Diane Troderman

Diane Troderman, Chair of JESNA (Jewish Education Service of North America) has held numerous leadership roles in the Jewish community on local, national and international levels.  In addition to her passionate interest in Jewish education, she has worked actively on women's issues and in the renaissance and renewal of Jewish life throughout the world, especially in the Former Soviet Union.  She was the first chair of The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, whose mission is to develop fresh ways of thinking about Jews and gender worldwide.

Diane serves on the boards of the American Jewish World Service, BBYO, and The Jewish Funders Network. Together with her husband Harold Grinspoon, she is a partner in the PEJE collaborative and the Board of Governors for National Hillel.  From 1993 to 1998 she helped establish and direct the Harold Grinspoon Foundation.  Between Harold and Diane they have six children and ten grandchildren.