For fifteen years, I've built programs that take people to the edges of the world and ask them to lead.
As the Senior Director of Programs and Organizational Development at JDC Entwine, an initiative of JDC, the leading global Jewish humanitarian organization, I oversee immersive experiences connecting young Jewish adults to humanitarian work in more than 70 countries. In 2025, I stepped into the role of Co-Interim Executive Director, helping lead the organization through a pivotal moment.
I've traveled to more than 25 countries and worked with communities across many more. That sustained engagement built something in me: a practice grounded in cultural humility, asset-based community building, and the discipline of arriving as a learner, even when I'm the one leading.
The rooms I try to build are ones where people feel seen before they feel challenged, because that's a sequence I've found that works.
How I Work
My work sits at the intersection of values-driven practice, global humanitarian work, and the craft of building community across difference.
In practice, that means I work from curiosity rather than curriculum. I design experiences where people do real thinking together, not just receive information. I pay close attention to how a room feels, because that often tells me more than what's being said.
That belief shapes everything: how I design programs, how I facilitate, how I think about leadership development as a practice rather than a credential.
What Shapes My Work
I've spent much of my life navigating spaces not designed with me in mind. As a Type 1 diabetic and a member of the LGBTQ+ community, I learned early what it feels like to need a room to make a little more room. That experience has shaped how I think about belonging, accountability, and what it means to show up fully in community.
It's also shaped the kinds of spaces I try to build. Ones where difference is not flattened. Where participation doesn't require leaving parts of oneself at the door.
I write about these intersections too. My essays on identity, grief, and Jewish life have appeared in Tablet Magazine, HuffPost, and other publications. My ELI Talk, "Reconciling My Body With Tradition," has been viewed more than 25,000 times. I serve on the boards of Jewish Queer Youth and You're Just My Type, and am a member of the ROI Community and a 2018 UJA Federation Ruskay Fellow. I'm a marathon runner.
I hold an MSEd in Leadership in Community-Based Learning from Bank Street College of Education and a BA in English from California State University Northridge.
If you're building something and looking for a partner to think it through with you, I'd be glad to be that partner.