AMY HERSKOVITZ

As the founding Executive of The Pershing Square Foundation and the Principal of Fortitude Fund, Amy has well over a decade of experience in strategic philanthropy, impact investing, scaling social enterprise, and creating systems networks. She has worked to support non-profit social entrepreneurs and innovators in multiple sectors including health, social justice, economic development and education with focus on capacity building, scale, and sustainability. She has been involved with a number of boards including Echoing Green, New Profit, Harvard Global Health Initiative, Zahn Center for Social Enterprise, and the NYU Social Entrepreneurship Program. Prior to this work she has decades of experience working and teaching in the Mental Health arena with a specialization in rapid evaluation, child and family treatment, and trauma.