Stacey Aviva Clark

Director of Education and Community Engagement, Jewish Federations of North America

Stacey Aviva Clark is a public speaker, Jewish educator, Urban Planner, and philanthropist. She serves as the Director of Education and Community Engagement for Jewish Federations’ Center for Jewish belonging and is a faculty lecturer and PhD student at Gratz College's Department of Antisemitism Studies. Stacey-Aviva’s core areas of focus over her 25-year career are combating racism and antisemitism, Black/Jewish Relations, and strategic planning/capacity building around cultures of Belonging and Jews of Color. Stacey-Aviva is passionate about shared humanity and the histories of self-determination movements of Black and Jewish communities. 

Stacey-Aviva’s professional career began as the Policy Director for Chicago's Jewish Council on Urban Affairs (JCUA), combating racism and antisemitism and advocating for housing reform, criminal justice, immigration reform, and Jewish/Black American dialogue. Stacey-Aviva spent over a decade specializing in urban economic development overseeing the construction and financing of Affordable Housing, mixed-use spaces, Brownfield Redevelopment, and New Market Tax Credit financing in minority communities.  She has designed engagement strategies for synagogues, and Jewish educational and civic institutions. She is a nationally sought-after speaker, and her writings have been featured in The Forward and her blog at the Times of Israel, and her Eli Talk, Kahal Amim-Many Faces, One Community, has been viewed 2,000 times.