Julie Platt is a full time volunteer fundraiser in Los Angeles and around the country. Earlier in her career, she served as Vice President, Commercial Banking for Bankers Trust Company in New York City.

Mrs. Platt is President of the Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt Foundation, Inc., and Chair of the Advisory Board of Directors of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies. She is the immediate Past-Chair of the Los Angeles Jewish Federation's Women's Campaign and serves on the Federation Executive Committee as well as the Executive Committee of the Jewish Federations of North America. She also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Jewish Camp.

At Penn, Mrs. Platt is a member of the Boards of Overseers of both the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies and Penn Hillel. She serves as Co-Chair of Penn Hillel's National Board of Governors. She is a member of the Trustees' Council of Penn Women and the Southern California Regional Advisory Board as well as a Secondary School Committee Chair in Los Angeles. Additionally, she serves as Chair of Penn Nursing's Los Angeles conference, Healthy Cities: Healthy Women. Mrs. Platt and her husband, Marc Platt (C'79) made a substantial leadership gift to create the Platt Student Performing Arts House, a home for student performing arts at Penn. The Platts also created the Julie Beren Platt and Marc Platt Rehearsal Room in Houston Hall, and established the Marc E. and Julie B. Platt Endowed Fund in support of the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies and the Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt Scholarship at the School of Arts and Sciences. In 2012, Julie and Marc joined the Men and Women of Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund and funded a new summer school in Judaic studies for students pursuing doctoral studies in all fields of Judaic studies. The summer school is a joint program of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Penn's Katz Center.

Penn Alumni President Term: 7/1/2013 - 6/30/2018