Deputy Regional Director, South
Emily Gilgoff joins J Street as Deputy Regional Director for the South, bringing a wealth of experience in community engagement and advocacy to the role. Previously, Emily served as the Assistant Regional Director at the ADL Washington DC Regional Office focusing on incident response to hate crimes and bias-motivated incidents. Prior to her work in incident response, Emily spent five years at the Embassy of Israel as the Director of Civil Society Affairs, where she specialized in coalition building. Emily began her career as the Young Adult Community Coordinator at the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati. She holds a Bachelors of Communication Studies at Ohio University and a Certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.