The Koret Foundation and the Koret Fund are private philanthropic organizations run by independent boards of directors
Susan Wolfe, Director of Public Affairs
and Communications
Susan Wolfe, an award-winning author and community leader, is Director of Grantmaking Programs and Communications for the Koret Foundation. She holds a degree in communication from Stanford University and was in the first cohort of the esteemed Wexner Heritage Foundation fellows in the Bay Area.
After a career in newspaper and television reporting, Susan served as assistant director of the Stanford Centennial Celebration, responsible for marketing and communications. Her professional honors include an award for her television public service campaign for the Stanford Centennial and, for one of her books, the national Kathryn D. Hansen Publication Award. Among her other published books, “From the Ground Up: Building Silicon Valley” was published in 2002 by Stanford University Press.
Susan serves on the board of directors of Jewish Family & Life!, a national media organization; and is vice president of the Women's Alliance of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties. She has been a leader at Congregation Beth Am, where she served on the board of directors for six years, and as vice president for three, chairing many committees and events. Among her other community work, her past service includes the board of directors of the J (formerly the Jewish Bulletin of Northern California), the Albert L. Schultz Jewish Community Center, the Stanford Historical Society, and Stanford Hillel, among others. Among her volunteer awards are the Jewish Community Center Association of North America's New Leadership Award and the Albert L. Schultz JCC's Young Leadership Award.