Regina Sassoon Friedland

Regina Sassoon Friedland has been director of AJC Seattle since 2017. Under her visionary leadership, the organization has significantly grown its presence and impact in the region. She regularly engages with elected officials and foreign diplomats on areas of interest to the Jewish community and with interfaith and intergroup representatives to advance matters of shared concern. Through features in an array of media outlets and as a guest speaker in the Jewish and general communities, Regina brings a deeper understanding of Israel, the Middle East and antisemitism.

A fifth generation Seattleite, Friedland is a past trustee of the Northwest Yeshiva High School and a past trustee of the Seattle Hebrew Academy, and chaired the development committees of both institutions. Regina is a member of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition’s Washington Advisory Committee, Sephardic Study Advisory Committee of JIMENA – Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa, the University of Washington’s Stroum Center for Jewish Studies Advisory Board. She earned a degree in Journalism from the University of Washington’s Department of Communication and a degree from the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies with an emphasis on Jewish Studies.  

You can contact Regina or the AJC Seattle office at seattle@ajc.org.