Jill Savitt (she/her)

Chief Executive Officer, National Center for Civil and Human Rights

Jill Savitt (she/her), the President and CEO of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, is a human rights advocate with expertise in genocide and atrocity prevention. She assumed this leadership role in March 2019, but has been involved with The Center since 2010 when she curated the Center’s exhibit on global human rights before the Center’s opening in 2014.

Previously, Jill was the Acting Director of the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. Jill has led several important human rights campaigns. Savitt founded and directed “Dream for Darfur,” a high-profile advocacy campaign that pressed the Chinese government to take specific actions regarding the Darfur crisis in the lead up to the 2008 Beijing Games. Earlier, as Communications Director at the Ms. Foundation for Women, Jill ran the successful “Take Our Daughters To Work” campaign. She has taught human rights advocacy courses at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).

Jill began her career as a reporter for WAMU, the NPR affiliate in Washington, DC. She graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.