Regina Sassoon Friedland became regional director of American Jewish Committee Seattle in 2017. She regularly engages with elected officials and foreign diplomats on areas of interest to the Jewish and general communities, and with multi-faith and intergroup representatives toward advancing matters of shared concern. She is a member of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition’s Washington Advisory Committee, the University of Washington’s Stroum Center for Jewish Studies Advisory Board, the Sephardic Study Advisory Committee of JIMENA, and the Sephardic Leadership Institute’s Women’s Leadership Committee.