Joyce Rudin is a West Orange native who worked as an on-air reporter for PBS, NPR‘s Marketplace, and Consumer Reports TV. She currently works as a financial administrator.
Joyce is a longtime community advocate. She served on the West Orange Open Space and Recreation Commission. Joyce co-founded the environmental advocacy group Our Green West Orange.
She chaired the Coalition to Save South Mountain Reservation, which successfully advocated against the expansion of an amphitheater onto adjacent wetlands in the Reservation, preventing flooding in West Orange. She has a proven track record of getting things done.
She also worked for City Harvest, the New York City organization that distributes surplus food from restaurants, bakeries and grocery stores to soup kitchens.
Joyce participated in Operation Solomon, the 1991 emergency airlift that brought 14,000 Ethiopian Jews to safety in Israel, as one of five Americans who spent a year in Ethiopia as organizers.
She holds a master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and earned her bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University.
Joyce is married to Rabbi Moshe Rudin of Congregation Adath Shalom in Morris Plains. They are a blended family with three children, two of whom graduated from West Orange High School.
Joyce’s mother, the late Corinne Miller, was the first woman to run for town council in West Orange and was a force in politics her entire life.
Joyce sees her mother’s legacy as continuing her commitment to the township, focusing on citizen advocacy, civic service, and leading at the local level where the decisions that most affect our quality of life are made.
