Estie Rand
Estie Rand has been helping helping businesses and non-profits improve on minimal budgets for over 14 years. A graduate of Baruch College Zicklin School of Business in New York, Estie is also a Certified Professional Coach. After spending many years finding fulfillment in the non-profit industry, Estie founded Strand Consulting to bring her skills of doing more with less to small business owners. Estie now enjoys every minute of her work helping others reach their earning potential, maximizing themselves, their time and of course, their profits. You can learn more about Estie here.
Rebbetzin Faigie Horowitz
Faigie Horowitz A veteran community activist, Faigie Horowitz has spent more than twenty years in social services both as an executive and as a board member of several non-profits. She holds a Masters in Management Science. She currently is the program coordinator in Touro College’s Career Services Department and is a columnist for Hamodia and Binah Magazine. She serves as the rebbetzin of Congregation Agudas Achim in Lawrence, NY and frequently lectures on life skills and Torah topics. She can be reached at Faigie.Horowitz@touro.edu.
Dr. Ditza Berger
Dr. Ditza Berger received her PhD from the City University of New York and is a New York State Licensed Psychologist. She is a member of the guidance and wellness team at Lander College for Women where she also serves as a faculty adviser for the Department of Psychology. She is is the director of Psychological Evaluation and Remediation Services, locate in Cedarhurst, NY, and serves as a Psychologist at Camp Sternberg where she provides ongoing staff training and support.
Rivka Sender
Rivka Sender is a wife, mother, rebbetzin, and a CPA/ Senior Manager with KPMG. She has recently moved to the US after spending 18 years living in Eretz Yisrael, and working primarily for the KPMG member firm there. Rivka's first love is teaching, with experience both in the US, and in a seminary in Eretz Yisrael, as well a coordinator of touring programs there. She recently founded HaSviva, an organziation geared to supporting frum women in the workplace, in response to the spritiual challenges that she, and others, have faced.
Chaya Fishman
Chaya (Appel) Fishman is the Founder and President of The Jewish Woman Entrepreneur. While pursuing a law degree, Chaya catapulted her vision into reality; she launched The JWE, and in just a few short years, has built an organization with more than 1,000 members and 12 local chapters across America. Currently, Chaya is in her final semester at the University of Maryland School of Law, where she was a Rubin Scholar. Chaya will be working in the corporate practice group at Miles and Stockbridge, LLP, beginning September 2015. Previously, Chaya worked as a financial analyst at Eternity Asset Management and as Founder of Appel Adventures, a creative arts program for girls. She graduated magna cum laude from Lander College for Women, with a BS in Finance. Chaya’s achievements are recognized by many: she is the recipient of the Touro Service Award, was named to the Daily Record’s “Twenty in their Twenties” list, and was chosen as a Forward 50. Chaya resides in Baltimore with her husband, Rabbi Ariel Fishman, and their rambunctious two-year old son.
Nechama Basser
Nechama Basser is the wife of Rabbi Yitzchok Basser, a maggid shiur and Rosh Chaburah in Lakewood, NJ, and mother of 7. She started college at Case Western Reserve University as a music major but somehow ended up with a BA in Comp. Sci. from Touro College. Mrs. Basser started her career as a programmer and technical writer in tech startups. For the last 10 years she has worked at American Express Co. in project management, product development, marketing, and strategy roles, with an odd detour to set up a subsidiary in China. Mrs.Basser sits on the Board of the Center for Health Education, Medicine, and Dentistry of Lakewood, NJ and the steering committee of HaSevivah. In her spare time she enjoys – never mind, the last time she had spare time was 2003.
Janette Levey Frisch
Janette Levey Frisch, Founder of The Emplawyerologist Firm, has over 20 years' experience as an attorney, has worked as in-house counsel in the temporary staffing industry, has authored articles on many different employment law issues for many publications, and works with employers on most any employment law issue, -acting as the Employer’s Legal Wellness Professional- to ensure that employers are in the best position possible to avoid avoid litigation, audits, employee relations problems, and the attendant, often exorbitant costs. Janette can be reached by phone at 732-902-0728 and by email at theemplawyerologist@gmail.com. You can visit Janette’s blog at www.theemplawyerologist.com.
