Felicia Herman

Felicia Deborah Herman is an American historian and nonprofit administrator in the field of Jewish philanthropy. She is the chief operating officer of the Maimonides Fund and president of the Natan Fund. She is the managing editor of SAPIR: A Journal of Jewish Conversations and president of the board of the American Jewish Historical Society.

Early life and education Herman grew up in New Jersey in a Conservative Jewish household. As a child, she was diagnosed with dyslexia and attended a specialized school where she was not permitted to learn Hebrew. She attended high school in West Windsor, New Jersey. During high school in 1987, she participated in a student exchange program to West Germany.

Career Herman worked for a year as an assistant to the director at the Yeshiva University Museum.

In April 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Herman was seconded as the director of the Aligned Grant Program of the Jewish Community Response and Impact Fund (JCRIF), a coalition of foundations providing emergency support to American Jewish non-profit organizations.

Herman is the president of the board of the American Jewish Historical Society and is on the boards of Natan, Sefaria, and the DreamStreet Theatre Company. She is a recipient of the JJ Greenberg Memorial Award from the Jewish Funders Network. In 2021, The Jerusalem Post ranked her number 42 on its list of the "Top 50 Most Influential Jews."