Joy Sisisky

President & Chief Executive Officer, Jewish Federation Bay Area

Joy Sisisky has served the Jewish community for twenty-five years, dedicated to advancing philanthropy, social justice and women’s issues. Known as a thought-leader and innovator in progressive Jewish philanthropy, Joy is President & CEO of the Jewish Federation Bay Area; previously, she was Chief Philanthropy Officer. In the last ten years, Joy has stewarded more than $2 billion in philanthropic capital through the Federation, one of the largest community foundations in the country with more than $2.6 billion in assets. Joy was the fifth woman to ever serve as chief executive at any large-city Federation in North America in the last one hundred years. Joy lived and worked in Ukraine and Ethiopia as a former JDC Ralph Goldman Fellow and continues to serve on the Board. She attended Brandeis University and earned dual-master’s degrees from USC and HUC where she recently received an honorary doctorate in recognition of her longstanding work.