Joel Schwitzer

Joel Schwitzer has worked in Jewish nonprofit management and fundraising for nearly 30 years. He joined AJC in 2015 and leads the Dallas Regional Office, which covers North and Central Texas as well as Oklahoma. In that capacity, Joel guides the advocacy, leadership development and fundraising efforts for AJC throughout the region. He has provided testimony on family separation to the Texas Mexican American Legislative Caucus, worked to build several diverse coalitions including the Community of Conscience, Jewish/Latino Alliance and DFW Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council. He is a prolific op ed writer, with columns published in The Dallas Morning News, Austin American Statesman, Fort Worth Star Telegram and Texas Jewish Post.

Prior to joining AJC, Joel spent time providing professional leadership to numerous Jewish organizations, including Hillel, the Jewish Federations of Dallas and Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and the Anti-Defamation League. He holds B.A. in psychology from the University of Arizona. Joel serves on the Texas Advisory Committee of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition; is part of the Texas Holocaust and Antisemitism Advisory Commission speakers bureau and He serves on the Board of the DFW Airport Interfaith Advisory Council and on the Interfaith Task Force of Texas Representative Salman Bhojani. Previously, he served as Chair of the Leadership and Communications Subcommittee of the City of Dallas Task Force on Welcoming Communities and Immigrant  Affairs. In 2009, Joel was named one of Champaign-Urbana’s 40 under 40 by Central Illinois Business magazine. He is married to Beri, Executive Director of the Dallas Jewish Historical Society. They are parents of identical twins Chana and Miryam.