: How a SIG Fellow’s Experience Changed Her Life
By Claire Zabel, BS ’14, MS ’15 During the summer of 2013, I worked at the California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR) through a SIG Fellowship made possible by The Edwin L. Z’Berg Fellowship in California State Conservation and Environmental Issues Fund. It was the most valuable professional experience I have had. The […]
Legacy and Strategy: Petraeus Addresses Policy, Amid Protest
By Tim Hegedus, ’17 “There is no greater privilege in life than serving one’s country.” General David Petraeus, Stanford University, March 14, 2014. On March 14, SIG co-hosted an event with the Stanford Speakers Bureau (SSB), featuring former CIA Director and four-star general David Petraeus. In a panel moderated by Colonel Joseph Felter of Stanford’s […]
County Initiatives Committee Announces New Opportunities for Stanford Students
By Emma Leeds Armstrong, ’18, and Jack Blaisdell, ’18 Thanks to funding secured by County Supervisor Joe Simitian, MA ’00, Stanford in Government will offer six new fellowships in Santa Clara County offices this summer. The opportunities include placements in the Office of Reentry Services, the Office of Women’s Policy, and the Santa Clara Valley […]
New SIG Member Reflects on Conversation with Gen. Hayden
Julia Laurence joined Stanford in Government this fall. Last Wednesday I frantically pulled on a dress and heels after class and pedaled over to Cemex Auditorium for my first event as a new member of Stanford in Government. I arrived early to help usher in guests and hand out question cards for the SIG Special Events […]
Public Policy Forum: A New Dialogue
By: Libby Scholz, ’17 At the beginning of this academic year, SIG’s board inaugurated a new role for the Public Policy Forum (PPF). As SIG Chair Meredith Wheeler, ’14, explained, the Public Policy Forum “provides an informal space for members of the SIG and the Stanford communities to discuss contemporary policy issues in a peer-to-peer […]