Jill Iscol

Iscol worked as an adviser to Hillary Clinton starting in 1999 and served on the campaign finance committee for her 2008 bid for the presidency. She died Sunday, May 22, 2022 in New York City after a brief illness. She was 75. Jill Weinick Iscol was born on Long Island on June 24, 1946, the second of Milton and Sylvia Friedman Weinick's three daughters. After graduating with high honors from the University of Pittsburgh in 1967, Jill received a doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University and a master of philosophy in sociology from Yale University. She was a teacher in both the New York City public schools and at the progressive Bank Street School before beginning her journey through the not-for-profit sector. In 1977, on a trek in Nepal, she married telecommunications entrepreneur Ken Iscol in a traditional ceremony in a mountain village. In 1989, she and her husband started the IF Hummingbird Foundation, initiating and supporting the Program for Leadership at Cornell University and the Center for the Environment. In addition to her beloved husband of 44 years, she is survived by her son Zachary (Meredith Melling), the current Commissioner of Emergency Management for New York City, and her daughter Kiva who presides over the IF Hummingbird Foundation; sisters Faith Drucker (Howard) and Beth Sperber (Victor); grandchildren Wolf, India, and Wylder Iscol and Eloise Burke. In 2024 two apartments on Manhattan’s Upper East Side owned by the late Jill Iscol traded hands for $10 million—about 40% less than the apartments were asking when they first hit the market in 2020.