A Wider Bridge SF Gala

Ms. Swig is founder and president of ComCon International and founder, Roselyne C. Swig Artsource (1978-94); Appointed Director of the U.S. Department of State Art in Embassies Program by President William J. Clinton (1994-97); Appointed U.S. Commission Member of the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad by President Joseph Biden (2022-2023). Devoted decades to philanthropic and community service efforts, at local, national and global level with focus on women’s empowerment, social welfare, fine art, political advocacy and education. Founder of the advocacy group, Partners Ending Domestic Abuse (1992), founder/member, Bayview Alliance (2011). Board memberships include: The Swig Company, Jewish Vocational Services, Greenlight Clinic, Arion Press, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, past chair; Shalom Hartman Institute, Lifetime Trustee; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Jewish Community Relations Council; United Religions Initiative; Jewish Community Federation of SF, Peninsula, Marin & Sonoma Counties, past president, Emeritus; Vital Voices Global Partnership; KQED; NPR Foundation; Mills College, Emeritus; Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archives, past president; AIPAC, National V.P. Emeritus; American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Emeritus; SF Arts Commission, past president; National Gallery of Art past co-chair of the Collector’s Committee and SF Haifa Sister City Committee. Ms. Swig attended the University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Los Angeles as an undergraduate and has been awarded Honorary Degrees from the San Francisco Art Institute, the University of San Francisco, Mills College and Santa Clara University. Ms. Swig is the widow of Richard Lewis Swig and has four children, twelve grandchildren and six great grandchildren.