Nancy Pelosi names UC Berkeley institute for representative democracy

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will name a new institute at the University of California at Berkeley after her retirement from Congress, and the school announced Monday that it has already raised $35 million toward a $50 million goal for the center, which will focus on representative democracy and public leadership.

Nancy Pelosi Representative Democracy Institute, or NPI, Opening in January 2027 It will serve as a center for research, teaching and civic engagement as Pelosi prepares to leave Congress, according to the university. The institute will also allow Pelosi, the first elected speaker of the House of Representatives in California, to give a course on Congress.

According to UC Berkeley, a university known as a bastion of progressive activism, the institute will focus on four areas: strengthening American democracy, addressing major social, economic and environmental challenges, promoting human and civil rights, and “ensuring political leadership that represents the full spectrum of perspectives and backgrounds in California and the country.”

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The university said locating the institute at UC Berkeley will make its programs accessible to a diverse student body, including many first-generation and low-income students, and offer future public leaders opportunities typically associated with Ivy League schools.

“The work of democracy is never done, and securing its future is our greatest duty,” Pelosi said in a statement. he said. “UC Berkeley has a long and proud history of challenging the status quo and educating leaders who take on the greatest challenges of our time. I am honored to partner with this extraordinary community of faculty and students to equip future generations with the tools they need to strengthen our democratic institutions and build a future that serves the public good.”

UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons said in a statement that the institute’s purpose “will be defined and strengthened by Berkeley’s ability to connect world-class faculty and exceptional students and our commitment to advancing the greater good as the nation’s leading public university.”

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Nancy Pelosi speaks onstage during the 2025 Concordia Annual Summit at the Sheraton New York Times Square on September 23, 2025 in New York City. (Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Concordia Annual Summit)

“We aim to do more than just study democracy; we are building this institute to strengthen it,” he added.

Fox News Digital has reached out to UC Berkeley for further comment.

Pelosi, 86, served twice for four years as the first and so far only female speaker of the House of Representatives. The first was from 2007 to 2011, covering the end and beginning of the Bush and Obama administrations, and the second was from 2019 to 2023.

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Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) tears up a speech following President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Feb. 4, 2020. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)

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