The Wexner Foundation
Erica Brown currently serves as Vice Provost and Director of the Sacks-Herenstein Center for Values and Leadership at Yeshiva University since January 2022. Additionally, Erica holds positions as a Community Scholar at Congregation Etz Chaim, Consulting Editor for Tradition Journal, and has been a Wexner Foundation Faculty Member since 1996. Previous roles include Director of the Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and Leadership at The George Washington University and Scholar-in-Residence & Managing Director at The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington. Early career experience includes serving as Scholar-in-Residence at CJP - Combined Jewish Philanthropies. Erica's education includes a Ph.D. and multiple master's degrees in Jewish/Judaic Studies from Baltimore Hebrew University, in addition to a master's degree in Education from the Institute of Education, University of London, and a bachelor's degree from Yeshiva University.
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The Wexner Foundation
Guided by the vision of Abigail and Leslie Wexner, The Wexner Foundation focuses on the development of Jewish professional and volunteer leaders in North America and public sector leaders in Israel. In the early 1980’s Les Wexner reached the conclusion that what the Jewish community and Israel needed most was stronger leaders. When established Jewish organizations showed relatively little interest in investing in the development of leaders, Les decided to take up the mission with his private philanthropy. Originally Les founded two separate organizations to pursue this mission: The Wexner Heritage Foundation created the Wexner Heritage Program to strengthen volunteer leaders; and the Wexner Foundation created the Wexner Graduate Fellowship, for emerging professional Jewish leaders, and the Wexner Israel Fellowship, for mid-career Israeli public officials. In the 1990s Abigail Wexner joined Les in charting the Wexner philanthropic vision in their roles as chairmen. In 2003 the two foundations merged, and since then The Wexner Foundation has run all three programs as a unified organization under Abigail and Les’s leadership. The Foundation has also added new programs to expand upon its mission of strengthening Jewish leaders. Since 2013 The Wexner Foundation has launched four additional programs: Wexner Service Corps (2013), Wexner Field Fellowship (2013), Wexner Senior Leaders (2014) and The Wexner Summits (2015).