Emily Muskovitz Sweet is a veteran social impact leader with over 25 years of experience driving positive change in the nonprofit, philanthropic, government, and corporate social impact sectors.

In her current role as Chief Impact Officer at JUF, Emily leads the Planning and Allocations Department, which is responsible for identifying ongoing community needs, setting funding priorities, and allocating communal resources locally, nationally, and internationally.

Prior to joining JUF, Emily was most recently Vice President of Social Impact at OpenComp, where she established and led OPEN Imperative (Organizations for Pay Equity Now), a coalition of 400+ CEOs, investors, and business leaders dedicated to closing their gender pay gaps. Emily also served as the Director of Strategic & External Affairs at the Lefkofsky Family Foundation, where she developed and managed the family’s philanthropic and political giving strategy and grantmaking portfolio.

Emily has held previous leadership roles at JUF, including serving as Executive Director of the Public Affairs Department— where she led government relations, advocacy, and inter-faith coalitions— and was Executive Director of the Jewish Women’s Foundation of Chicago. She began her career working to address gender-based violence at a domestic violence shelter program and then as the Project Director for the City of Chicago Mayor’s Office on Domestic Violence.

Emily is a national Vice President of the National Council of Jewish Women, a 130-year-old civil rights organization. She was a 2013 Leadership Greater Chicago Fellow and past recipient of the Jewish Federation of Chicago’s Samuel A. Goldsmith Award. Emily was a featured speaker at the 2023 White House Business Roundtable on Pay Equity, and is a frequent speaker, writer, and podcast guest on philanthropy, social impact, and gender equity. She received her undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis, and her Masters degree in Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago, where she was a McCormick Tribune Fellow. Emily lives in Chicago with her husband and two daughters.