Fern Chertok served as the Director of Advising and Field Experience Programs in the Hornstein Professional Jewish Leadership Program. She is a community psychologist and was the editor of “Researching Community Psychology: Issues of Theory and Methods.” As part of the Hornstein program, Fern taught courses in program evaluation and organizational behavior. Fern has been involved in a variety of research projects including studies of the experiences and preferences of interfaith families, economic insecurity in Jewish households, the organizational health of synagogues, the Jewish identities and participation of young adults, and innovation in Jewish community centers and synagogues. Fern has also conducted extensive research on volunteerism in the Jewish community. In addition to her research and teaching, she has conducted training and consultation for a variety of Jewish communal organizations including synagogues, day schools and federations. You can browse Fern Chertok publications here.

Laurie Beijen works in real estate investment and management, after a lengthy career in political and policy communications. She has a long history of non-profit volunteer work. Laurie started her 18Doors involvement over 7 years ago on the Leadership Council for 18Doors in the Bay Area, then started her service on the national board. As a member of the 18Doors national board, Laurie served on then chaired the program committee before becoming national board chair. Laurie also serves on the JCRC- San Francisco board.

Laurie is actively involved with Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco. In the past, Laurie served as the founding president of the San Francisco Women’s Political Committee, as well as the president of the National Women’s Political Caucus- SF Chapter. She has also served as the vice-president of the board of the California Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (CARAL, which was the California affiliate of NARAL- now Reproductive Freedom for All), chair of the CARAL PAC Board and chair of its political committee. She lives with her interfaith family in San Francisco, California. Her family has been involved in the interfaith community in San Francisco for a long time and building and sustaining this community is very important to her.

For over 30 years, Rick Franklin has provided audit, accounting, tax and consulting services to Warady & Davis LLP (W&D) clients in a wide variety of industries, including manufacturing, distribution, real estate, construction, finance, not-for-profit and numerous service industries. As immediate past Co-Managing Partner of W&D, Rick continues to lead strategic initiatives across the firm including growth strategies, new business development and strategic alliances with third party service providers. He currently serves as a member of the Illinois General Assembly’s Public Accountant Registration Committee and is the past Chairman of the Illinois CPA Society’s Ethics Committee. As part of the AICPA’s Peer Review program, in the past, Rick conducted many reviews of other certified public accounting firms.

Carol Golder is a retired marketing executive. She has always been active in the non-profit world as a volunteer and board member. After the sale of her and her husband’s digital communication company, she dedicated her time to working with organization that are focused on equity, justice and creating a society that is more welcoming to all. These organizations have involved housing, education, social services and social change. She raised Jewish children in an interfaith household and was fortunate to be part of an embracing Jewish community. After her children grew up, she decided to convert to Judaism. She lives with her husband David in Glencoe, IL.

Rabbi Scott Hausman-Weiss was ordained by HUC in Cincinnati, OH in 1999, with an MA in Jewish Education and Hebrew Letters.  He studied at HUC in Jerusalem and LA, as well as the UJ Rabbinic program.  In his first pulpit at Temple Emanuel as the Rabbinic Director of Education and Outreach, he served the Jewish community of Birmingham, AL for 12 years.  After serving Congregation Emanu El in Houston, TX, Rabbi Scott became the founding Rabbi of Congregation Shma Koleinu (CSK) in Houston.  Shma Koleinu, now in its 10^th year, is a synagogue without walls, membership, or dues that operates on 100% voluntary contributions.  We serve all Jews, Jewish families and those who love them, and our motto is, “Join us…you already belong.” Rabbi Scott has grown in his rabbinate over the years, as a Rukin Rabbinic Fellow of 18Doors, a Rabbinic Fellow of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality, a certified facilitator of Brene Brown’s “The Daring Way,” and a trained instructor for Ayeka, Soulful Education.  Rabbi Scott is married to Natalie, and their children are Abraham (26) and Samuel (22). 

Deborah Kim is a seasoned Technology Executive, with 20+ years of experience leading Strategic Partnerships and Marketing at both large companies (Apple, Amazon, and Citigroup) as well as startups at various stages of growth. Deborah received a B.A. in Electrical Engineering from Brown University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where she also ran her first of 12 Boston Marathons. She currently lives in San Francisco with her interfaith family, composed of her husband and their three children.

