Justin Izbinski joined the Yale Divinity School Office of Alumni Engagement and Development in May 2023. As Development Coordinator, he will provide support to the YDS alumni engagement and annual giving programs, manage gift stewardship, provide event support, and work closely with volunteers.
Justin has a B.A. from California State University, Long Beach. For close to a decade, he worked as a fine-arts professional in art galleries throughout Los Angeles prior to transitioning to the non-profit sector in 2017. Before joining YDS, he was a grant writer for Inner-City Arts, a Los Angeles non-profit devoted to providing arts education to underserved children, in addition to working in the Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations at UMass, Amherst. In his free time, he is an avid reader and book collector in addition to an amateur photographer.