Joanna Ware, Founding Executive Director (Jewish Liberation Fund)

Joanna (Jo) Ware (she/her) is the Founding Executive Director of the Jewish Liberation Fund. As an organizer, facilitator, and educator, she has spent over 15 years working with organizations – inside and outside of the Jewish world – to bring forth a more just, whole, and liberatory world. Joanna has worked as a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) consultant, Adaptive Leadership teacher and practitioner, community organizer, and popular educator at the intersections of identity, power, leadership, and social justice. For many years, she worked for LGBTQ equality in the Jewish community, as a core member of Keshet’s program team.