Board membership

She is a member of the Board of Directors of Stanford University Management Company,[45] the university’s endowment, the Board of Trustees of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center,[46] the Board of Directors of The Council on Foreign Relations,[9] the Board of Directors of Bloomberg Philanthropies,[47] and the Board of Directors of The Blackstone Group.[48] She previously served on the Board of Trustees of Stanford University,[49] the Borrowing Advisory Committee of the United States Treasury,[50] and the Board of Trustees of the Economic Club of New York.[51] She is a member of the Advisory Council of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution,[52] and the Economic Strategy Group at the Aspen Institute.[53]

Political views

Porat supported Hillary Clinton for president in 2008 and 2016, hosting fundraisers for her at the Dakota in New York City.[54]

In 2011, Porat expressed her support for increased taxes on the wealthy and declared on the topic of significant spending decreases that “we cannot cut our way to greatness”.[55]

In March 2025, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie named Porat as co-chair of “The Partnership for San Francisco” alongside Laurene Powell Jobs.[56]

Gotta love liberals being liberals. You can always count on em being complete wastes of space in the face of fascism.