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Board of Directors

Michele Rosen, Chair
A native of Los Angeles, Michele Rosen has worked as a history teacher in high schools and middle schools, and has held numerous positions in the Seattle Jewish Community Center, as well as on the Girl Scout Council. Her volunteer career includes the positions of Women's and General Campaign Chair of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle; President of the Board of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, National Women's Campaign Board of the United Jewish Appeal (UJA); Chair of the Young Leadership Cabinet (UJA); and member of a variety of educational, United Way, and social service boards.

Joyce Antler
Joyce Antler is the Samuel Lane Professor of American Jewish History and Culture at Brandeis University, where she teaches American Studies and Women's Studies. She is the author and editor of ten books including, most recently, You Never Call! You Never Write! A History of the Jewish Mother. Other works in Jewish and women's history include The Journey Home: How Jewish Women Shaped Modern America; America and I: Short Stories by American Jewish Women Writers; Talking Back: Images of Jewish Women in American Popular Culture, and Lucy Sprague Mitchell: The Making of a Modern Woman. With Elinor Fuchs, she is the author of a documentary drama, Year One of the Empire: A Play of Politics, War, and Protest, which had its New York city premiere in the winter of 2008. A Founding Board member of the Jewish Women's Archive, Antler also serves as Chair of the Jewish Women's Archive's Academic Advisory Council.

Susan Asher Calechman
Susan Asher Calechman is Chair of the National Committee of the Wellesley College Friends of Art, and chairs the Nominating Committee of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston of which she is a Past President. She is a member of the board of Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston and former Co-Chair of its 2002 and 2003 Annual Fund. She is a founding member of the Boston Jewish Community Women's Fund and has served on the board of the National Women's Constituency of United Jewish Communities and as an Officer of Jewish Community Housing for the Elderly and of the Goldring-Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life. She grew up in Jackson, Mississippi with many strong Jewish women as role models.

Barbara B. Dobkin, Founding Chair
The Founding Chair of JWA's Board of Directors, Barbara Dobkin is also the founder and Chair of Ma'yan: the Jewish Women's Project of the JCC in Manhattan and Chair of the Board of The Hadassah Foundation. An advocate for women in both Jewish and secular life, she currently serves on the boards of Advancing Women Professionals and the Jewish Community, the White House Project, Lilith Magazine, and the Women's Funding Network. Dobkin is a significant supporter of and advisor to a variety of feminist organizations in the United States and Israel.

See also:
Paean to a Troublemaker: Barbara Dobkin by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
About Barbara B. Dobkin, So Laugh a Little Honoree
A Few Words about Barbara Dobkin by Nicki Newman Tanner
A Letter about Barbara Dobkin from Gail T. Reimer

Gloria Feldt
Gloria Feldt is the leading expert and an expert leader in women's rights, health, media, and politics from where the personal meets the political. A former teen mom who became leader of the world's largest reproductive health care provider and advocacy organization, she was dubbed "the voice of experience" by People Magazine. She's a powerful voice for women through her books, keynote speeches, and media commentary. Gloria's newest book, in collaboration with actress Kathleen Turner, is Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles and was published by Springboard in February of 2008. Her two previous books are The War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back and Behind Every Choice Is a Story. Her commentary has appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, ELLE, and MS magazines among others, and on-line in Alternet, Salon, The Huffington Post, Daily Kos, WIMNsVoices, Women’s e-News, and RH Reality Check. Gloria has appeared on most major radio and television news and public affairs programs and is a SheSource expert. Currently a fellow of the International Leadership Forum, she serves on the Women's Media Center board of directors and the advisory board of Our Bodies, Ourselves. Vanity Fair magazine named Gloria one of America's "top 200 women legends, leaders, and trailblazers." Glamour magazine honored her as Woman of the Year. She was one of Women's e-News' 2007 "21 Leaders for the 21st Century." She and her husband, Alex Barbanell, have a combined family of six children, nine grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. They live in New York and Arizona.

Roz Garber
Roz Garber is the President of Garber Travel, a global travel management company headquartered in New England. She has previously served as Executive Director of Hadassah in Boston and as Assistant Director of the Synagogue Council of Massachusetts. Roz holds an M.A. from Brandeis University, a B.A. from the University of Toronto and is a graduate of the Travel School of America. She serves on the Board of the International Business School at Brandeis University; as well as the Boards of Hadassah Boston; the Zamir Chorale; and Mayyim Hayyim, Living Waters and Education Center.

