Margot Pritzker

Margot Pritzker is chair of the Zohar Education Project Incorporated, established in 1995 to translate the Zohar, the mystical canon of Judaism, into English. This 20-year,12-volume project was completed in 2017. Oversight of this project continues today as the Zohar translation meets the digital world.

Pritzker was the founder and president of WomenOnCall.org, an online meeting place for skills-based volunteering. WomenOnCall successfully merged with Chicago Cares in 2018.

Pritzker is a Trustee of the Aspen Institute, where she chairs the Leadership Programs Committee, and is a seminar moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Margot is a member of the Board of Directors for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and is a member of the Advisory Board of America Abroad Media.

Pritzker is a Director of the Urban Growers Collective whose mission is to support vulnerable neighborhoods by developing community-based food systems. Margot is co-founder of a startup called the Food Resource Navigator that will become a collaborative hub and useful tool for growers in the Chicago region. This exciting project has a social justice and racial equity lens and is being co-created with the communities it intends to serve.

Margot and her husband, Thomas J. Pritzker, direct The Pritzker Architecture Prize which is considered the profession’s highest honor.

Margot and Tom reside in Chicago, they have three sons and four grandchildren. Their extensive travel and knowledge of South Asia has resulted in one of the foremost collections of South Asian art. Margot holds a B.A. from Northwestern University and an M.A. from the University of Chicago.