JooYeun Chang

JooYeun Chang is the managing director at the Aviv Foundation, where she contributes to foundation-wide initiatives and helps steward US grantmaking, including the foundation’s children and families, democracy, and Jewish life portfolios.

Prior to joining Aviv, Joo served as the program director for child well-being at the Doris Duke Foundation, where she oversaw grantmaking to promote children’s healthy development and protect children from abuse and neglect.

Previously, Joo served as acting assistant secretary and principal deputy assistant secretary for the Administration for Children and Families of the US Department of Health and Human Services, where she was the top federal official overseeing the implementation of national child welfare policy. She also led the State of Michigan’s child welfare system as executive director of the state’s Children’s Services Agency, developing a new comprehensive child welfare technology system, ensuring children and families had opportunities and access to resources, developing place-based prevention pilots, and overseeing front-end redesign of the child protective services system.

Prior to her work in the Michigan state government, Joo was a managing director at Casey Family Programs, where she led work to identify, develop, and disseminate information about the most promising practices in child welfare.