Community Blog New Trustees Bring Organizational Experience to Hebrew College Board
While Hebrew College has been a fixture in the Jewish community of Greater Boston since our founding in 1921, we continually renew ourselves as we strive to respond to the challenges of the contemporary Jewish community with depth, creativity, and compassion. As a pluralistic educational institution committed to reimagining Jewish learning and leadership for an interconnected world, we celebrate and honor our legacy while working toward a vibrant Jewish future. This is the balancing act that guides the college, and it takes the diverse efforts of leaders at every level to move forward with purpose and gratitude for the past. We are thrilled to announce that, this summer, Hebrew College welcomed two outstanding new leaders to our Board of Trustees to contribute to this work.
Each of our new Trustees will leverage their abilities as organizational change agents. Meredith Moss is known for her strategic vision, operational expertise, and ability to drive business transformations.
Michelle Black (above, right) currently serves as the Board Chair Emeritus of Gann Academy and is a Trustee of Jewish Family & Children’s Services. She is a co-founder of TribeTalk.org, an organization that aims to prepare high school students for Jewish life on their future college campus, including education on how to navigate and respond to antisemitism on campus. Additionally, Michelle serves on the Commission for Strategic Priorities (CSP) and co-chairs the Teen Engagement task force within Boston’s Combined Jewish Philanthropies.
Meredith Moss (above, left) is passionate about creating equitable opportunities and fostering collaborative work environments. She brings professional experience from the fintech and financial services sectors to her role on the Board of Trustees. She is an Operating Partner at Presidio Investors and Board Chair at Alliant National. Meredith served as the CEO and Co-Founder of Finomial, a fintech software platform. Under her leadership, Finomial was acquired by SEI, where she later became Managing Director. Before her tenure at Finomial and SEI, Meredith held senior roles at Credit Suisse, Lehman Brothers and Reuters, where she led business units and technology and strategy initiatives. Meredith volunteered with the Refugee and Immigration Assistance Center through a partnership with Beth El Temple Center, and with the Coro Leadership Center in New York.
Each of our new Trustees will leverage their abilities as organizational change agents. Meredith Moss is known for her strategic vision, operational expertise, and ability to drive business transformations. Michelle Black worked as an organization and change management consultant with a focus on non-profit management, leadership development, corporate strategy, and organizational design before applying her business experience to the Jewish community as a strategic advisor, fundraiser, and community builder. This experience in visioning and managing organizational evolution will doubtless come into play as Hebrew College embarks on a new strategic planning process.
“One of the great privileges of my role is working in close partnership with our Trustees to fulfill our educational mission as a college. I am deeply inspired by their commitment and honored by their trust,” says President Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld. “Through the changes and challenges of the last several years, their vision, talent, and devotion have strengthened and sustained us. We are delighted to welcome Meredith and Michelle as we begin this next chapter together.”
Michelle and Meredith join new Trustees Rabbi Avi Killip HCRS `14, Rabbi Steven Lewis HCRS `11, Suzanne Priebatsch, and Laure Garnick, who were installed in June 2023, and the rest of our dedicated and dynamic board. We are grateful for their effort and perspective, together with our newly refashioned Rabbinical School leadership team and all of Hebrew College’s professional and volunteer leaders, in stewarding the future of our community.