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Board of Directors

Alan Cohen

Alan Cohen

Board Chair Alan Cohen

Alan Cohen is the Director of Global Corporate Social Responsibility at Henry Schein, Inc. In this role, Alan reports on the company’s economic, environmental, and social performance and is responsible for the development, coordination and implementation of the vast array of Henry Schein social responsibility activities.

In the past, Alan served as the Senior Director for Strategic Planning…

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Lisa Hersch

Lisa Hersch

Lisa Hersch

Lisa Hersch recently transitioned into private capital and joined Bain Capital, after serving as an Associate Principal with McKinsey & Company, based in New York City, for 6.5 years. She has worked globally across a variety of industries, including consumer electronics, retail, telecom, media, financial services, and consumer products. Her work is largely focused on strategy, sales and marketing,…

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Julie Shaffer

Julie Shaffer

Julie Shaffer

Julie Shaffer is the executive director of the Oreg Foundation in Boulder, Colorado. She is fortunate to be able to combine her personal passions with her professional work in supporting Jewish, environmental, educational, and local community service initiatives. Julie’s varied work life has included non-profit management consulting, preschool director, small business owner, and elementary school teacher.

Julie has been…

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Rochelle Shoretz

Rochelle Shoretz

Secretary Rochelle Shoretz

Rochelle Shoretz, a two-time breast cancer survivor, founded Sharsheret to connect young Jewish women fighting breast cancer following her own diagnosis at age 28. A Centennial Scholar graduate of Barnard College and a Kent Scholar graduate of Columbia Law School, Rochelle served as a law clerk in 1999 to United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

For her…

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Gabby Sirner

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Gabby Sirner is a Communications Manager at Google, where she works with HR teams to deliver people messages to the company’s 20,000 employees. She helps her clients harness the company brand and use an authentic Google voice in the name of finding, growing and keeping top talent.

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Benjamin Weinstein

Benjamin Weinstein is the Co-Chief Investment Officer of Korenvaes Capital. Benjamin joined the event-driven arbitrage desk at HBK Investments in 1998. In 2006, he was promoted to head the US event-driven arbitrage efforts, where he managed assets ranging from $500 million to over $900 million before his departure in 2007. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and graduated…

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Sarah Silver

Sarah Silver works in philanthropy as an advisor to private family foundations. In this role, she works with the board and grantees, and other partners, to transform shared goals for social change into long-term strategies and programs. Sarah’s career is built on her belief that there are many platforms for social change. She worked in journalism, as a documentary producer…

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Jonathan Horowitz

Jonathan Horowitz serves as a Program Officer in the philanthropic services group at J.P. Morgan Private Bank. Jonathan manages the grantmaking programs for foundations working across a diverse range of funding areas, including arts and culture, disability issues, workforce development, and capacity building for the nonprofit sector. Before coming to J.P. Morgan, he worked as a Program Manager for…

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Amy Tobin

Amy Tobin has worked with nonprofit community, arts, and activist organizations for over 17 years. She is committed to fostering communities and social change through collaborative programs and arts events, generally doing anything possible to bring people together in physical proximity.

As the first Executive Director of the David Brower Center since 2007, Amy has been responsible for translating…

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