Since 2018, Izzy has served community as Executive Director of MAZON Canada, the National Jewish Response to Hunger - a role that perfectly combines her love for Jewish community organizing, social justice and food. To date, she’s directed the distribution of over $7.5 million to 350+ food aid and food justice projects from coast to coast to coast.

In the last five years, she’s piloted Mazon through a significant period of change, growing the team, lay leadership, revenue, and, most importantly, impact – through both the disruption of the lockdown years, and the generational affordability crisis that has followed. 

In the first three years of her direction, alongside her Co-ED, Grant Goodman, Mazon’s support of the food aid sector through grants to front-line, grassroots programs grew from $350,000 to over $1 million, or 300,000 meals, annually. They have also launched new streams of impact, funding capacity-building food service and garden equipment, and systems-level organizing for the food justice sector, like research, conferences, and educational campaigns.

In this role, she lectures at synagogues and panels on issues of philanthropy and food security, teaches at Jewish peer-learning events like Limmud, Lishma, and the MNJCC’s Tikkun Leil Shavuot on issues of Jewish ethics, and served as Congregation Darchei Noam's Social Justice Scholar in Residence from 2021-2023. She is a connector with relationships with progressive Jewish leaders, established and emerging, across Canada and the US, as well as food security leaders nation-wide.