Kathleen Kelly Janus is an award-winning social entrepreneur, author and lecturer at Stanford University. As an expert on philanthropy, millennial engagement and scaling early stage organizations, her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Tech Crunch and the San Francisco Chronicle. Based in the heart of the Silicon Valley, she is currently writing a book about best practices for early stage nonprofit organizations based on a four-year research project surveying and interviewing hundreds of social innovators.
An attorney, Kathleen has spearheaded numerous social justice initiatives. Kathleen is a co-founder of Spark, a nonprofit focused on building a community of young, global citizens promoting gender equality. Since its founding in 2004, Spark has engaged more than 10,000 young professionals nationwide and raised more than $1.5 million to support grassroots women’s organizations. In 2007, Kathleen was named Young Nonprofit Professionals’ Board Leader of the Year for her work with Spark. She currently sits on Spark’s Board of Advisors.
From 2007 to 2011, Kathleen helped launch and direct Stanford Law School’s international human rights clinics in Namibia and South Africa, supervising Stanford students on fieldwork projects related to HIV/AIDS, water rights and rural women’s issues. Kathleen lectures widely human rights and has taught courses at Stanford Law School, Berkeley Law School, Santa Clara Law School and the University of San Francisco Masters of Arts International Studies Program.
From 2009 to 2011, Kathleen also served as Pro Bono Counsel at Covington and Burling, LLP, responsible for connecting the firm’s attorney’s with underserved California communities and Bay Area legal services organizations.
As an Executive Member of the Northern California Board Committee for Human Rights Watch, from 2011 to 2014 Kathleen served three years as Co-Chair of HRW’s Voices for Justice Dinner, which raises $3 million annually for the organization. Additionally, she is Chair of the Board of Directors of Accountability Counsel, has sat on the Board of Advisors for the Human Rights Center at U.C. Berkeley and the Boalt Hall Alumni Association Board of Directors, and informally advises a variety of other nonprofits and social entrepreneurs locally and globally. In 2014 she received the Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen SV2 Social Impact Award for her commitment to philanthropy.
A graduate of Berkeley Law School, Kathleen also graduated with highest honors from U.C. Berkeley with degrees in Political Science and Spanish. She lives in San Francisco with her husband Ted. Kathleen is a certified yoga instructor, which comes in handy when juggling her three children under the age of five.
An attorney, Kathleen has spearheaded numerous social justice initiatives. Kathleen is a co-founder of Spark, a nonprofit focused on building a community of young, global citizens promoting gender equality. Since its founding in 2004, Spark has engaged more than 10,000 young professionals nationwide and raised more than $1.5 million to support grassroots women’s organizations. In 2007, Kathleen was named Young Nonprofit Professionals’ Board Leader of the Year for her work with Spark. She currently sits on Spark’s Board of Advisors.
From 2007 to 2011, Kathleen helped launch and direct Stanford Law School’s international human rights clinics in Namibia and South Africa, supervising Stanford students on fieldwork projects related to HIV/AIDS, water rights and rural women’s issues. Kathleen lectures widely human rights and has taught courses at Stanford Law School, Berkeley Law School, Santa Clara Law School and the University of San Francisco Masters of Arts International Studies Program.
From 2009 to 2011, Kathleen also served as Pro Bono Counsel at Covington and Burling, LLP, responsible for connecting the firm’s attorney’s with underserved California communities and Bay Area legal services organizations.
As an Executive Member of the Northern California Board Committee for Human Rights Watch, from 2011 to 2014 Kathleen served three years as Co-Chair of HRW’s Voices for Justice Dinner, which raises $3 million annually for the organization. Additionally, she is Chair of the Board of Directors of Accountability Counsel, has sat on the Board of Advisors for the Human Rights Center at U.C. Berkeley and the Boalt Hall Alumni Association Board of Directors, and informally advises a variety of other nonprofits and social entrepreneurs locally and globally. In 2014 she received the Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen SV2 Social Impact Award for her commitment to philanthropy.
A graduate of Berkeley Law School, Kathleen also graduated with highest honors from U.C. Berkeley with degrees in Political Science and Spanish. She lives in San Francisco with her husband Ted. Kathleen is a certified yoga instructor, which comes in handy when juggling her three children under the age of five.
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