Sharon Green
Sharon Green is an experienced attorney who counsels and advises clients on a variety of legal matters and issues. Core to her practice is her work with nonprofit and charitable organizations, assisting them in state incorporation and compliance matters, drafting articles and bylaws, litigation matters, applying for tax-exempt status, and IRS audits. With an LL.M in taxation and an MBA, Sharon is able to successfully advise start up charitable organizations on corporate structure, business plans, fundraising and marketing programs, grant applications, and government contracts.
Chanie Jacobowitz
Chanie Jacobowitz has been the Director of Government Affairs at Beth Medrash Govoha since 2002. BMG, “The Lakewood Yeshiva”, is the country’s largest Yeshiva with more than 6,800 students, and Mrs. Jacobowitz is involved with internal management and compliance as well as initiatives and advocacy to benefit the Lakewood community as a whole. In this capacity, Mrs. Jacobowitz supervises the managers of several departments that together comprise more than 55 full and part-time employees. Mrs. Jacobowitz is also a Board Member of CHEMED/LRRC, a Federally Qualified Health Center and social services organization serving more than 22,000 patients and clients.
Previously, Mrs. Jacobowitz was the Site Director of the Shorefront Jewish Community Council serving the needs of the low-income Russian immigrant community in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, a role which enabled her to draw on her experience over several summers as a volunteer counselor at a kiruv camp in the Ukraine. She attended BJJ seminary and went on to earn her B.A. in Psychology from Touro College in 1998 and her Master’s in Social Work with a concentration in Community Organization and Administration from Yeshiva University - Wurzweiler School of Social Work in 2002.
Suzannah Raff
Suzannah Raff, MScA, MSW is a Career Coach and Marketing/Digital Media Consultant in private practice in Rockland County, NY. Suzannah has a broad range of Human Resources, Marketing and Technology expertise having worked through the years with NASDAQ technology start-up companies like Net2Phone designing software and websites for her clients as well as creating viral marketing and social media campaigns. Suzannah has had the pleasure of working with big brands such as Walgreen’s, Costco, MiracleSuit, the US Navy Exchange and Nike as well as smaller niche brands such as Jew in the City, The Sephardic Legacy Series, and OmniChannel Health Media. Suzannah is also the creator of her own successful niche blog, The Kosher Shophaholic. Today, she combines her education and experience counseling clients on career paths and strategies as well as teaching Management and Entrepreneurship classes for college. Suzannah holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from McGill University in Montreal, Canada as well as a Master of Science in Administration from Concordia University in Canada and a Master of Social Work degree from Adelphi University in New York. She can be reached at www.raffbusiness.com.
Sara Brejt
Sara Brejt, Esq., CPC, a Career/Life Coach with The Step BEFORE Parnassah, is certified to administer today's popular career-assessment tools. Having worked formerly as both a practicing attorney and a kiruv professional, she integrates strong professionalism with solid hashkafic-grounding. And, as a woman who is herself returning to the workforce - after a hiatus to raise her family, ka”h - she guides her clients through the process of self-assessment and career choice, in a warm, accepting atmosphere."
Sori Leshkowitz
Sori Leshkowitz is founder and writer-in-chief at Stellar Resumes. She develops high-impact resumes, cover letters, and LinkedIn profiles that help professionals and executives take their careers to the next level. With her highly acclaimed personal-level service, Sori has perfected the art of capturing each client’s personal brand and communicating that value to employers. You can reach her at sori@stellarresumes.net.
Brocha Miller
Brocha Miller is a freelance writer specializing in business communications and marketing. She also publishes fiction and feature articles in Binah magazine, Mishpacha magazine and other national papers.