Tiffany Benjamin

Tiffany Benjamin serves as the Humana Foundation’s Chief Executive Officer. As CEO, Tiffany leads the Foundation’s efforts to co‐create healthier communities and eliminate unjust differences in Americans’ health and health care. She is committed to closing systemic equity gaps in mental and behavioral health, nutrition, and food security, particularly for school-aged children, seniors and veterans.  

Tiffany spearheaded the Foundation’s partnership with USAA to co-found Face the Fight, an initiative to reduce veteran suicides that is now supported by a coalition of over 250 organizations. Additionally, she leads the Foundation’s philanthropic disaster response and recovery strategy, as well as its scholarships and associate giving programs. 

Tiffany was named to the inaugural 2025 Time100 Philanthropy list, celebrating the singular figures shaping the future of giving. In 2024, she was awarded the prestigious Outstanding Corporate Philanthropy Leaders Award from the Council on Foundations, and in 2022, The Root recognized Tiffany as one of the 100 Most Influential Black Americans. Most recently, she was commissioned as a Kentucky Colonel, the state's highest title of honor bestowed by the Governor in recognition of Tiffany’s outstanding service to her community, state and nation. 

Before joining Humana, Tiffany was President of the Eli Lilly & Company Foundation and Senior Director, Social Impact at Eli Lilly and Company. In 2020, she led Lilly’s global philanthropic efforts in response to the COVID‐19 pandemic and to address racial inequity in the United States.

Prior to that, Tiffany served as Senior Investigative Counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee.

Tiffany has a law degree from Harvard Law School and an undergraduate degree in Journalism and Political Science from Indiana University.

Tiffany recently joined the United States-Japan Foundation (USJF) Board of Trustees, where she helps guide efforts to strengthen philanthropic collaboration between the United States and Japan. She also serves on the boards of the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (Chair), Indiana University Lilly School of Philanthropy (Chair Emeritus), the Council on Foundations, Harvard Business School Mid-U.S. Research Center Advisory Committee, and the Community Foundation of Louisville.

She writes extensively on private philanthropy and health equity and teaches courses at Indiana University Lilly School of Philanthropy.