Judith Ginsberg
Judith Ginsberg brings tremendous leadership and directorial experience to the JWA board. Currently, Judith serves as Executive Director for the Nash Family Foundation in New York. As a founding Executive Director of The Covenant Foundation, Judith implemented all aspects of the Foundation's awards and grants and established the Foundation's presence in Jewish philanthropy. Judith spent two years as Program Officer in the Division of Education at the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has had extensive experience abroad. This includes her post as Director of the Union College Terms in Spain and Colombia, English instructor for the U.S. State Department at the University of Poznan in Poland, and as an exchange student in Chile with the American Field Service.

Penina Migdal Glazer
Penina Migdal Glazer has recently retired from Hampshire College, where she served as Dean of Faculty, Vice President, and Marilyn Levin Professor of History. With a Ph.D. in U.S. history from Rutgers, she is the co-author of several books, including the recently published study Jews in a Promised Land: The History and Development of the Jewish Community of Northampton, Massachusetts. She is currently working with several colleagues on a jointly authored book on teaching about social justice. A Founding Board member of the Jewish Women's Archive, she recently served as Chair of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, and is very active on the Board of the National Yiddish Book Center.

Lynda M. Goldstein
Lynda M. Goldstein is Founder and board Chair of the Jewish Women's Foundation of Colorado. In addition, she is currently on the boards of The Hadassah Foundation, the Director's Council of the Women's Studies in Religion Program at Harvard University Divinity School, the ADL (Anti-Defamation League), the Jewish Free Loan Society, and the Girl Scouts of America. Lynda organized Generations of Giving: Women, Philanthropy and Faith in 2001, exploring intergenerational issues in philanthropy. Her volunteer efforts and philanthropy primarily focus on issues critical to women and girls with a keen interest in strategic funding for social change. She holds a degree from Tufts University and currently resides in Denver. She has 3 children, and two grandsons aged 2 and 4.

Felicia D. Herman
As Executive Director of the Natan Fund, Felicia manages all aspects of innovative private-foundation making grants in North America (Jewish identity) and Israel (economic development and Israel-Diaspora relations). Before this, Felicia was a Research and Program Officer for Jewish Life Network, a private foundation specializing in Jewish communal programs. Felicia received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University, and her B.A. from Wellesley College. Honors and awards include a Research Fellowship at the Feinstein Center for American Jewish History at Temple University and the Rapoport fellowship for doctoral research at the American Jewish Archives.

Ann Kirschner
Ann Kirschner's career has been a rich mix of the academic and business world and of traditional and nontraditional media. She began her career as a lecturer in Victorian literature at Princeton University, where she earned a Ph.D. in English. Her subsequent career as an entrepreneur in media and technology included the creation of businesses in cable and satellite television as well as online businesses for the National Football League and Columbia University. She is currently the University Dean of the Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York and author of Sala's Gift, the story of her mother's wartime rescue of letters from Nazi labor camps.

Karen Secunda Levy
Karen Secunda Levy received her Masters of Teaching degree from Harvard University and worked as a special education teacher. Levy sits on the national board of Facing History and Ourselves, is Chair of the Program Committee of Young Audiences of Massachusetts, and is on the board and a Vice President of the Handel and Haydn Society. A graduate of Wellesley College, Levy has been active at Wellesley College Hillel as both chair and newsletter editor.

Anne H. Meyer
Anne Meyer has been a practicing attorney at Goulston & Storrs in Boston since 1981 where she is a partner in the real estate department. In addition to her commercial real estate practice, she devotes significant time to pro bono matters, particularly representation of affordable housing developers in Boston and Cambridge. A graduate of Wesleyan University, Anne earned a Masters of Public Health from the University of Michigan and a J.D. degree from Boston College Law School. She sees JWA "as a living tribute to Jewish women who have played a role in the advancement of women, families and communities," and says, "Being part of JWA reminds me of the importance of documenting, preserving and teaching the achievements of all Jewish women in our society."

