CAJM Staff
Melissa Martens Yaverbaum
Executive Director
Amy E. Waterman
Senior Manager of Communications
Mindy Humphrey
Administrative Assistant
CAJM Board of Directors
Laura Conrad Mandel, Chair
Executive Director
Jewish Arts Collaborative (Newton, MA)
Sol Davis, Vice-Chair
Executive Director
Jewish Museum of Maryland (Baltimore, MD)
Marsha Semmel, Treasurer
Independent Consultant
(Washington, DC)
Josh Perelman, Secretary
Chief Curator & Director of Exhibitions and Interpretation, Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History (Philadelphia, PA)
Colin Weil, Development Chair
Executive Director
Congregation B’nai Jeshurun (New York, NY)
Susan Bronson, Immediate Past Chair
Executive Director
Yiddish Book Center (Amherst, MA)
DIRECTORS-AT-LARGE
Fraidy Aber
Constance Ross Wolf Director of
Education and Civic Engagement
Contemporary Jewish Museum
(San Francisco, CA)
Alisha Babbstein
Archivist
Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
(Portland, OR)
Lauren Apter Bairnsfather
CEO
Anne Frank Center USA
(New York, NY)
Sheri Bernstein
Vice President & Museum Director
Skirball Cultural Center
(Los Angeles, CA)
Gemma Birnbaum
Executive Director
American Jewish Historical Society
(New York, NY)
Dahlia Fisher
Independent Consultant (Cleveland, OH)
Jordanna Gessler
Vice President Education & Exhibits, Holocaust Museum LA (Los Angeles, CA)
Gugulethu Moyo
Independent Consultant
(Tucson, AZ)
Abigail Rapoport
Curator of Judaica
The Jewish Museum
(New York, NY)
Rebekah Sobel
Policy Director for Museum Programs, National Archives &
Records Administration
(Washington, DC)
Hannah Weisman
Executive Director, The Magnes
Collection of Jewish Art & Life at
UC Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
CAJM Advisory Council
David Altshuler
President
David Altshuler Company Inc.
Lou Cove
Founder
CANVAS
Warren Hoffman
Executive Director
Association for Jewish Studies
Jenna Weissman Joselit
Professor of Judaic Studies & Professor of History
Washington University
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Ronald S. Lauder Chief Curator, Core Exhibition, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Sarah Pharaon
Senior Director, International Coalition of Sites of Conscience
Gail Reimer
Founder & Former Exec. Dir.
Jewish Women’s Archive
Laura Shiavo
Program Head, Museum Studies George Washington University
Arnee Winshall
President & CEO
Hebrew at the Center
Kinshasha Holman Conwill
Deputy Director, Smithsonian National
Museum of African American
History & Culture
Patrick Gallagher
President & Founder
Gallagher & Associates
Kevin Jennings
President
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Sean Kelley
Senior VP,
Director of Interpretation
Eastern State Penitentiary
Stacy Lieberman
Deputy Director
The Broad Museum
Richard Rabinowitz
President
American History Workshop
Lisa Sasaki
Director
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
Shari Rosenstein Werb
Director
Center for Learning, Literacy and Engagement Library of Congress