Holly Huffnagle
U s Director for Combating Antisemitism @American Jewish Committee (AJC)
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WORK HISTORY
U s Director for Combating Antisemitism @American Jewish Committee (AJC)
Washington, DC, US
Serves as AJC’s chief strategist in coordinating and leading the organization’s response to antisemitism in the United States.• Meets with U.S. government, interreligious, civil society leaders and other influencers to seek ways to protect the Jewish community. • Monitors issues of antisemitism throughout the U.S. and drafts internal guidance to staff and lay leaders regarding legislation, programs, trainings, and other measures to monitor and combat domestic antisemitism.• Serves as spokesperson to the media, members of government, and other key actors.• Works with global allies on sharing and implementing best practices in the fight against antisemitism. • Releases AJC\'s annual State of Antisemitism in America Report. Latest results are found here: Coauthor of AJC\'s Translate Hate Glossary, a compendium of antisemitic terms and tropes:
EDUCATION
Georgetown University
Master of Arts (M.A.), Global, International, and Comparative History
Westmont College
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History
ABOUT HOLLY HUFFNAGLE
Holly Huffnagle serves as the U.S. Director for Combating Antisemitism at AJC (American Jewish Committee), where she is responsible for coordinating and leading the organization\'s response to antisemitism in the United States. Previously, Holly was the Assistant Director of AJC Los Angeles, overseeing International Relations and all projects and programs related to monitoring and combating antisemitism.Before coming to AJC, Holly served as the policy advisor to the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism at the U.S. Department of State and as a researcher in the Mandel Center of Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. She received her Masters from Georgetown University where she focused on 20th-century Polish history and Jewish-Muslim relations before, during, and after the Holocaust. She was a Scholar-in-Residence at Oxford University with the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy and has appeared in media outlets ranging from CNN, NBC, ABC, and Deep Dive Fox Nation, and has published articles in East European Jewish Affairs, Times of Israel, Fox News, and other publications in the U.S.Holly has lived and worked in Poland to conduct research on ethnic minority relations before World War II, and was selected for the Auschwitz Jewish Center fellowship on pre-war Jewish life and the Holocaust in Poland and northern Slovakia. She has volunteered at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim, Poland, and served as a liaison for the Jan Karski U.S. Educational Foundation.Holly received her B.A. in History from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, CA. In fall 2017, she co-led Westmont College’s Europe Semester Program, teaching courses in Europe on the Holocaust and contemporary European challenges. She is currently teaching an undergraduate course at Westmont on “The Politics of Prejudice and Antisemitism: Religion, Israel, and U.S. Foreign Policy.”
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