Mayberg Foundation Staff

Todd J. Sukol


Executive Director

Todd J. Sukol

Todd J. Sukol has worked in and around the nonprofit and philanthropic sector most of his career. He serves as Executive Director of the Mayberg Foundation where he oversees the foundation’s grantmaking and incubation of several national projects, including the Jewish Education Innovation Challenge. Previously, Todd was president and lead consultant for Do More Mission, a firm that increases nonprofit impact through philanthropic advisory services to high net worth individuals and foundations as well as providing outsourced management services to small and mid-sized charitable organizations. He was the first executive director and for many years the primary fundraiser for the Koby Mandell Foundation, where he continues to serve on the board of directors. Read more
 

Amanda Mizrahi


Managing Director

Amanda Mizrahi

Amanda Mizrahi brings a varied skill set to the Mayberg Foundation, including an expertise in program oversight, nonprofit organizational development, database management, and statistical analysis. Her more than ten years of nonprofit experience allowed her the opportunity to hone her skills with many aspects of nonprofit management, an asset she seeks to share with the programs she manages on behalf of the Mayberg Foundation. Amanda has an enthusiasm for the nonprofit sector and earned a Master of Business Administration.

Rina Schiff


Director, Marketing and Communications

Rina Schiff

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Rachel Mohl Abrahams


Senior Advisor for Education Grants and Programs

Rachel Mohl Abrahams

Rachel Mohl Abrahams serves as the senior advisor for education grants and programs. She brings to her work as a grantmaker and change agent more than two decades of experience in Jewish educational project design, program management and evaluation. Previously Rachel served as a senior program officer at The AVI CHAI Foundation where she specialized in Jewish education grantmaking and day school initiatives. With a particular affinity for and expertise in personalized learning, Rachel has been a champion for integrating these methodologies into Jewish education spaces. Rachel holds an M.A. in Bible from Bernard Revel Graduate School and a J.D. from the Cardozo School of Law, and she began her career as an attorney specializing in family law. She lives with her family in New York.

Tyler Grasee


Associate Manager for Grantmaking

Tyler Grasee

Tyler Grasee comes to the Mayberg Foundation after several years working in the cultural sector. His experience in membership marketing, development operations, curatorial research and museum education have afforded him the opportunity to connect people of all backgrounds through ideas and shared priorities. Tyler holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Lawrence University. Inspired by the power of Jewish history through his work in Jewish museums in both Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Berlin, Germany, he earned an M.A. in Museum Studies through the George Washington University. Tyler, who is an active member of the Washington, D.C. Jewish community, spends his spare time reading and playing the piano.
 
 

Marni Darby


Executive Assistant

Marni Darby

Engaged within the Jewish community most of her life, Marni comes to us from the Bender JCC of Greater Washington where she worked in various administrative positions over the past ten years. It was there where Marni was able to use her strong interpersonal skills to develop close relationships across the Jewish world and Israel. This expansion helped set Marni on her own Jewish journey enabling her to closely identify with the mission of the Mayberg Foundation. Marni has 3 grown sons who are working hard to make their mark in the world.

Shelley Kramm


Trustee Engagement Officer

Shelley Kramm

Shelley Kramm has been a long-time resident of Montgomery County and is known to many here and throughout the country as the pioneer behind Hadley’s Park, the first fully inclusive playground in Maryland and one of the first in the country. With a vast background in the nonprofit world and Business Development Shelley joins the Mayberg Foundation as Trustee Engagement Officer. Shelley has been featured on the TODAY Show and People Magazine as well as many other publications. She is most proud of being named Washingtonian of the Year by Washingtonian Magazine in 2005 and receiving Hadassah’s Myrtle Wreath Award. When she isn’t working she enjoys Zumba. And when she’s not dancing, you can find her puttering around her garden or sharing much-loved time with her daughters Sarah and Hadley and son-in-law Bryan and little grandson Milo.
 

