SRE NETWORK - Key Persons
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- Senior Manager of Marketing and Communications / Delray Beach, Florida
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- President & CEO / Leichtag Foundation
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- Founder of Transform for Equity
- Senior Advisor for Culture & Belonging / Washington, DC
Dr. Deitra Reiser, (she/her) is the founder of Transform for Equity, LLC, an antiracist repair group that supports organizations and leaders in building the capacity for diversity, racial equity, and belonging. Dr. Reiser partners with organizations across the country using the framework of intersectionality to dismantle systems of oppression. She is passionate about fostering racial equity and justice within organizations with a particular interest in addressing anti-Black racism and anti-Jewish hate. Deitra partners with nonprofits, synagogues, government agencies, and corporations to further racial equity and justice within the organization. She believes that organizations will transform into equitable spaces by first focusing on individual internal change which then drives intentional systemic change. Deitra fosters greater antiracist understanding among individuals and within institutions and supports their continued growth through thoughts and actions. Her focus is on driving the internal work necessary in order to achieve transformational and lasting change. She has partnered with the Union for Reform Judaism, National Park Services, and NCJW along with other organizations across the country. Deitra has over 20 years of experience as a school psychologist and educator.
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- Research Associate
- Senior Advisor on Research and Learning
- Senior Advisor, Research & Learning / Toronto, Canada
Dr. Guila Benchimol (she/her/hers) is the Senior Advisor on Research and Learning with the SRE Network and was one of the key advisors who guided its launch in early 2018. As a researcher and public educator on sexual violence, she has crafted standards and policies for Jewish workplaces, institutions, and communal spaces and has been invited to address Jewish professionals and clergy across Canada and the US, as well as other faith communities. Guila is also trained in restorative and transformative justice facilitation.
Guila serves as a Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Social and Legal Responses to Violence, where she works on projects related to homicide and domestic violence deaths, and sits on the board of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP). Her first career as a Jewish educator informed her understanding of the need to address victimization of all kinds in Jewish communities. She was the Director of Judaic Studies at Tiferes Bais Yaakov where she also taught grades 9 through 12. She was also the Managing Director for the National Conference of Synagogue Youth in Canada, where she founded and directed an international camp for high school girls. Guila lives in Toronto and was raised in the Spanish Moroccan Jewish community there which was built by the families who fled Tangiers.
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- Global Equity and Inclusion Specialist
- Inclusion Specialist
Gamal Palmer is a Global Equity and Inclusion Specialist and a committed SRE Network Advisory Board member.
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- Advisory Board Chair / Co - President
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- Senior Advisor / New York, NY
- Senior Advisor With
Nancy K. Kaufman (she/her) is a Senior Advisor with SRE Network, with a focus on engaging and empowering senior-level and mid-level Jewish women professionals. She previously served on the founding Advisory Board of SRE Network. Nancy has had a distinguished career as a public servant, advocate, and non-profit leader, and runs a strategic consulting and coaching practice serving nonprofit organizational leaders.
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- Executive Director / Washington, D.C.
- Expert in the Field of Relational Engagement
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- Community Manager / Los Angeles, California
- Senior Community Manager / Los Angeles, California
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- Senior Director of Strategic Operations / Boston, Massachusetts