Jenna Weinberg, NIF Board Member

Jenna Weinberg has been an active leader with the New Israel Fund since 2012 and a Board Member since 2015. She is currently an Investment Director at Cambridge Associates, where she advises institutions and families to build investment portfolios that meet financial and impact objectives. Previously Jenna was Vice President of CHV, a social impact consulting firm, where she advanced quality jobs and access to benefits for domestic workers, trained community organizers across Israel, fought white nationalism and antisemitism, and more.

In addition to leadership with NIF, Jenna is a trustee of the Nathan and Lillian Weinberg Family Foundation and a founding board member of the Abrahamic House. Previously, Jenna served on the boards of Slingshot, MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, and Hillel International. Jenna is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where she majored in International Studies and Judaic studies, and of the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, where she received her MBA. She was a recipient of a Dorot Fellowship in Israel in 2013-2014.

Daniel Sokatch, NIF CEO

Daniel Sokatch has served as the CEO of the New Israel Fund since 2009. During the past decade of extraordinary challenges, NIF has risen to new heights as the great defender of justice, democracy and equality in Israel.

Before joining NIF, Daniel served as the CEO of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties. Prior to his tenure at the Federation, he was founding Executive Director of the Progressive Jewish Alliance (now Bend the Arc). In recognition of his leadership, Daniel has been named multiple times to the Forward newspaper’s “Forward 50,” an annual list of the fifty leading Jewish decision-makers and opinion-shapers. He has contributed articles to leading newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Washington Post, the Forward and Haaretz, and is the author of the book, Can We Talk About Israel: A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted (Bloomsbury, 2021). Daniel holds an MA from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, a JD from Boston College Law School, and a BA from Brandeis University. He is married, is father to two daughters, and resides in San Francisco.