JArts Staff & Leadership

Meet Our Staff

Laura Conrad Mandel

Executive Director

Jim Ball

PR Manager

Jaime Brody

Collaborations Director

Avital Dayanim

Digital Marketing Specialist

Rachael Farber

Managing Director of Operations

Ariella Honig

Communications & Marketing Director

Dekel Luban

Administrative Manager

Leadership & Advisors

Board of Directors

  • Kerry Epstein,  Chair
  • Chris Wyett, Vice Chair
  • Daniel Navisky,  Clerk
  • Kevin Steinberg, Treasurer
  • Jessica Alpert Silber 
  • Howard Cohen,  Past Chair
  • Ronald M. Druker,  Past Chair
  • Lara Freishtat 
  • Harriet Goldin 
  • Molly Goodman 
  • Rosalind Gorin 
  • Alison Hammer 
  • Morris  Housen 
  • Alison Judd 
  • Bonnie Margulies 
  • Sam Mendoza Fraiman
  • Lorre Polinger 
  • Suzanne G. Priebatsch 
  • David Orlinoff
  • Sari Rapkin
  • Alan Rottenberg 
  • Carey Schwartz 
  • Barry Shrage 
  • Paula  Sidman,  Past Chair
  • Gerald  Slavet,  Past Chair
  • Caron Tabb 
  • Barry Weisman

Founders

  • Joey Baron, Founding Artistic Director
  • Robert L. Beal, z”l
  • Julie & Ronald M. Druker
  • The Klarman Family Foundation
  • The Krupp Family Foundation
  • Myra Musicant & Howard Cohen
  • Michael B. Rukin Charitable Foundation
  • Sidman Family Foundation
  • Susan & Gerald Slavet
  • Millicent C. Starr Charitable Trust
  • Wolk Family & Cross Country Group

Emeritus

  • Michael Miller , Past Chair
  • Hankus Netsky

Artistic Advisors

JArts Artistic Advisors include our Ambassadors, Art Think Tank, Food Think Tank and Theatreworks.

  • Jen Adelson
  • Yael Alkalay
  • Julie Altman
  • Linda Apple
  • Michelle Barmazel Steinberg
  • Ariel Basson Freiberg
  • Lizzie Bell
  • Joan Blair
  • Jeremy Brick
  • Noah Clickstein
  • Jessica Coughlin
  • Carol Daynard
  • Richard Daynard
  • Simona Di Nepi
  • Rabbi Dani Eskow
  • Jeff Gabel
  • Jesse Garlick
  • Elisha Gechter
  • Sam Gechter
  • Catharyn Gildesgame
  • Lenny Goldstein
  • Rachel Hammerman
  • Stuart Hecht
  • Sidney Hutter
  • Stephanie Kessler
  • Diane Knopf
  • Sari Korman
  • Dena Kowaloff
  • Cecilia Kremer
  • Liana Krupp
  • Tom Lerental
  • Dan Levenson
  • Lilia Levitina
  • Michael Leviton
  • Wendy Liebow
  • Joshua Luckens
  • Josh Mann
  • Audrey Markoff
  • Jen Mergel
  • Joshua Meyer
  • Annette Miller
  • Shoshana Narva
  • Elizabeth Navisky
  • Tandee Newman
  • Dori Robinson
  • Ellen Rovner
  • Shirah Rubin
  • Shelley Sackett
  • Beth Schenker
  • Nina Schneider
  • Avi Shemtov
  • Barbra Sher
  • Rebecca Smith
  • Tova Speter
  • Julie Starr
  • Allyson Steinmetz
  • Margalit Tepper
  • Barbara Wallace Grossman
  • Dani Weinstein

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