JCER
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The co-Executive Directors of JCER are Mik Moore and Ari Wallach.
Mik has fourteen years of experience working in the often overlapping worlds of communications, politics, and the Jewish community. He is currently on leave from Jewish Funds for Justice, where he serves as Chief Communications Officer. Mik serves on the board of The Jewish Week and is board chair of the Jewish Student Press Service. He studied at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, spent a year in Israel with the Zionist youth movement Young Judaea, and holds a B.A. from Vassar College and a J.D. from Georgetown Law.
Ari has been working at the intersection of business, politics and communications for over 12 years. He is currently on leave from the consulting firm of studioBenZion (sBZ) and was formerly VP of Corporate Development at Seed Media Group, where he was responsible for strategic alliances and business development. He serves on the board of the American Jewish Committee’s ACCESS program and has been a past participant of the Hillel Spitzer Forum, The Bronfman Reboot initiative and The Jewish Week’s “The Conversation.” He was born in Guadalajara, Mexico and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area by the artist Susan Wallach and the late Raul Wallach.
Ari’s father, a Polish-born partisan with the Jewish underground in W.W. II, was hailed by Sen. Harry Reid as “a national treasure” upon his passing. He holds a B.A. from the University Of California, Berkeley.
Sara Kaplan-Levenson - National Outreach Coordinator
Sara has been working in the fields of health, mental health and health-related research for several years. Her current interests focus on the intersection of health, media, and policy. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from Wesleyan University and is pursuing a dual Masters in Public Health and Social Work from Columbia University.
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