Joyce S. Dubensky

Joyce S. Dubensky, Esq. Executive Vice President & CEO Before joining Tanenbaum, Ms. Dubensky was with the National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ), as  the national Director of Communications and, later, Deputy Executive Director of a regional office.  Ms. Dubensky also served as a National Consultant for the Council of Jewish Federations (now United Jewish Communities) and created the Legal Department at the United Jewish Appeal- Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, where she served as General Counsel for over ten years.  Ms. Dubensky holds her J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she graduated with honors, and has a Master’s degree in American History from Adelphi University.

                             
Joyce S. Dubensky is Executive Vice President and CEO of the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding, which creates practical programs that address unresolved tensions in religiously-diverse workplaces, schools, the health care sector, and areas of armed conflict. She co-authored and assembled Peacemakers in Action: Profiles in Religious Conflict Resolution (2007), and led development of COEXIST, a complementary high school conflict resolution curriculum. Before joining Tanenbaum, Dubensky was Deputy Director with the New York Region of the National Conference for Community and Justice (formerly the National Conference of Christians and Jews) after serving as national Director of Marketing and Communications. She served as General Counsel with the United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York and was a participant in the 2008 Alliance of Civilizations forum in Madrid. Dubensky holds her JD from New York University School of Law and a Master’s degree from Adelphi University.