Julie Platt

Julie Beren Platt (born 1957) is an American banker and philanthropist who has served as the chair of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Federations of North America since 2022. She is the second woman to serve as the chair for the organization, which oversees 146 Jewish federations across the United States that distribute over $3 billion each year. Personal life Platt was born to Joan Schiff Beren, a noted philanthropist to Jewish causes, and grew up in Wichita, Kansas, the only Jew in her public school class of about 700 students. She matriculated at the University of Pennsylvania, where in her first week on campus she met her future husband Marc Platt. After earning her bachelor's degree, she worked as a commercial banker at the now-defunct Bankers Trust in New York City. She and her husband moved to Los Angeles, California. Platt and her husband have five children, including actor Ben Platt. Platt was one of the first signees of the Jewish Future Pledge, a charitable campaign modeled after The Giving Pledge to encourage American Jews to designate at least 50% of their charitable giving to Jewish- or Israel-related causes.