Joyce Pan Huang joined the Cleveland Foundation in January 2025 as the organization’s first chief impact officer. In this position, she will leverage the foundation’s resources and convening power to build partnerships and drive place-based strategies to address some of the most persistent challenges facing Greater Cleveland. Prior to this role, Huang was appointed by Mayor Justin M. Bibb as the first female, Asian American director of city planning for the City of Cleveland. As the Planning Director, Huang led impactful community-based neighborhood planning efforts, policy change in land use, zoning, and transportation, and process improvements in city government. She also served as the vice president of community development at MidTown Cleveland, Inc., an economic and community development organization serving in the city’s MidTown and AsiaTown neighborhoods.  

Huang has served as a board member of the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency, the Federal Reserve of Cleveland Community Advisory Council, Vibrant NEO 2040 and the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission. Joyce holds a master’s in urban planning, design and development from Cleveland State University’s Levin College of Urban Affairs, where she was awarded the achievement of American Planning Association’s Outstanding Planning Student. She also holds a bachelor's degree in sociology with a minor in environmental studies from the University of Michigan. After graduating, she worked in campus ministry in Northeast Ohio, an experience which shaped her human-centered leadership style, passion for leadership development and community building work. A transplant from the Rochester, NY area, Joyce has lived in the Cleveland area for nearly two decades.