Wednesday, November 3, 2:10 – 3:00 pm ET, SLB 121
Please join Dean Heather Gerken in a panel discussion featuring Tom Bernstein '77, Chair of the Board of Directors of The Partnership for Public Service, Max Stier, the President and CEO and Laura Pietrantoni ’21. Since 2001, the Partnership has worked to make the federal government more efficient, innovative, and better at serving the public. It has grown to be a sustainable organization with a substantial budget and a robust staff dedicated to this purpose. Panelists will also share an exciting new YLS two-year post-graduate fellowship opportunity with the organization. Snacks/coffee will be available to take after the program.

Panelist Bios:

Tom A. Bernstein '77 is president and co-founder of Chelsea Piers, L.P., formed in 1992 to develop and operate the Chelsea Piers Sports and Entertainment Complex, a 30-acre waterfront sports village located between 17th and 23rd Streets along Manhattan’s Hudson River. He is also co-chairman of Chelsea Piers Connecticut, a 450,000-square-foot sports facility, which opened in Stamford, Connecticut in July 2012 and Chelsea Piers Fitness, the company’s first stand-alone fitness club in downtown Brooklyn which was founded in 2018. Over the past 30 years, Bernstein has taken a leadership role in several organizations focusing on global human rights and citizen service. He is the chair of the Partnership for Public Service and co-chair emeritus of Human Rights First. Since 2010, Bernstein has served as chairman of the board of directors of Cities of Service, appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He is also the chairman of the Human Freedom Advisory Council of the George W. Bush Presidential Center. In 2002, President Bush appointed Bernstein to the board of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., where he served as board chair from 2010 to 2017, appointed by President Obama. Bernstein now serves as chairman emeritus.

Max Stier is the founding president and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service. Under his leadership, the Partnership has been widely praised as a first-class nonprofit organization and thought leader on federal government management issues.  Max has worked previously in all three branches of the federal government. In 1982, he served on the personal staff of Congressman Jim Leach. Max clerked for Chief Judge James Oakes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1992 and clerked for Justice David Souter of the United States Supreme Court in 1994. Between these two positions, Max served as Special Litigation Counsel to Assistant Attorney General Anne Bingaman at the Department of Justice. In 1995, Max joined the law firm of Williams & Connolly where he practiced primarily in the area of white collar defense. Max comes most recently from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, having served as the Deputy General Counsel for Litigation. A graduate of Yale University and Stanford Law School, Max is a member of the National Academy of Public Administration, the Administrative Conference of the United States and the National Advisory Board for Public Service at Harvard College.

Laura Pietrantoni '21 recently received her law degree from Yale where she was a member of the Yale Law and Policy Review, President of the Latinx Law Students Association, and a member of the Rule of Law Clinic's democracy work team. She was a summer associate at Covington in 2020, and a Summer Legal Intern at Campaign Legal Center in 2019. Prior to law school, she was Government Affairs Associate Manager with the Partnership for Public Service. Laura received her undergraduate degree in 2016 from Stanford.