Kathleen Kelly Janus

Kathleen Kelly Janus

Governor Gavin Newsom

Senior Advisor on Social Innovation

Kathleen Kelly Janus is the Senior Advisor on Social Innovation to Governor Gavin Newsom. As a social entrepreneur, author and lecturer at Stanford University’s Program on Social Entrepreneurship. An attorney, Kathleen has spearheaded numerous social justice initiatives. Kathleen is a co-founder of Spark, a network which seeks to advance gender equality by engaging the next generation in accessible forms of philanthropy. As a teaching fellow at Stanford Law School, Kathleen helped launch and direct Stanford Law School’s international human rights clinics in Namibia and South Africa. She has also served as pro bono counsel at Covington and Burling and a litigation associate at Thelen Reid & Priest.