Ran Goel, Board Chair
Ran is the CEO of Mama Earth, Ontario’s largest independent online grocer. Ran has spoken on food issues before hundreds of audiences. He proudly leads a team of over 125 staff as they collectively create a better life through food. Previously, Ran practiced investment law in New York City for several years.
Jonathan Moneta
Jonathan cares about financial sustainability and literacy for artists. He is the founder and creative director at MakeLab Studio, a marketing and communications agency for the smart home and advanced manufacturing industries. Jonathan has taught the b’nai mitzvah class at Beth Sholom in Toronto, and currently teaches The Business of Art, an undergraduate entrepreneurship strategy course at Toronto Metropolitan University. Jonathan studied Theatre and Business at York University, and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Jackie Brown
Jackie is a rese
archer, journalist, and aspiring playwright with degrees in law and urban planning. Her work on the political economy of care work and long-term care homes during the COVID-19 crisis led her to testify before a provincial commission on long-term care and a federal parliamentary committee on housing as a human right. Most recently, she served as a researcher and consultant for the Office of the Federal Housing Advocate at the Canadian Human Rights Commission. Jackie also cares deeply about her Jewish roots, her relationship to food, and community-based governance and environmental stewardship.
Patricia Feeheley
Patricia is a mission-driven fundraiser with over a decade of experience helping nonprofits achieve their funding goals. She has extensive expertise in major gift fundraising, annual giving, corporate partnerships, foundation grant writing and impact reporting. Patricia brings a strategic and pa
ssionate voice to the table, with a deep understanding of the complexities of fundraising in a com
petitive landscape. She is committed to equity-informed practices, adopting a holistic and community-centric approach that prioritizes inclusivity and sustainable impact
Jessica Greenberg
Jessica is an actor and independent theatre producer of Ashkenazi Jewish descent with a passion for promoting youth empowerment and building community through the arts. She is the Director of Youth & Community Engagement for Studio 180 Theatre (Indecent, Oslo, Our Class, Stuff Happens, The Arab-Israeli Cookbook, The Laramie Project) where she runs Beyond the Stage activities and the Studio 180 IN CLASS workshop program, engaging 2,000 students across the GTA each year. Jessica worked as Education Coordinator for ARCfest: Toronto’s Human Rights Arts Festival, faculty at Centennial College’s Theatre Performance program, an NTS Ontario Drama Festival adjudicator and workshop leader, and the Director of Child Engagement for The Child-ish Collective. As an actor she has performed on stages across Canada and the US (Indecent, Towards Youth, Shakespeare in High Park, The Middle Place, Hana’s Suitcase) and on TV in The Handmaid’s Tale, Murdoch Mysteries and Being Erica. Jessica is a graduate of McGill University, New York’s Circle in the Square Theatre School and the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Most recently she produced the sold-out early years theatre production of TWINKLE by The Goodtimes. Her favourite role is that of Mama to teenaged daughters Mia and Lulu.
Past Board Members
Seymour Epstein
Rabbi Ilyse Glickman
Zeke Kaplan
Len Kofman
Rabbi Aaron Levy
Andrea Most
Sam Mizrahi
Danny Richmond
Ellen Rosenbluth
Carolyn Lefebvre Ruby
Michael Schecter (Chair)
Shai Spetgang (Chair)
Mark Weinstock
Jessica Gilbert
Jillian Rodak
Shari Golberg
Jonathan Richardson
Adam Beder
Leemor Valin
Shimona Petroff
Lauren Cappell
Alexandra Kuperman
Ariel Freiman
Karen Chisvin