Jill is a donor activist and President of the IF Hummingbird Foundation established by the Iscols in 1989. A family foundation, its mission is to support domestic and global efforts that strengthen democracy and reduce the social justice, economic and educational inequities that threaten it. Jill currently serves on the Boards of the Bank Street College of Education, Facing History and Ourselves, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Fine Arts at Cornell University, Vital Voices and Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. She is also Co-Chair of the Advisory Board of City Year New York, on the President’s Council of Teachers College at Columbia University, on the Advisory Board of the Iscol Family Program for Leadership Development at Cornell University and is an Advisory Council member of Acumen Fund, a start-up global philanthropic organization. Jill chaired the Annual Family Reunion Conference in Tennessee (co-sponsored by the Children, Youth and Family Consortium of the University of Minnesota and the Child and Family Policy Center at Vanderbilt University) from 1997-1999. Vice President Al Gore and Tipper Gore moderated the Conference. In 2000, Jill was a Co-Chair of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Finance Committee, which raised a record 29 million dollars. She also recently served as a Vice Chair of Senator Clinton’s 2006 Senate Finance Committee and is currently on the finance team for Senator Clinton’s Presidential Campaign. Jill has also been a panelist for a number of conferences on philanthropy and completed the Rockefeller Foundation’s year-long course of study, The Philanthropy Workshop, in June 2002. Subsequently, she joined other workshop participants in a collaborative funding, which supports women’s leadership, civil society and reform in Pakistan and Iran. Most recently, Jill and her husband, Ken, launched the Iscol African Women’s Capacity Building Fund in partnership with Vital Voices, a leadership initiative for women and girls. Jill received her doctorate from Teachers College at Columbia University, and a Master of Philosophy in Sociology from Yale.

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