40 Under 40: Debra Meyer
Mazel Tov to Debra Meyer for being named to Jewish Atlanta's 40 Under 40.
Debra Meyer has built a successful career in wealth management and currently serves as Managing Director for a boutique wealth management firm, Moonstone Asset Management. While working full-time, Debra earned her MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, demonstrating the drive and discipline that have characterized both her professional and community leadership. Originally from Chicago, she is a passionate Atlanta transplant.
“My husband’s family is from Atlanta, and when we decided to move here when we had kids, he always said, ‘If you don’t like it, we’ll go back to Chicago, no problem at all.’ I feel like I’ve been the one who’s been like, ‘This is home, I love it here so much!’”
Perhaps the organization in which Meyer is most involved is the Jewish Fertility Foundation. Having had a difficult fertility journey herself and knowing of but not having access to JFF in either Chicago or Denver, where she and her husband were later living, one of the first things she did upon moving here was ask how to get involved. A board member asked her to come talk about it over a cup of coffee.
“That coffee ended up with ‘would you like to join the board?’”
Since then, she has been deeply involved with the organization, acting as their current treasury and incoming board chair.
She is also the board chair for Slingshot, which trains next gen fundraisers and leaders in the Jewish nonprofit space, and is in the current cohort of the Tritt Leadership Fellowship.
She is the proud parent of three young kids, and they are all members at Temple Sinai.