Staff & Board

Jewish Film Institute Staff

Executive Director
Lexi Leban

Chief Operations Officer
Wendy Bear

Program Director
Jay Rosenblatt

Marketing & Communications Manager
Jamie Cohen

Director of Philanthropy
Ken Levin

Programmer
Joshua Moore

Development Coordinator
Hayliegh Thompson

Administrative Coordinator
Rosie Heller

Board of Directors

CO-CHAIRS
Diana Grand
Sandee Blechman

SECRETARY
Jennifer H. Rosenthal

TREASURER
Janet Schneider

MEMBERS
Liki Abrams
Benjamin Berkowitz
Dan Granoff
Ralph Guggenheim
Susan Mall
David Meckler
Jenni Olson
Susan Libitzky
Toby Rubin
Eileen Ruby 
Lloyd Sacks
Sam Salkin

Festival Staff

Marketing
Anna Morris, Marketing & PR Intern
Donna Steger, Print Broker
Miguel Pendás, Copy Editor

 

Guest Relations
Aglaia Gelpke, Guest Relations Manager
Brian Freeman, Driver
David Gemingiani, Driver
David Gutierrez, Driver
Texas Starr, Driver

Operations
Natalia Arevelo, Operations Manger
Ian Stewart , Volunteer Manager
Chris Powell, Film Traffic Manager
Kurtis Lee Hermes, Assistant Film Traffic Manager
Jessica Jazayeri, Venue Manager

Box Office provided by Box Cubed
Mitchell Vaughn
Ben Armington
Natasha Hoover

Publicity
Larsen Associates, Publicists
Karen Larsen
Joel Shepard
Nikolaj Leszczynski

Special Events
Leftwich Events Specialists, Inc

Festival Trailer
Where the Buffalo Roam

Festival Screeners
Margot Breier
Bonnie Burt
Audrey Daniel
Barbara Davis
Gail Evenari
Myra Feiger
Valerie Lapin Ganley
Ruth Gummit
Karen Holmes
Marcia Jarmel
Nancy Kates
Vivian Kleiman
Jan Krawitz
Gabriele Lange
Moshe Levin
David Liu
Shevi Loewinger
Judith Montell
Ken Paul Rosenthal
Kris Samuelson
Emmy Scharlatt
Ken Schneider
Harvey Schwartz
Susan Stern
Mark Valentine
David Volansky
Diane Wolf