Terry Nagel is a veteran journalist who served as an editor at the San Mateo Times and the San Francisco Chronicle, as assistant managing editor of Forbes ASAP magazine, as managing editor of Great Schools.net and Encore.org, and as communications officer for the Skoll Foundation. Prior to coming to Stanford Law School, she was communications manager for the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. She was elected to the Burlingame City Council in 2003, 2007 and 2011 and served three terms as mayor.