Linda Morse
Linda Morse brings years of experience in information technology and strategic planning, as well as organization building, business development, and leadership skills. As CEO and COO for a dot com start-up company specializing in providing internet transactions between governments and their constituents, and Vice President of American Management Systems, Inc., she was part of a leadership team that built a multi-billion dollar, publicly traded, information systems and management consulting firm. Linda has had a career-long special interest in women's work and work-life issues. She has mentored large numbers of women and developed personnel policies – including Princeton University's 1970 maternity policy which became an industry standard – as well as early flex time and job-sharing policies. In 2002, Linda "realized a dream" when she created String, a hand-knitting boutique in New York City that offers a unique collection of the most luxurious yarns available, in addition to workshops, classes and events. Her book Luxury Knitting: the Ultimate Guide to Exquisite Yarns – Cashmere, Merino, Silk has been called a "must-have for any serious knitter." As for joining the JWA board this year, Linda says, "I am excited to have the opportunity to work with JWA, an organization whose mission is to honor our grandmothers and mothers, provide role models for our daughters, and inspire our granddaughters."

Beth W. Newburger
Beth W. Newburger is the President/CEO of Epoch Communications, a marketing consulting company serving the historic preservation community. Prior to joining Epoch, she was Director of Communications at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, held executive positions with several media companies and started and sold eight profitable businesses. She was a senior political appointee under the Clinton Administration where she co-chaired a Presidential and a Congressional Commission on women's history. In addition to her professional career, Newburger is former Chair and presently a trustee of the Capital Children's Museum, a member of the board of directors of Arena Stage, the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Advisory Board, the National Women's Hall of Fame and the Boat Owners Association of the United States. A Cornell University graduate, she has been listed in Who's Who in America since 1986 and Who's Who in the World since 1998.

Sarah Perry, Clerk
Sarah Perry has worked extensively in the social enterprise sector, and as a consultant to for-profit businesses. A graduate of Harvard Business School, with a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, she has most recently served as Executive Director of The Community Action Partners of the Harvard Business School Alumni Association of Boston, which provides pro bono consulting services to non-profit organizations. She also served as Managing Director of Community Wealth Ventures, a for-profit subsidiary of Share Our Strength. Perry is a frequent lecturer and panelist on social enterprise for non-profits, and is an active supporter of numerous non-profits, The Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum, The Boston Foundation, and WBUR public radio, and serves on the Temple Emanuel Sisterhood Board of Directors.

Barbara Ellison Rosenblit
Barbara Ellison Rosenblit won the Covenant Award in 2004 for being an exceptional Jewish educator, and has received numerous accolades for her ability to integrate Jewish and secular learning. She is a teacher of humanities and tanakh and Director of Mentoring at the Weber School, a transdenominational Jewish high school in Atlanta, Georgia. Barbara taught at the Melton Adult Mini-School and continues to teach adults in a variety of settings. During her 15 years at The Epstein Solomon Schechter School in Atlanta she taught in the lower and middle schools, served as Curriculum Coordinator and the school's first middle school director. Barbara's wide-ranging interests have taken her Jerusalem to study at the Pardes Institute, to Siena, Italy to study Dante under the auspices of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and to Japan as recipient of a Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund award. "The mission and materials of JWA have changed my teaching and changed me, too," says Barbara, "They helped pull me out of my fascination with the Biblical period and into an awareness of the power and importance of women whose lives can guide mine."

Susan Levin Schlechter
Susan Levin Schlechter is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at New York University's Steinhardt School of Education, instructing students becoming English teachers. Born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, Schlechter has a Ph.D. in English education from NYU and taught high school English in New York City for 14 years. Schlechter is on the board of the Abraham Joshua Heschel School, an independent Jewish day school in New York City, and JBI International (formerly the Jewish Braille Institute of America).

Carol Shalita Smokler
Carol Shalita Smokler is a clinical psychologist with post-doctoral training in Sport Psychology. She has worked with athletes and teams at the collegiate, professional, and Olympic levels, as well as weekend warriors, teaching them performance enhancement skills. Her first love, however, is the volunteer work she does in the Jewish community. Currently, Carol is the chair of the UJC Emergency Committee. She sits on the Board of Governors and Board of Directors of Hillel International where she is Chair of the Human Resources Committee and a member of Executive Committee. She recently joined the Board of JCPA. In her local community, South Palm Beach County, she has served as chair of the Israel-Overseas Committee and member of the Federation Executive Committee.

