Joy Getnick

Joy Getnick, PhD, (she) is the Executive Director of Hillel at the University of Rochester. Her prior role was as the Senior Director for Programming and Jewish Life at the Louis S. Wolk JCC of Greater Rochester, including as the founding director of Camp Seneca Lake (CSL) in Israel, a summer Israel program for teens. A historian by training she is the author of the Florence Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning curriculum on the Arab-Israeli Conflict, and spent many years teaching part-time in the SUNY Geneseo Department of History. Joy, her husband, and two sons live in Pittsford, NY, where she enjoys cooking/baking through the four seasons, and celebrating all things Jewish with her family and the community.