Cliff Berg and Monica Miller of Governmental Advocates serve as JPAC’s representatives in Sacramento. In this role, Berg and Miller works bipartisanly building deep relationships with legislative policy committees, the Administration, and state agencies to advocate for JPAC’s policy priorities, including social services, traditional community concerns, and the broadly shared values that affect the citizens of our State.
Caron Spector serves as the Association Director for JPAC, the Jewish Public Affairs Committee of California. JPAC is the largest single-state coalition of Jewish organizations in the nation. Comprised of local Jewish Federations, Jewish Community Relations Committees and Councils, and other Jewish community advocacy groups from throughout California, JPAC advocates on behalf of Jewish social service agencies, traditional community concerns, and broadly shared values that affect the citizens of our State. As Association Director, Spector is charged with day-to-day executive management of the organization, communications and member outreach, and works in concert with JPAC’s Sacramento representatives and Board to move its public policy agenda forward.
Spector also serves as Director of Government Relations for The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, supporting the Federation’s government affairs and public policy agenda, working with officials at all levels of government to secure and strengthen support for the work of The Jewish Federation and its beneficiary agencies and to advocate on behalf of the Jewish community and the State of Israel.
Before joining The Jewish Federation, Spector attended USC’s Annenberg School for Communication as part of the Communication Management graduate program. Spector came to Los Angeles from Washington, D.C., where she spent nearly 5 years in politics and government. In that time, she was Deputy Press Secretary to U.S. Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA); Deputy Political Director for Arizona during the Gore-Lieberman 2000 presidential campaign; and Director of Scheduling & Advance for Clinton Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman. She also served as an intern in the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.
Spector is a former Young Leadership Chair for HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) and board member at USC Hillel and is a graduate of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Glass Leadership Institute.
