Nancy K. Kaufman (she/her) is a Senior Advisor with SRE Network, with a focus on engaging and empowering senior-level and mid-level Jewish women professionals. She previously served on the founding Advisory Board of SRE Network. Nancy has had a distinguished career as a public servant, advocate, and non-profit leader, and runs a strategic consulting and coaching practice serving nonprofit organizational leaders.
Nancy previously served for eight years as the CEO of National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), and prior to that served as the executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of Boston for twenty years, where she led the social justice, Israel advocacy, and governmental affairs agendas for Boston’s Jewish Federation and its agencies. Nancy has also held a variety of positions related to health and human services delivery in state and local government and in the nonprofit sector. She worked for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as Deputy Director of the Governor’s Social Policy Office, Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Deputy Commissioner of the Welfare Department. At age 27, she was the founding executive director of a community action agency north of Boston. Kaufman was a founding board member of the Jewish Organizing Initiative (now JOIN for Justice) and the Jewish Social Justice Roundtable. Kaufman has a certificate in executive coaching from Presence-Based Coaching, an ICF accredited coaching program. She is an active member of the Adaptive Leadership Network and currently serves as board chair of the NY Jewish Agenda.
Kaufman is a graduate of Brandeis University, received an MSW in community organization and social planning from Boston College School of Social Work, and a mid-career MPA from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Among other honors, she is a recipient of an honorary doctorate in public service from Northeastern University. She received the Alumni Achievement Award (1987) and the Bernard Reisman Award for professional excellence (2011) from Brandeis University and the Albert C. Chernin award from the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (2019). She was recognized four times as a “Forward 50” outstanding Jewish leader. In January 2022, she was appointed by President Biden to the Commission on the Preservation of American Heritage Abroad.
