Lecturer in Nonprofit Management, MA Program at Hebrew University
STaR ’96
Raviv Schwartz was born and raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and made Aliyah in 1982. He settled on Kibbutz Harel where he lived till 1986 and during which time he completed his service in the IDF. He arrived in Michigan with his family in 1993 and graduated Project STaR in 1996.
After returning to Israel, he completed his doctoral degree in Community Social Work at Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva, where he was a recipient of the prestigious Kreitman Fellowship. For a number of years, Raviv conducted both applied and academic research on issues related to Arab-Jewish Relations in Israel, Israel-Diaspora Relations and the nexus between Philanthropy and social change. For the past 18 years, he has taught international students in the MA Program in Nonprofit Management and Leadership at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has also been teaching English for the past 16 years in a high school for youth at risk located in the town of Or Yehuda.