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New York, New York, United States

Designing professional development for the Federation field as part of the Mandel Center for Leadership Excellence.

Greater Boston Area

Diversity and Inclusion: Direct volunteer tutoring program in 25 public schools with partner synagogues totaling 200 volunteers to build relationships across communities and strengthen literacy skills. Expanded program to new cities. Developed new pen pal initiative across communities to combat racism and expand cross-cultural inclusion.Leadership.

Developed and wrote content for organization’s new Merit platform, online professional development for nonprofits. Responsible for specific competency areas such as Staff Deployment.

Needham, MA

Organizational Leadership: Established national Jewish fertility healing organization as a 501c3 with co-founder to raise awareness through the arts, provide education to communal leadership and offer direct support to those on a fertility journey. Regional Consulting: Developed multi-year national program model and consulted to regional leadership on how.

Waltham, MA

Strategic Planning: Led strategic planning process for school-wide and grade level programming. Engaged student leaders in all-school event planning to enhance their project management skills. Created Student Council mentoring program for leadership. Organizational Development: Restructured department staffing, project timelines and faculty support.

New York, NY

Professional Development Redesign: Reimagined and doubled attendance (200 to 400) at Cornerstone Fellowship national counselor training to be outcome-oriented with clear benchmarks. Expanded curriculum to include improve implementation by offering program advising. Developed new curricular materials and website to professionalize the program.Staff.

New York, NY

Government Partnerships: Managed relationships with key partners in offices such as The New York Times and the Mayor’s office to collaboratively market literacy awareness programs.Large-Scale Product Distribution: Oversaw annual summer training participation for 700 teachers. Distributed literacy materials to support summer training to 1400 schools.

New York, NY

Needs Assessment: Completed a needs assessment, identified opportunity and designed a weekly program to support adolescents as they prepared for college. Engaged managers to ensure program responded to communal needs.Measuring Success: Developed tools to measure success and document progress. Created key methodologies and best practices to drive student.

Ba, Psychology, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: CityStep Director, Harvard Hillel Israel at 50 Co-Chair, Harvard Hillel Freshman Orientation Co-ChairAreas of.

Mentoring Supervisor Training Certificate Program, Partnership Program With Big Brothers Big Sisters

Organizational Psychology, Talent Management