Community ActivistComcon, International
Ms. Swig is founder & 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); 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 and founder, Bayview Alliance Group in 2011. Board memberships include: Vital Voices Global Partnership; KQED; NPR Foundation; Mills College, Shalom Hartman Institute. Lifetime Trustee; SF Art Institute, past president & Trustee Emeritus; Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archives, past president; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Contemporary Jewish Museum, past chair; AIPAC, National V.P.; American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; Jewish Community Federation of SF, Peninsula, Marin & Sonoma Counties, past president. She is the National Gallery of Art’s past co-chair of the Collector’s Committee and on United Religions Initiative’s President’s Council and member of SF Haifa Sister City Committee.
Ms. Swig is a 2015 Policy Fellow, The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio, Italy Residency Program and 2013 Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellow, Harvard University.
Ms. Swig served as past president of SF Arts Commission and member of SF Library Commission.
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 and twelve grandchildren.