The former House speaker, who is retiring from Congress after nearly 40 years, will even help teach a course. 🎓 WASHINGTON ― Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) may be leaving Congress this year, but the 86-year-old decades-long representative of San Francisco is simply entering the next chapter of her career: launching a nonpartisan democracy institute at UC Berkeley. Opening in January, the Nancy Pelosi Institute for Representative Democracy will be a “new epicenter for research,