Amid antisemitism controversies at the University of Pennsylvania, she was appointed interim chair of the school's board of trustees in December 2023.
Platt was born to Joan Schiff Beren, a noted philanthropist to Jewish causes[1] and grew up in Wichita, Kansas, the only Jew in her public school class of about 700 students.
She matriculated at the University of Pennsylvania, where in her first week on campus she met her future husband Marc Platt.
[6] Julie Platt was elected chair of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Federations of North America in 2022.
She is the second woman to be the chair for the organization, which oversees 146 Jewish federations across the United States and Canada that distribute over $3 billion each year.