Marian Scheuer Sofaer
Marian Scheuer Sofaer is an attorney who handled Holocaust restitution claims in eastern Germany after reunification. Prior to that, she worked as an Assistant Attorney General of the New York State Department of Law, as an Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of New York, and in private practice. She is a producer of the film Poumy about a young Jewish mother's role in the French Resistance in WWII. She is project director for the exhibition in the restored synagogue in Chennamangalam near Cochin in India, and she edited and published Hanukkah in Eight Nights: Bring the Past to Light, a holiday handbook for families. She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and Columbia Law School and is currently working on a new arbitration service, Federal Arbitration, Inc.

Prudence L. Steiner
Prudence Steiner is a member of the Founding Board of the Jewish Women's Archive. In addition to her engagement with JWA, she is also a board member and past president of Harvard Hillel. She has served as an instructor in the English Department of Harvard University, and Director of the Harvard University Extension School's Writing Program. Her extra-familial work is as a translator; her translation of Voltaire's Philosophical Letters was published by Hackett in 2007, and a translation of Molière's Tartuffe will appear in the fall of 2008. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and rejoices in two married children and five small grandchildren.

Nancy Schwartz Sternoff
Nancy Schwartz Sternoff has served as Director of the Dobkin Family Foundation since 1998, where she gives technical assistance to programs and organizations funded by the foundation. She spent five years as Executive Director of the Women's Department at The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore, and was the first and only Women's Campaign director in any major city to be promoted to Vice President at the Federation. Sternoff chaired the first CJF/UJA Women's Division Professional Institute and has served as National Director of the National Republican Coalition for Choice and as senior aide to former Congressman John Miller of Washington. A Founding Board member of the Jewish Women's Archive, she serves on the boards of American Jewish World Service and the Jewish Funders Network.

Nicki Newman Tanner
A Founding Board member of the Jewish Women's Archive, Nicki Newman Tanner is a trustee of several institutions, including the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, WNYC (New York's public radio stations), Hebrew Union College, and the UJA-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, where she chairs the Oral History Project. On the Board of Wellesley College for 18 years, Tanner co-chaired the capital campaign for Wellesley that broke all fundraising records for liberal arts colleges and debunked the myth that women do not give as much as men.

Jeane Ungerleider
The Director of Psychological Services at Boston IVF, a reproductive medicine clinic, Jeane Ungerleider is Chair of the Boston IVF's Ethics Committee. She consults with medical staff and works with individuals and couples in consultation and psychotherapy, and leads workshops on various aspects of infertility and issues of third party reproduction in family building. Ungerleider is Director of the Dorot Foundation and of the Union Square Fund. She received her Masters degree from Simmons College School of Social Work.

Carol B. Wise
Formerly Regional Marketing Director for a national real estate company, Carol Wise is now a marketing consultant, developing marketing plans and strategies for a variety of clients, including financial institutions, small businesses, real estate developers and institutions of higher education. She has served as President of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans, and Chair of the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce. Wise serves on the Executive Committee and Board of the Hillel International Foundation and serves as President of Tulane Hillel. She is a Commissioner of the Vieux Carré Commission and is past Chair and a founding member of the Women's Leadership Initiative of the United Way of New Orleans and Success by 6 United Way Collaborative.

Diane Wohl
Diane Wohl, a past president of her Conservative synagogue, is a past chair of the Long Island Women's Campaign of the UJA. She is an endowed Lion of Judah, a member of the Giving Circle of the Jewish Women's Federation, and on the Advisory Committee of the Caring Commission. Diane is very involved with Hillel at Hofstra University and also sits on both the International Board of Governors and National Board of Directors of Hillel. She also is a member of the Gurwin Jewish Foundation Board which oversees a nursing facility and assisted living complex. Diane is focused on building a strong Jewish connection in the Former Soviet Union through Hillel, Project Kesher and Limmud. Diane and Howard, her husband of 37 years, have three children and four grandchildren.

Rose Zoltek-Jick
Rose Zoltek-Jick has been teaching at Northeastern University School of Law for over twenty years, specializing in criminal law and procedure, evidence, and law and psychiatry. She has also taught at Boston University School of Law and at Harvard Law School. Her academic writing has focused on statutes of limitation, cold cases, and civil lawsuits on cases of sexual abuse. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto, Osgoode Hall Law School and Harvard Law School. She serves on the boards of the Jewish Women’s Archive, Lilith Magazine and Shakespeare and Company and is an Overseer at the DeCordova Museum of Art and Sculpture.