Joyce Pan Huang
Cleveland Foundation
The Cleveland Foundation announced that Joyce Pan Huang will join the foundation as its Chief Impact Officer. In this newly created role, Ms. Huang will lead efforts to create a unified vision and direction that will elevate the foundation as a trusted partner and catalyst for transformative change in Cleveland, Ohio.
Ms. Huang comes to the foundation with tremendous community leadership experience across the public and nonprofit sectors, most recently serving as the Director of City Planning for the City of Cleveland. Ms. Huang made history as the first female and first Asian American to serve in that role.
As Chief Impact Officer, Ms. Huang will build out the foundation’s community impact model. This includes establishing an operating approach for grantmaking that grows resources and builds the capacity of the nonprofit sector, and engaging donors in new and innovative ways. She will partner closely with foundation staff and key stakeholders to address some of the most persistent and difficult challenges facing Greater Cleveland, Ohio and respond effectively to the changing field of philanthropy.
In her current role, Ms. Huang has elevated the influence of the City Planning department over the past nearly three years, empowering staff and driving key strategic community and resident-focused priorities. These include the Mayor’s 15-minute city initiative, Complete and Green Streets, as well as a pilot for a new zoning code that fosters sustainable development patterns across Cleveland neighborhoods. Ms. Huang was also instrumental in establishing the first Mayor’s Office role in Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy as well as the creation of the North Coast Lakefront Master Plan, a blueprint for a vibrant and equitable recreational hub along the lake.
Ms. Huang previously served as the Vice President of Community Development for MidTown Cleveland Inc., where she coordinated five visionary and community-driven planning efforts for MidTown’s transportation corridors, neighborhood-based arts and culture, and the innovative Neighborhood Vision Plan. Her own contributions in the Asian American Pacific Islander community led to the formation of an AsiaTown team housed at MidTown Cleveland—the first to serve residents comprising staff of Asian descent with language fluency. Ms. Huang, whose Chinese name is Pan Ming 潘敏, is a second generation Taiwanese American. Her parents emigrated from Taiwan and settled in Rochester, New York, where Ms. Huang was raised.
Ms. Huang currently serves in various community leadership roles, including as a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Community Advisory Council, a board member for the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency, Cuyahoga County Planning Commission, and a board member for Vibrant NEO 2024. She has received numerous community recognitions, including a Crain’s Cleveland 40 Under 40 Award and the YMCA Distinguished Young Woman Award.
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Sarah Iselin, Anna Maria Siega-Riz, Dr. Thomas Lee
Sarah Iselin, Anna Maria Siega-Riz, Dr. Thomas Lee
The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation announced the appointment of Sarah Iselin, President and CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, and Anna Maria Siega-Riz, Dean of the School of Public Health and Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, to its Board of Directors. Dr. Thomas H. Lee, a primary care physician and cardiologist, clinical researcher and health policy expert who presently serves on the Board, has been appointed Board Chair.
Ms. Iselin has a long and successful history with the Foundation, where she served as President from 2010 to 2012, and later as the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Chief Strategy Officer and Senior Vice President of Strategy, Policy and Community Partnerships. Currently serving as President and CEO of the company, Ms. Iselin received a master’s degree in health policy and management from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
At UMass Amherst, Ms. Siega-Riz’s research focuses on maternal and child health, including nutrition and health outcomes during critical early-life periods. She received a bachelor’s degree in public health and a doctorate in nutrition from the University of North Carolina School of Public Health and completed a master’s in food, nutrition, and food service management from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Dr. Lee joined the Board last year, bringing more than three decades of experience as a physician. He is the Chief Medical Officer of Press Ganey, an international leader in health care performance improvement, and a practicing internist and cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is also a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
The Foundation’s previous Board Chair was Andrew Dreyfus, the former President and CEO of the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, who stepped down from his role with the company in 2022. He was also the first to serve as the Foundation’s President, leading many significant initiatives during his long tenure, including the development of the “Roadmap to Coverage,” a multi-year effort that contributed to the passage of Massachusetts’ landmark 2006 health reform law and later became the model for the Affordable Care Act.
Contact: Maia BrodyField at maia.brodyfield@bcbsma.com.