Virginia Joffe, a K-12 school counselor at The Spence School from 1989 to 1993, passed away April 21, 2017, at her home in New York City. She was 74 years old. A graduate of Colby Sawyer College, Joffe earned an M.S. in social work from Columbia University in 1969.

 

Joffe dedicated over two decades of her career to New York City independent schools, including Spence, The Dalton School and The Walden School. She was active in a number of New York City nonprofit organizations: Prep-for-Prep; Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance, where she was a board member; The International Women’s Health Coalition; and The New York Women’s Foundation, where she served as president of the board in 2000 and 2001. An avid photographer, Joffe’s works have been featured in galleries in New York City and Nantucket, as well as in a book of photography and poems, In the Most Beautiful Life, which she published in 2002 in collaboration with Romanian poet Carmen Firan. She traveled to Romania four times, and in 2002 her work was featured in “Romania—Sites of Its Memory,” an exhibition held at the Romanian Cultural Center in New York City.

 

A memorial service followed by a reception will be May 5, 2017, at 6 p.m. at All Souls Church, 1157 Lexington Avenue, NYC. Joffe’s obituary was published in The New York Times.