ROBERTA CATALINOTTO: A few years ago a Limmud weekend retreat in Sonoma County, California had a profound impact on my life, so I’m beyond excited about being a member of the Limmud North America Board! Looking back on my 32-year career, I’m grateful that my work has enabled me to partner with great organizations, helping them to find the resources to advance their missions and/or to grow. I’ve led development operations for two national museums (the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum), three Jewish Federations (Orange County, California, Los Angeles and San Francisco), the Jewish Agency for Israel, and now at the environmental justice organization, Friends of the Urban Forest. Originally from New York City, I’ve also lived in Israel, Washington D.C., Southern California and for the last fifteen years, in the San Francisco Bay Area. My husband, Bernard, is a map publisher, and we have two married sons and two toddler grandchildren.

A nonprofit leader advancing climate action, coexistence, Jewish life and the arts, SONIA CUMMINGS currently serves on the boards of Adamah and Artis. In 2019, in recognition for her work for “I Am Your Protector”,  the UN honored her with a Pioneer and Leadership Award for combating hate and antisemitism. Sonia is also a multidisciplinary artist focusing on memory and legacy, Wexner Leadership fellow and holds a Certificate on Impact Investing from NYU. Prior to becoming a community leader and environmental activist, she worked in the design industry in product development, marketing, licensing and trend forecasting in Asia, France and the US.  Sonia and her husband James vote in CA.

DONNA FRIEDMAN MEIR is a passionate Jewish community builder and currently the Board Chair for Limmud North America. She creates inspiring and meaningful Jewish experiences for people of all ages and stages.  Donna is also a Jewish Studio Project Facilitator and a recent graduate of the M² – The Institute for Experiential Jewish Education’s Senior Educators Cohort.  Over the past 25+ years, Donna has worked as a creative leader and brand builder of kids and family media content for the world’s most respected global brands, including National Geographic, Warner Brothers, and Nickelodeon.  Residing in the Bay Area (though a New Yorker through and through!), Donna is a fearless globetrotter and a dedicated mom of two evolving young adults.

ELIANA LEADER is the Director of the Kaplan Mitchell Retreat Center at Ramah Darom, and a long-time Jewish professional and experienced community builder. Eliana has passionately served the Jewish world through professional roles such as the Executive Director of Cong. Ohr HaTorah, and Experience Imagineer and curriculum developer for Jewish Kids Groups. She also serves the Jewish community through a variety of local volunteer roles and currently serves on the Executive Board of Limmud North America. She has a B.A. in Sociology with a minor in Jewish Studies from the University of Maryland, and a Graduate Certificate in Experiential Jewish Education through the Center for the Jewish Future at Yeshiva University. Eliana was named in 2017 Jewish Atlanta’s 40 Under 40 and is the recipient of the Abe Schwartz Young Leadership Award from the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. She has two incredible daughters, Aria and Solelle.

RICHARD MARKER currently has leadership roles in both the philanthropy sector and the interreligious world. He is an internationally recognized “elder” in the philanthropy space, having had many roles since 1982. He is the Founder of the Institute for Wise Philanthropy and currently is also Faculty Co-Director of the UPenn High Impact Philanthropy Academy. He has been CEO and on the boards of numerous foundations,  and has advised and taught many thousands of funders around the world. He is also Chair Emeritus of the IJCIC, world Jewry’s official consortium that deals with other international religious adjudicatories and was founding Co-Chair of the Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders, comprised of leaders of six world religions. Having lectured or taught in 41 countries, he has been quoted or interviewed by media in numerous countries, and continues to a popular speaker and educator. Marker has degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, Jewish Theological Seminary, and Brown University.  He is married to Mirele Goldsmith, PhD. He has served on the Limmud North America board since 2020.

ARNOLD ROTENBERG is the Director of Congregational Jewish Living at Congregation Gates of Heaven in Schenectady, New York. With over 40 years of experience in synagogue and day school education, he leads the congregation’s religious school, adult learning, and community programs. Arnold holds degrees in Psychology, Education, and Educational Leadership from the University of Denver and the University of Colorado Denver, and is passionate about creating meaningful opportunities for lifelong Jewish learning.

ANITA SILVERT is a rabbi and independent adult Jewish educator, teaching and facilitating Jewish learning all across the country, podcast host of Verses: Where Broadway meets Torah, and founder of Limmud Chicago.

RABBI DAVID SINGER is CEO of Limmud North America. Named by the Jewish Daily Forward as one of America’s Most Inspiring Rabbis, he previously served as Executive Director of UC San Diego Hillel and, before that, Associate Rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel in Dallas, where he was the Director and Founder of Makom, a young spiritual community recognized by Slingshot 14-15 as one of the most innovative Jewish organizations in North America.

David received rabbinic ordination at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in 2012 and is a graduate of Clal’s Clergy Leadership Incubator and Rabbis Without Borders. David studied history at the University of California, Berkeley and is a graduate of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies. He is the author of many articles as well as “Yisrael Sheli,” a religious school textbook about Israel.

David lives in Dallas, TX, and is married to Danielle Rugoff, with whom he raises their son, Ezra.

SUZANNE SWIFT is the Direc­tor of the JBC Net­work Jew­ish Book Coun­cil. Pri­or to that she was the pro­gram direc­tor at Val­ley of the Sun JCC. Additionally, she was the co-founder of Limmud AZ. Suzanne has a degree in Art with a minor in both Psy­chol­o­gy and Edu­ca­tion and cer­ti­fi­ca­tions in both Jew­ish Edu­ca­tion and Jew­ish Fam­i­ly Edu­ca­tion and received a Mas­ters degree from Sper­tus Insti­tute of Juda­ic Stud­ies in Jew­ish Edu­ca­tion and Jew­ish Studies.

ALAN ZEICHICK has worked for the past several decades in technology publishing and marketing, previously with his own media company, which he sold in 2013. Alan recently retired after seven years at Oracle as editor of Java Magazine and creating/curating technical marketing materials for Oracle’s cloud computing, software development, and AI business units. Beyond his tech industry experience, Alan recently completed three years as board chair of the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of Greater Phoenix. Alan also sits on the board of advisors for Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR), a seminary with campuses in New York, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, and Jerusalem; he helped create their distance learning program for synagogues, called College Commons. Alan is also the only lay (non-ordained) member of the Ethics Committee of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR). Alan is on the board of the Center for Jewish Philanthropy (CJP) of Greater Phoenix, as well as the Arizona Faith Network (AFN). Before moving to Phoenix, Alan and his wife Carole lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for 25 years.