Board of Directors

Board of Directors

  • Jeffrey B. Schlussel

  • Board Chair
    Carson Fischer, PLC

  • Mark Kowalsky

  • Board Vice-Chair
    Partner, Taft

  • Peter Alter

  • Past President, Jewish Federation of Detroit

  • Kari Alterman

  • Founder, Good Name Advisors

  • Carolyn Bellinson

  • Co-founder Brilliant Detroit and Community Volunteer

  • Dorothy Benyas

  • Board Secretary / Treasurer
    Chief Financial Officer,
    Jewish Federation of Detroit

  • Michael Berger

  • United Jewish Foundation President

  • Penny Blumenstein

  • Past Chair
    Community Volunteer

  • Erika London Bocknek, PhD, LMFT

  • Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, Wayne State University & Associate Editor, Infant Mental Health Journal

  • Jody Boorstein

  • Chief Financial Officer, The Mars Agency

  • Sharlonda Buckman-Davis

  • Assistant Superintendent, Family and Community Engagement, Detroit Public Schools Community District

  • Jeffrey M. Devries, MD, MPH

  • Retired pediatrician & VP for Graduate Medical Education, Beaumont Health

  • Andy Doctoroff

  • Andy Doctoroff

  • Senior Vice President, Program Management

  • Michael Eizelman

  • Past Chair
    Jackier Gould, PC

  • Jennifer Friedman, PhD

  • JENerate Consulting

  • Amy Good

  • Retired CEO, Alternatives For Girls

  • Nancy Grosfeld

  • Past Chair
    Community Volunteer

  • Jay Hack

  • Community Volunteer

  • Brian Hermelin

  • President,
    Jewish Federation of Detroit

  • Steven Ingber

  • Chief Executive Officer,
    Jewish Federation of Metro Detroit

  • Gilda Jacobs

  • Gilda Z. Jacobs

  • Community Volunteer

  • Candace J. Kimpson, MD

  • Board Certified Physician Emergency Medicine/ Hospice & Palliative Care

  • Justin F. Klamerus, MD, MMM

  • EVP/Chief Medical Officer, McLaren Health Care

  • Beverly Liss

  • Past President, Jewish Federation of Detroit

  • Ilana Liss

  • Managing Director, Schechter

  • Rabbi Harold S. Loss

  • Temple Israel

  • Michael Maddin

  • Past Chair
    President Emeritus, Maddin, Hauser, Roth & Heller, PC

  • Gary Torgow

  • Anne Mendelson

  • Community Volunteer

  • Susie Pappas

  • Community Volunteer

  • George M. Roberts

  • Managing Principal, Civic Companies

  • Marta Rosenthal

  • Community Volunteer

  • Steve Schanes

  • Community Volunteer

  • Mark Schlussel

  • Attorney and Founding Co-Chairman

  • Karen Sosnick Schoenberg

  • Past Chair
    REDICO, LLC Principal and Member of the Board

  • Rabbi Simcha Tolwin

  • Executive Director, Aish HaTorah Detroit

  • Leah Trosch

  • Community Volunteer

  • Lawrence A. Wolfe

  • ALW Strategies, LLC

  • Monica L. Woodson

  • CEO, Girl Scouts of Southeastern Michigan

  • Not Pictured:
    Gary Torgow

  • Immediate Past President, Jewish Federation of Detroit