Anna Wang is the Associate Dean for Public Service and Public Interest Law, which includes overseeing the staff of the John and Terry Levin Center for Public Service and Public Interest Law (the Levin Center). Before this role, Anna was the executive director of the Levin Center from 2009 to 2023 and a founding staff member of the Levin Center. She first joined Stanford Law School in 2004 as the second member of the two-person public interest program in the Office of Career Services.

For most of her career, Anna has focused on building a robust pipeline to grow the public interest legal community, which includes introducing students to public service careers, connecting students to mentors, helping young lawyers identify professional goals that align with their personal values, and teaching them how to navigate the market. She developed and continues to refine many of the Levin Center’s programs, works closely with the Dean and other members of the senior leadership team, engages in external relations and fundraising, and provides individual career advising to law students and alumni.

Prior to joining SLS, Anna served as the first Executive Director of Vision New America, a nonprofit organization dedicated to civic leadership development in Silicon Valley. Under her leadership, she transformed the organization from an all-volunteer entity to a thriving organization with robust nonpartisan voter education and registration efforts, leadership training programs, and a highly successful public policy internship program targeting high school and college students. Moreover, as the only full-time employee during her nearly three year tenure, Anna handled a wide array of tasks, including program design and implementation, community outreach, grant writing, newsletter design and publication, website development, media relations, strategic planning, major event planning, and volunteer recruitment.

Anna earned her BA with honors from UCLA and a JD from UC Berkeley School of Law. She is a member of the California Bar. Anna serves on the Board of Directors of Chinese for Affirmative Action, a nonprofit in San Francisco that works to strengthen and sustain a progressive Asian and Pacific American movement through community organizing and policy advocacy. She previously served as a co-chair and member of the Stanford University Board on Conduct Affairs (previously known as the Board on Judicial Affairs) from 2017-2023. Anna has also mentored undergraduate students with the University’s Asian American Activities Center (A³C) and the Haas Center for Public Service for many years.

Both the Class of 2017 and the Class of 2021 honored Anna with the Stanford Law School Staff Appreciation Award, given by the graduating class to the staff member “who has played an integral role” in their lives.

Alumni and law students can reach out to talk to Anna about general career planning, government career paths (local, state, or federal), criminal prosecution or defense, private public interest law firms, nonprofit management, postgraduate fellowships and other entry-level career searches, transitions between substantive areas or between sectors, SLS’ Loan Repayment Assistance Program, and exploring secondary markets beyond SF, DC, NYC, and LA.

In her free time, Anna enjoys trying new restaurants (especially street food like shengjian bao (Chinese), pani puri (Indian), and bolani (Afghan), all of which are easy to find in the Bay Area), watching Chinese and Korean dramas, traveling (we pick our destinations based on the food!), and hanging out at home in semi-rural Sunol with her family and their adopted chocolate Labrador, Duke.