Yaffa Popack

Yaffa Popack is a lawyer, entrepreneur, community activist, and philanthropist, and is the co-founder and chair of YMP Real Estate Management, a South Florida-based real estate acquisition and management company with residential and commercial properties in seven states.

YMP Real Estate Management has succeeded due to its agility and creativity in challenging market conditions and is respected for its focus on the well-being of its employees and 10,000+ resident tenants. Ensuring a high standard of care for seniors is a personal priority and the assisted living facilities YMP owns and manages provide residents with exceptional care in safe, state-of-the-art facilities.

In response to the pandemic and its impact on families in south Florida, Yaffa launched an innovative program to assist YMP tenants who had become unemployed as a result of COVID-19 to find a job and maintain secure housing for their families. Most recently, Yaffa founded Neighborhood Farms USA, a national non-profit dedicated to addressing the wide range of nutritional challenges people face in communities across the country. The organization promotes health, wellness, and nutritional education and supports the development of community gardens, healthy food programs, and shared best practices in gardening and urban farming.

Yaffa Popack is principal and co-founder of Route 26 Capital, an advisory firm that provides family offices and institutions with guidance in private wealth management, estate planning, tax strategy, philanthropic planning, private equity investment access, and trust services affiliated with large institutions.

Yaffa has served on the Touro University Board of Governors in New York since 2020 and chairs the YMP Family Foundation, whose mission is to provide access to affordable housing and sustainable nutrition. She is the founder of a synagogue on Fisher Island, a Miami food bank that offers affordable kosher food for people in need and she partnered to develop a school for troubled boys from the Hassidic community in Israel. Locally, Yaffa also serves as a holistic health counselor and senior living counselor in the Miami-Dade community at large.

Her parents emigrated to the United States from the former Soviet Union in 1975 seeking economic opportunity and freedom from religious persecution, and Yaffa grew up believing in the transcendent value of education. Fluent in five languages, she is a graduate of Columbia University and received her Juris Doctor at Benjamin Cardozo School of Law in New York. Yaffa lives in Miami Beach with her husband and business partner Moshe Popack and their 11 children.