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Boston, Massachusetts, United States

New York City

● VFA: Supporting 200+ recent college grads with professional development coaching, including feedback on resumes and professional writing samples● Romemu: Event design and management, including for 4-day intensive with internationally-renown Torah scholar● Rodeph Sholom School, Congregation Rodeph Sholom, SAJ: Substitute teaching in Jewish Studies, Hebrew, and Hebrew School

Remote

Glean Network designs curricula and courses in innovation, design thinking, and the American religious landscape for a network of interfaith clergy, seminaries, and faith leaders.● Designed curricula and materials for the launch of a new online course for 11 American Jewish seminaries focused on design thinking, lean startup methodology, and how the shifting American religious landscape changes the skills needed to be an effective member of the clergy● Built leadership development and innovation curriculum for a 7-week interfaith program for 15 Bay Area clergy

Jerusalem Area, Israel

● Selected by the Dorot Foundation as one of 12 Fellows for a fully-funded, 10-month Fellowship in Israel, studying Modern Hebrew, learning Jewish text, and volunteering in choral peacebuilding at the Jerusalem Youth Chorus

Greater New York City Area

VFA is a two-year fellowship program for recent grads who want to work in a startup and create jobs in American cities. VFA offers training, professional development, and financial resources that allow fellows to start their own companies.● Designed a 7-module curriculum about emotional intelligence cultivation, career readiness, and character development, taught it to classrooms of ~180 Fellows at 2017 and 2018 Training Camp, a 5-week learning intensive for incoming Fellows● Provided coaching to >50 recent college grads, helping them navigate workplace conflict and develop as leaders● Built process and project managed a 15-person team that onboarded ~200 Fellows into the 2017 & 2018 classes● Re-designed Alumni Reunion weekend, managing a 3-person team and ~$60K budget while coordinating event logistics for ~160 people

Greater Detroit Area

Greenlancer is a solar software startup that leverages a trained community of engineering freelancers to make project design and implementation easier for commercial and residential solar installers. ● Built hiring pipeline and candidate evaluation process for HR & Procurement departments, hired 7 employees including a VP-level executive● Interviewed 20+ employees and synthesized findings to design our COO’s operations strategy, which identified key bottlenecks in hiring and procurement that had been responsible for delayed delivery of our product

Greater Detroit Area

NextEnergy is a renewable energy and smart cities technology incubator that helps private and public sector clients commercialize, scale, and deploy smarter, greener, and cleaner technology solutions.● Founded I-Corps Energy & Transportation, a start-up accelerator providing entrepreneurial training to U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)-funded researchers, and designed a curriculum recognized by DOE as top 3 nationwide ● Managed over $1.5M in State of Michigan grant programs for green energy technology development● Managed strategic accounts with the U.S. Department of Energy, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, Michigan Economic Development Corporation, University of Michigan, and our venture capital network● Led company-wide task team to build and implement an automated metrics reporting tool using Excel and Salesforce, cutting the time needed for monthly grant reporting by 40% and offering improved visualization capabilities

Greater Detroit Area

● Selected as one of 40 Fellows from 700 applicants. Participated in an entrepreneurial training program at Brown University and successfully finished the two-year fellowship.

Palisades, Ny

● Designed a research project tracing pollution caused by catalysts in the metals, petroleum, and chemicals industries in New York Harbor and New Jersey in the early 20th century ● Thesis project won the "Walter C. Pitman Award" departmental honor and was presented at the Urban Environmental Symposium in Karlsruhe, Germany