Yetzirah
Leadership

Board of Directors

Cindy Savett, Chair & Head of Philanthropy
Richard Baron, Treasurer
Aviva Dautch
David Grubin
Liza Halley
Beth Kanter
Chesky Kopel
Ma’ayan Seligsohn
Jessica Jacobs, Ex Officio

Staff

Jessica Jacobs, Executive Director
Lewis Freedman, Managing Director
Kyra Lisse, Program Coordinator & Conference Director
Rina Shamilov, Program & Social Media Assistant

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

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
NJ-Central/Northern NJ:
Hannah Butcher, Melissa Rosen
NM-Northern New Mexico:
Elizabeth Jacobson, Leslie Ullman
NY-Finger Lakes:
Suzanne Brody
NY-New York City:
Sharon Dolin
NC-Asheville:
Richard Chess
NC-Triangle:
Om Green, Caleb Horowitz
PA-Philadelphia:
Amy Small-McKinney, Steven Kleinman
VT-Vermont:
Judy Chalmer
International-Israel:
Joanna Chen, Sarah Sassoon
International-UK:
Aviva Dautch, Rachel Davies, Eve Grubin

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

Yetzirah
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