Policy Day is a curated one-day forum designed to cultivate connections between Stanford researchers and local government representatives in the Bay Area working on environmental resilience issues. The event will highlight success stories, investigate current priorities in local government, and foster dialogue to uncover the constraints and opportunities for meaningful partnership between scholars and government.

Sessions

• Local Government: Government leaders will present about their roles, how projects are conceived and executed, and environmental resilience priorities.

• Academic-Public Partnerships: Stanford researchers and their partners working in the government and nonprofit space will present on their research collaborations. 

• Stanford Researchers: Scholars will present current Stanford environmental resilience research across topic areas, including Health, Energy, and Communication, among others.

• Breakout Groups: Researchers and government staff will break into groups based on topic areas to engage in facilitated dialogue about local environmental resilience issues, research-informed solutions, and paths for improved government-academic partnerships.

This event is co-sponsored by Stanford Impact Labs, Hoover Institution's State and Local Governance Initiative, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), the Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford Democracy Hub and the Stanford Office of Government Affairs (OGA).