Judy Belk

Senior Vice President, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Judy Belk has over twenty years of leadership experience in strategic philanthropy, community relations, corporate citizenship, and nonprofit management. Judy currently serves as a senior vice president of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA), where she leads the organization’s West Coast operations, which has offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors provides research and counsel on charitable giving, develops philanthropy programs, and offers complete program, administrative and management services for individual donors, foundations , corporations, and trusts. It currently advises on nearly $200 million in annual giving in more than 30 countries. Before joining RPA, she served as vice president of Global Public Affairs for Levi Strauss
Judy currently serves on the boards of Southern California Grantmakers and the Marlborough School in Los Angeles. She most recently served as a board member for The Ms. Foundation for Women and in the past has served on the boards of The Berkeley Repertory Theatre and the ACLU of Northern California. Judy has written and lectured extensively on organizational ethics, race, and social change. Her articles have aired on National Public Radio and have appeared in The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Washington Post. She received her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and holds a Master of Public Administration from California State University, East Bay. A native of Alexandria, VA, she currently lives and works in Los Angeles.