Jacob Feinspan is the Executive Director of Jews United for Justice, which advances economic, racial, and social justice in Maryland, DC, and Virginia by educating and mobilizing our local Jewish communities to action. In his eighteen years at the helm, JUFJ has grown from a staff of two to a team of two dozen and is now a key change-making institution in the region. In recent years, JUFJ has led campaigns to win paid family and medical leave for millions of workers in DC & Maryland, played a key role in winning major policing reforms and protections for renters in Maryland, and new funding for early childhood education in DC.

Jacob is a co-chair of the Working Families Party and serves on the Leadership Team of the Jewish Social Justice Roundtable. He also chairs the Collaborative for Jewish Organizing, a network of nine Jewish organizations working on the ground in 16 states and the District of Columbia. Before joining JUFJ, Jacob founded the advocacy program at American Jewish World Service and coordinated anti-poverty advocacy and grant-making at the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. He is a graduate of the Wexner Field Fellowship. Jacob lives with his family in Silver Spring, MD.

Jacob uses he/him/his pronouns.