Elliot Mamet (’10) is a political scientist serving as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow. His research interests include the relationship between democracy and incarceration, and the political legacies of U.S. empire, and his writing on these topics have appeared in journals including Political Theory, American Political Thought, and State Politics & Policy Quarterly. Continue Reading »
Stephanie Berger (’17) recently graduated from WashU in St. Louis. Starting a career in environmental and food justice, she will be working for the NYC Department of Education at their environmental center in Brooklyn, doing urban farming and environmental education. Stephanie spent the first 18 years of her life in Massachusetts, where she was active Continue Reading »
Daphna Ezrachi (Amitei Bronfman ‘05) is a Senior Project Manager at NYC’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development. Upon joining HPD, Daphna completed her Masters in Urban Planning from NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service. Before pivoting to urban planning and housing policy, Daphna was an educator in Jerusalem, where she grew up. Daphna has worked Continue Reading »
Hilary Caplan Somorjai is Director, West Coast Admissions, at Harvard Business School. She has worked for HBS since 2003. Prior to working for HBS, she worked at Oracle Corporation in the education line of business focusing on strategy and marketing. She currently serves on the Silicon Valley Advisory Council for Common Sense Media and has Continue Reading »
Dr. Kira Sheinerman (Bronfman parent ’17) is the co-founder and CEO of DiamiR, a life sciences company developing blood-based diagnostic solutions for brain health diseases. She is also a Managing Director, Investment Banking at H.C. Wainwright & Co. where she works on financial and strategic transactions for growth biotech companies. Kira serves on the Board Continue Reading »
Ryder Kessler (Bronfman ’03) works on Democratic political campaigns and in voting rights advocacy. Before working in politics, he founded and was the CEO of DipJar – a startup working to enable cashless generosity through facilitation of credit and debit card donations – and pursued (but did not complete) a PhD in English literature. Ryder Continue Reading »
Alisa Mall (Bronfman ’94) is managing director, corporate strategy at Foresite Capital. Prior to this, she was the Carnegie Corporation’s director of investments, primarily responsible for the management of the Corporation’s real estate and natural resources portfolios, which represent ~15% of the philanthropic foundation’s $3.6 billion endowment. She also works on absolute return and inflation-linked Continue Reading »
Noam Lockshin (Bronfman ’01) is a partner at Kimmeridge, an investment firm in New York focused on the energy sector. He previously worked as Senior Research Associate at Sanford C. Bernstein on the #1-ranked E&P research team. Noam is a native of Toronto and earned a BA in math from Canada’s York University. Before that, Continue Reading »
Jonathan Wachter (Bronfman ’96), Secretary of the Board, was a director in the chief investment office and global treasury of JPMorgan Chase. He helped manage liquidity strategy for the firm. Before joining JPMorgan, Jonathan was a consultant in the banking practice of McKinsey & Co. and a private equity analyst at the Blackstone Group. Jonathan Continue Reading »
Dana Raucher is President of the Board of Directors. A Bronfman alumna from ’89, she is the Executive Director of The Samuel Bronfman Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation, Dana worked at the Israeli law firm Shiboleth, Yisraeli, Roberts, Zisman & Co. in Tel Aviv. Ms. Raucher is a graduate of Columbia University and the Continue Reading »