Joanna Trotter serves as the executive director/senior program officer for the Chicago and Minneapolis-St. Paul markets for Global Philanthropy at JPMorgan Chase. Joanna leads the Chicago philanthropy team, including carrying out the firm’s $150M commitment in addition to partnering on the firm-wide $30B racial equity commitment.
Prior to joining JPMorgan Chase, Joanna served as the senior director of community impact for The Chicago Community Trust where she informed the Trust’s 10-year racial wealth gap commitment and led the growing household wealth strategy. Joanna also spent three years as director of neighborhood development for the University of Chicago’s Office of Civic Engagement and ten years forwarding the Metropolitan Planning Council’s community-building work across the seven-county Chicago region.
Joanna serves on the boards of Women Employed and the Center for Housing and Health at the Aids Foundation of Chicago and lives in South Shore with her husband and two children.
