Team

Each and every member of our staff and our board is integral to making our community run. From the clergy to our education team to our communications and program heads to our board members—each role is instrumental in making IKAR what it is.

Monica Hirsch
Development Assistant
Natasha Newman Tobin
Interim Assistant Director of Limudim
Zvi Zobin
Membership & Community Engagement Manager
Carrie Bohn
Communications & Development Intern
Samuel Kanter
Teen Coordinator (Rabbinic Intern)
Jess Solomon
Communications & Programs Coordinator
Arianna Sikorski
Database and Systems Manager
Emma Mertens
Education and Rabbinic Assistant
Samuel “Joey” Alleyne
Director of Operations
Lauren Epstein
Development Associate
Christina Saucedo
Rabbinic & Executive Assistant
Gabrielle Romero
ECC Operations & Office Manager
Brooke Wirtschafter
Director of Community Organizing
Andrea Stern Goldberg
Director of Programs
Elad Dvash-Banks
Director of Development and Capital Campaigns
Beth Weisman
Director of Parenting and Admissions, ECC
Jane Rosen
Director of Early Childhood Education
Jessica Emerson McCormick
Director, Jewish Emergent Network
Melissa Balaban
Founder/CEO