Founder
Jessica Jacobs
Board of Directors
Jessica Jacobs, President
Cindy Savett, Vice President & Head of Philanthropy
Richard Baron, Treasurer
Yerra Sugarman, Secretary
Richard Chess
Maya Bernstein
Staff
Jessica Jacobs, Executive Director
Danny Kraft, Program Manager
Kylee Rieger, Program & Social Media Assistant
Kyra Lisse, Conference Director
Shelby Sizemore, Conference Manager
Cory Weller, Conference Photographer
Program Associates
Dan Rosenberg, Reading Series Co-Host
Yerra Sugarman, Reading Series Co-Host
Joanna Chen, Reading Series International Curator
Richard Chess, Book Club Host
Interns
Kristen Lopez, UNC-Asheville
Senior Partners Council
Cindy Savett, Chair
Valerie Bacharach
Hannah Butcher
Joanna Chen
Rachel Davies
Sharon Dolin
Charlotte Friedman
David Grubin
Liza Halley
Devorah Harris
Elizabeth Jacobson
Yeva Johnson
Owen Lewis
Leah Huete de Maines
Danny Maseng
Josh Rolnick
Melissa Rosen
Jane Saginaw
Donna Spruijt-Metz
Regional Chapter Leaders
CA-Los Angeles:
Nan Cohen, Julia Knobloch, Donna Spruijt-Metz
CA-SF Bay Area:
Dan Alter, Gail Newman
IL-Chicagoland:
Dina Elenbogen, Jamie Wendt
MA-Boston Area:
Josette Akresh-Gonzales, Liza Halley
MA-Western Mass:
Tzivia Gover, Rich Michelson, Lesléa Newman
NC-Triangle:
Om Green, Caleb Horowitz
NJ-Central/Northern NJ:
Hannah Butcher, Melissa Rosen
NY-Finger Lakes:
Suzanne Brody
PA-Philadelphia:
Amy Small-McKinney
VT-Vermont:
Judy Chalmer
International-Israel:
Joanna Chen, Sarah Sassoon
Advisory Council
Robert Alter
Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld
Ellen Bass
Dan Bellm
Laure-Anne Bosselaar
Peter Cole
Norman Fischer
Jessica Greenbaum
Rachel Hadas
Rabbi Jill Hammer
Edward Hirsch
Rodger Kamenetz
Ilya Kaminsky
Joy Ladin
Dana Levin
Ricardo Maldonado
Rabbi Miriam Margles
Ariel Evan Mayse
Jay Michaelson
Yehoshua November
Alicia Ostriker
Victoria Redel
Martha Rhodes
Alan Shapiro
Grace Schulman
Pamela Jody Stewart
Rabbi Burton L. Visotzky
Avivah Zornberg