Jane and Scott Brown Distinguished Service Award, 2024 Gala
Scott Brown’s professional career and volunteer leadership has been focused on strengthening the Jewish community and Israel.
Prior to becoming an Executive Leadership Coach and founding Scott Brown Leadership Coaching, he served as Executive Vice President and Vice President for Talent at Hillel International, focusing on professional leadership, recruitment, and hiring of thousands of employees. He earned the Exemplar of Excellence Award, the highest honor for Hillel professional staff. He pioneered the Israel Fellows Program bringing Israelis to college campuses. Previously, he was Executive Director at the University of Maryland Hillel and Associate Executive Director of the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia. He has played an instrumental role in helping to build the Jewish community of Northern Virginia and supporting professionals throughout Greater Washington.
In the community, Scott serves on the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Board of Directors. He was appointed by the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia to serve on the Virginia Israel Advisory Board, is a past president of the Pozez Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia and was the founding Board President at George Mason University Hillel. He serves as an Advisor for The Den and is Co-Chair of IMUN, an international network of professional coaches who work in the Jewish sector.
Jane Schapiro Brown is a poet and author, who spent 17 years tutoring student-athletes at George Mason University. She has also been involved in numerous community leadership roles, serving on the Board of Directors of Food for Others in Fairfax and volunteering with The Women’s Center, Bread for the City and the George Mason University Emotional Support Line.
She has authored three volumes of poetry, including Warbler, the 2020 Nautilus Book Award Silver Winner. She also wrote the nonfiction book Inside A Class Action: The Holocaust and the Swiss Banks (University of Wisconsin), an examination of the class-action lawsuit filed in 1996 against Swiss Bank Corporation, Union Bank of Switzerland, and Credit Suisse on behalf of Holocaust victims.
Together, they fund a program through Federation that provides 10 free coaching sessions to Jewish professionals; volunteered with Authentic Israel during the current war; pioneered the Shiri Rahamim Shaliach Program through the Pozez JCC in 2007; and participated in the yearlong WUJS Arad program during their first year of marriage.