Jewish Education Innovation Challenge Staff

 

Sharon Freundel


Managing Director

Sharon Freundel

Sharon Freundel, managing director of the Jewish Education Innovation Challenge, attended Jewish Day Schools followed by studying at Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University and earning a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Maryland. She completed graduate courses at Teacher’s College of Columbia University and earned a Master of Arts in Jewish Education at the Baltimore Hebrew University. Following several years of working in the nursing field, Ms. Freundel became engaged in the teaching of Torah. She taught and was the department chair for TaNaKH (Bible) and Torah SheBa’al Peh (Rabbinics) and was the Mashgicha Ruchanit (Spiritual Guidance Counselor) of the Upper School at the Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy. Most recently, she was the Director of Jewish Life at the Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation’s Capital. She teaches adult Jewish education classes throughout the Greater Washington, DC, area on topics such as TaNaKH, Jewish philosophy and contemporary halakhic issues in multiple venues and has lectured in Canada, Australia, Israel, and throughout the United States.

Rabbi Shmuel Feld


Founding Director

Rabbi Shmuel Feld

Rabbi Shmuel Feld proudly serves as the founding director of the Jewish Education Innovation Challenge. He was a principal and classroom educator in several Jewish Day Schools before joining JEIC in 2012. Rabbi Feld’s vision of education was shaped by his personal Torah study and day school learning. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of Chicago and a Master of Science in Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education. Additionally, he completed graduate-level coursework at the Lynch School of Education of Boston College. Rabbi Feld holds one of three ordinations granted by Rabbi Gedalia Dov Schwartz. His favorite job is husband and father of three sons in Silver Spring.
 

MyZuzah Staff

Alex Shapero


Program Director

Alex Shapero

Alex Shapero, MyZuzah Program Director, cultivates relationships with both distribution and funding partners–in North America, Israel and across the globe– to ensure kosher, fair trade mezuzahs get to the front doors of Jewish homes that need them. He brings to MyZuzah more than six years of talent and management consulting expertise, building on his previous partnership work at Hillel International and the Israel on Campus Coalition. Alex holds a Masters in Public Administration and a Masters in Hebrew & Judaic Studies from New York University. Originally from Bangor, Maine, Alex and his family reside in Washington, D.C.

Julie Lobb


Project Associate

Julie Lobb

Julie Lobb, MyZuzah Project Associate, leads data management and logistics for the MyZuzah team. Prior to joining MyZuzah, she served as a human resources business partner for over 12 years, specializing in developing and driving plans to optimize talent, structure, process, and culture in organizations. Julie graduated from the University of Virginia.

Aggie Grossman


Program Associate

Aggie Grossman

As the MyZuzah Program Associate, Aggie works with the MyZuzah team to further the goal of providing a kosher, fair-trade mezuzahs to any Jewish home that needs one. She is focused on nurturing MyZuzah’s relationships with partners, developing new program ideas, and helping the whole team’s operations run smoothly. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Jewish Studies as well as a Master of Public Health.

STAMP Staff

Rabbi Avraham Yechezkel Lessin


Program Director

Rabbi Avraham Yechezkel Lessin

Rabbi Avraham Yechezkel Lessin is the Program Director of STAMP (The STa"M Project), where he supervises the certification process of each sofer (scribe) and magiah (checker of the sofer's work) as well as every individual religious article written by them (Mezuzos, Tefillin, Torah Scrolls, etc.). In addition, Rabbi Lessin manages the project's educational and public awareness efforts for Jews in the diaspora in an effort to grow the public's understanding and appreciation of this holy work. After growing up in a family that founded and contributed to tens of Jewish charitable organizations, Rabbi Lessin went on to become a certified Sofer STa”M (acronym for Sefer Torah, Tefillin, Mezuzot, etc.) and a Magiah. As the first organization of its kind, STAMP is the timely synthesis of the two. Rabbi Lessin lives in Jerusalem, Israel with his wife and children.