Staff & Board
Renée Wizig-Barrios
President & CEO
Renée Wizig-Barrios is President & CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston. She serves as Federation’s lead ambassador as she works to fulfill the Federation’s core role as the connector, innovator, convener, and funder of the Jewish community.
A native Houstonian, Wizig-Barrios joined the Federation in 2021 after more than two and a half decades rising through leadership positions in Texas nonprofits. Most recently, she served as the Senior Vice President & Chief Philanthropy Officer for the Greater Houston Community Foundation (GHCF).
Board of Trustees
Robert Shoss
Board Chair
Lauren Kaufman Blachman
Vice Chair. Special Projects
Eric Danziger
Secretary/Treasurer
Debbie Karakowsky
Vice Chair, Planning
Mike Levy
Vice Chair, Development
Leah Abrams
Ali Bamberger
Martha Barvin
Susan Bono
Hilary Cohen
Riva Collins, M.D
Grant Dorfman
Mike Drob
Jared Dubin
Howard Feldman
Jen Fink
Sandra Finkelman
Tom Fish
Arin Freedman
Esther Freedman
Nicole Nathan Gibson
Dori Goldman
Stacy Soefer Gomar
David Harris
Rabbi Oren Hayon
Elyse Spector Kalmans
Joe Kaplan
Norri Leder
Bruce Levy
Rachael Levy
Melanie Lowther
Oren Mushin
Hy Penn
Yakov Polatsek
Joe Pryzant
Ellen Toomim Robinson
Ann Baker Ronn
Ben Samuels
Lindsay Schmulen
Rima Soroka
Matt Stein
Robin T. Stein
Jill Talisman
Philip Tenenbaum
Mark Trachtenberg
Benjamin Warren
Life Trustee
Dolores Wilkenfeld
Life Trustee