Jill Iscol

Activist, Educator and Author, Jill Iscol, EdD, is President of the IF Hummingbird Foundation, a family foundation established in 1989. For the past two decades Jill has supported and participated in numerous organizations enabling them to become stable, sustainable and successful, impacting lives around the globe. Jill’s current endeavor, the Hearts on Fire Visionary Program launched following the release of her nonfiction book, Hearts on Fire: Stories of Today’s Visionaries Igniting Idealism into Actionhttp://www.heartsonfire.org/the-book, puts the spotlight on inspiring leaders and the work they are doing to improve the lives of others. The program’s mission - to inspire people of all walks of life to join the social change movement. Jill is a member of the Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau and has appeared on MSNBC Andrea Mitchell Reports, PBS’ To The Contrary, at the Milken Institute, TedXWomen and SXSW. Her articles have been published in education journals, on The Huffington Post and The Diplomatic Courier. She been honored by City Year New York, Women’s Campaign International, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center and was inducted into the Hewlett-Woodmere Alumni Association Hall of Fame in 2015. As a Democratic Party activist, Jill served as Co-Chair for Hillary Rodham Clinton for Senate’s New York Finance Committee, National Vice-Chair of Hillary Rodham Clinton for President’s 2008 Finance Committee and is currently a member of the Hillary for President’s 2016 Finance Committee. Jill received her doctorate from Teachers College at Columbia University, a Master of Philosophy in Sociology from Yale and a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from University of Pittsburgh . Jill is a born and bred New Yorker. She is married and has two adult children.