WexCoComm

Wexner Professional Fellowship Community Coordinating Committee

What is WexCoComm?

Wex-Co-Comm is a fellow/alumni led committee operating in partnership with the Foundation that is dedicated to strengthening the Wexner Professional Leadership  (WGF + WFF) community of fellows and alumni.

WexCoComm meets every other month, including in-person twice a year.   WexCoComm was founded in 2013 with the initial goal of strengthening relationships among Wexner community members.  It has also served as a thought-partner with Foundation staff, providing fellow/alumni perspective on pressing community issues.

There are about 12 committee members; we try to ensure that membership reflects the broad diversity of our community across fellowship class, career area, denomination (or lack thereof) and region, seeking to ensure a multiplicity of perspectives.

Committee members are unelected volunteers who are committed to the goals of WexCoComm and willing to invest of themselves to advance those goals.

Goals

WexCoComm seeks to welcome, bring and keep fellows and alumni connected to the Wexner community and to catalyze connections between community members in ways that are driven by community members.

Through bimonthly meetings (including twice a year in-person) and ongoing effort on the part of committee members, WexCoComm focuses on creating or facilitating opportunities to come together and act in community as professionals and as people. WexCoComm serves as thought partners with the WGF/WFF professionals when asked, especially when it comes to emerging challenges like sustaining what has become a multi-generational community with members in a variety of relations of power toward one another or as some members of our community move toward retirement. WexCoComm has also convened and facilitated intra-community conversations in response to challenges within our community.

Broadly construed, WexCoComm seeks to identify personal and professional needs within our community and to facilitate ways to meet them and create and convene venues and contexts that enable community members to come together to learn with and from one another.  WexCoComm engages in this work because we firmly believe that the more interpersonal connections and support, we have around Wexner, the more we will learn from each other and the more we will work together outside of Wexner spaces to strengthen Jewish life more generally.