Jane F. Nathanson, MA, MFCC 

Jane Nathanson is a psychologist and licensed clinical marriage and family therapist. She received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the University of Denver, where she was a past member of the Board of Trustees and honored as an Outstanding Alumni. She went on to earn a master’s degree in marriage, family and child counseling from the California Graduate Institute and holds an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Denver. 

Mrs. Nathanson maintains a private practice in Los Angeles and is a member of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center Board, where she founded the Nathanson Family Resilience Center at UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Hospital and chairs the Jane and Marc Nathanson Family Foundation. She served as a director on the board of the American Foundation for AIDS Research and as a former member of the State of California Board of Behavioral Sciences, where she was appointed by California Governor, Gray Davis. 

Mrs. Nathanson was elected to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Board of Trustees in October 2004. She is one of the original Founders and Trustees, and former Vice Chairman of the Board, of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and is on the National Board of the Aspen Art Museum. She is active in numerous civic and charitable organizations including democratic politics, having served as a delegate at two former democratic presidential conventions. While her husband, Marc, served as the U.S. Ambassador to Norway she lectured at numerous Norwegian symposiums on resilience. 

Jane and Marc, have three children and eight grandchildren and reside in Los Angeles, Aspen and Montecito.