Judi Feniger
Executive Director
Judi Feniger leads this regional cultural center dedicated to diversity and tolerance, cultural identity and heritage, Cleveland history and the arts. She directs strategy, planning, outreach and operations, and works with staff, trustees, volunteers and the community to develop and expand programs, exhibitions and educational offerings.
Under her leadership, the Museum has hosted a lively and varied program of exhibitions, fostered relationships with diverse groups, formed wide-ranging collaborations, improved financial management and increased community use of the Museum. Some recent initiatives include Women & Spirit, an interreligious collaboration; About the Right of Being Different in partnership with the Progressive Corporation; and Stop the Hate: Youth Speak Out!, a student essay contest that generated 5,000 entries in its first three years. The Museum has received an SBN Customer Excellence Award and was named a COSE Top Ten under 10.
Ms. Feniger has more than 25 years of business experience, both for-profit and non-profit. Prior to joining the Museum in 2006, she was Chief Public Support Officer of the American Red Cross, Greater Cleveland Chapter, General Manager of Bozell Worldwide/Cleveland, and President of Proconsul Public Relations.
Ms. Feniger chairs the Greater Cleveland Partnership Public Affairs Committee, and is on the Boards of Trustees of the City Club of Cleveland and the Cleveland Council on World Affairs. She serves on the Notre Dame College Abrahamic Center Leadership Council, Western Reserve Historical Society Jewish Archive Committee and the Advisory Board of the Hiram College Center for Engaged Ethics. She is a past member of the Cleveland Jewish News Board and Executive Committee, past Board Chair of Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity and of Sales and Marketing Executives of Cleveland, and a member of the Leadership Cleveland Class of 2003.
Ms. Feniger has a bachelor’s degree in business management from Notre Dame College. She has received the YWCA Women of Achievement Award, the SBN Visionary Award, a Lighthouse Award for lifetime achievement from Public Relations Society of America, a CEO Award from the American Red Cross, and was named a Crain’s Cleveland Business Woman of Influence.