Dan oversees the Jewish Community Relations Council, the umbrella body for more than 40 Chicago-area Jewish organizations, and operates as JUF’s community relations division. He also leads the Government Affairs department, whose mission is to promote public policies and legislation at all levels of government that support the health and human services provided by JUF’s network of affiliated agencies. This includes enhancing the interests of the Jewish community both domestically and overseas, building and strengthening relationships with elected and appointed government officials, and educating and engaging the Jewish community in public policy advocacy.

Among his proudest JUF accomplishments is leading a trip to Israel in 2019 with ten Latinx leaders. There they met with Israeli elected officials, scholars, military leaders, and average citizens, a member of the Palestinian Authority’s senior leadership and a Palestinian teacher from Hebron. Dan reflected that each person on the trip came back with a better understanding and deeper appreciation for Israel as a Jewish state, and closer ties to JUF and Chicago’s Jewish community.

Dan joined JUF in August 2018 after working as Midwest Regional Director and Deputy Director at AIPAC. Prior to that, Dan was the Midwest Executive Director for Israel Bonds and a litigator and consultant at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Navigant Consulting and Alix Partners.

Dan graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1994 and from Northwestern University’s School of Law in 2000.