Sarah Levitin is a Senior Organizational Transformation Consultant at Mass General Brigham. She is also a Career/Branding Coach, Resume/LinkedIn Redesigner and Chair of Boston’s Ellevate Network Chapter. She holds a BA in International Studies, Russian Studies and Spanish Studies from Muhlenberg College, an MBA from Boston University’s Questrom School of Business and a career coaching certification from The Academies. In her spare time, you can find her soaking in the joys of being a new mom, taking her two dogs on hikes, reading mystery books, and taking barre and Zumba classes. 

Noah Marwil is a Principal within Korn Ferry’s global healthcare executive search practice. He has spent the past 15+ years working in healthcare strategy and transformation, both globally and domestically, first implementing public health and education programs across Asia, Africa and Latin America, and then as a Senior Manager in PwC’s healthcare mergers and acquisitions practice. Most recently, he served as VP of Strategy and Execution within Elevance’s health services division. Noah received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado and earned a dual master’s in business and health policy & management with honors from Emory University in Atlanta, where he lives today with his wife and twin daughters.

Alicia Oberman is Senior Strategist, Volunteer Leadership at Leading Edge. Before Boardified was acquired by Leading Edge, she was Founder & Chief Experience Officer of Boardified. Alicia deeply understands the challenges of volunteer leaders and those who work alongside them. She is committed to meaningfully engaging with leaders in what she calls their “extra, extra time” (i.e., the time they spend to further develop themselves in their volunteer roles). She encourages everyone she works with to seek a state of “inspired excellence,” recognizing that the most successful leaders are viscerally inspired by their work and take ownership and pride in how they approach all of their commitments (especially those for which they volunteer).

In her own “extra” time, Alicia currently serves on the Boards of Directors of, and in advisory capacities to, a number of nonprofit organizations, including: the Goldie Initiative (Executive and Governance Committees), 18Doors, Leading Edge (Governance Committee), and the Melanoma Tissue Bank Consortium. Alicia lives in Chicago, has three daughters, and enjoys running outside, and reading for leisure.

Linda Silberman has served on the Board of Trustees at the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. She has also been the Co-Chair of Premier Gifts for the Federation Community Campaign 2017 through 2022 and the President of Women’s Philanthropy in 2019. She also has served on the board of Jewish Kids Groups as the Chair of Development and most recently as Chair of the Board.

Linda helped start the PJ Library advisory committee for the Atlanta Federation. She also served on the Alliance Theatre Advisory Board in Atlanta. Served as President of the sisterhood at Temple Kehillat Chaim, Roswell, Ga. She has four amazing kids, six grandkids, and enjoys biking, painting, traveling and is an admitted TV junkie.

Barbara (Bobbi) Wasserman has been involved with the 18Doors legacy since its inception in the Philadelphia area in 1999. Begun as the Jericho Project, her family was honored by Jewish Family and Children’s Services (JFCS) and her parents, Leonard and Dorothy Wasserman, of blessed memory, felt this was an area needing special awareness and funding in the Philadelphia community. That led to InterfaithWays, then InterfaithFamily and now 18Doors. Bobbi is married with two children, one of whom is in an interfaith marriage. She has one granddaughter and one on the way! Bobbi has been a Residential Realtor for 33 years in the Philadelphia area with Berkshire Hathaway Homeservices Fox and Roach Realtors. She has been the President of the Auxiliary of Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia (now Jefferson Medical Center) for the last six years.

Anthony Witte is the founder of Witte’s End Consulting, a diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging firm. He has over 20 years’ experience as an educator, from teaching to leading DEIB work. After completing an Asian Studies degree at U.C. Berkeley and living in Asia for two years, he did graduate work in Equity and Social Justice at San Francisco State, which ignited a passion for helping people from all backgrounds move from awareness to social action. He is a founding member of the San Francisco Equity Leaders diversity consortium and a board member of People of Color in Independent Schools (POCIS). He has presented nationally at educational conferences and co-authored Diversity Work in Independent Schools: The Practice and the Practitioner and Belonging: Assessing the ‘B’ in DEIB Work. He gets naches from his interfaith, multiracial family and hopes to help more interfaith families find joy and belonging in Jewish life.