JCLP Alumni

Jewish Communal Leadership Program Class of 2013

Jess Alper is the Vice President and Director of National Programs for Health Career Connection in Oakland, California. She previously worked for Kaiser Permanente in OB/GYN and health communications. While in JCLP, she pursued a dual-degree program and graduated with both a MSW and MPH degree. Prior to her time at U-M, Jess spent four years in San Francisco managing health care service programs for the Muscular Dystrophy Association and teaching teens about gender and identity issues in a pluralistic Jewish education program. She was honored with the Elaine Bachrach Teaching Excellence Award as well as the San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum's LINK fellowship.

Jewish Communal Leadership Program Class of 2013

Molly Dehrey-Buckman works as a program officer at The Glazer Foundation in Los Angeles, California. She has previously worked as the Assistant Director of Leadership Development for the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, therapist with Psychotherapy Associates of Chicago, and as a clinician/community-based social worker with Jewish Child and Family Services in Chicago, IL. As a JCLP student, she interned with Jewish Family Service of Metropolitan Detroit. Before attending U-M, she worked for the Jewish Agency's B'yachad program, Masa's Building Future Leadership Conference, the March of the Living's Los Angeles Delegation, and the Los Angeles Bureau of Jewish Education. Fluent in Hebrew, Molly also spent a year in Israel volunteering at the Israel Center for the Treatment of Psychotrauma in Jerusalem, which treats victims of trauma from all religious and ethnic backgrounds.

Jewish Communal Leadership Program Class of 2013

Rachel Freedman-Doan is an English teacher in Daegu, South Korea. She interned with Hazon in New York City and Congregation Beth Shalom in Oak Park, MI, during her time with JCLP. Prior to her studies with JCLP, Rachel was the Director of Interfaith Action at the Ginsberg Center at the University of Michigan. This work of facilitating campus conversations and service across divides of faith and ideology built upon Rachel's undergraduate experience as an interfaith dialogue coordinator.

Jewish Communal Leadership Program Class of 2013

Shayna Millman is a development associate at the Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix in Scottsdale, Arizona. Before moving out west, Shayna woked as the Development Manager at Michigan Hillel in Ann Arbor, MI, the Youth Director at Anshe Emet in Chicago, and the Youth Director at Beth Hillel Congregation Bnai Emunah in Wilmette, Illinois. As a JCLP student, Shayna interned with the Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor and Jewish Child and Family Services in Chicago. As an undergraduate at U-M, Shayna was an inaugural student in the School of Social Work's Community Action and Social Change minor, which she helped to shape as a member of the program's Student Advisory Board. She also worked at Coville Assisted Living Apartments in Oak Park as a Metro Detroit Jewish Occupational Intern Program, where she organized supplemental activities for residents.

Jewish Communal Leadership Program Class of 2012

Ilana Harrow works for the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) Office of Student Health and Wellness, as the Oral Health Coordinator. Before that, she worked with CPS in the Vision Program and also served as a program associate with the Ounce of Prevention Fund. She was a co-founder of the Chicago Moishe House, where she lived for two years, building an engaged community of young Jewish adults through vibrant public programs and service projects. While a student in the Jewish Communal Leadership Program, Ilana interned at the Jewish Council for Urban Affairs in Chicago and spearheaded "What Is Jewish Detroit?" JCLP's 2012 Communal Conversation. Ilana most recently has provided MSW supervision to JCLP students completing summer field placements in Chicago.