Karen grew up in Portland and has been deeply involved in the Jewish community. Currently, she serves on the board of the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland. Now retired, her career focused primarily on community outreach and engagement, fundraising, and grant administration in the nonprofit and public sectors. She and her spouse Dvora live in Southeast Portland and enjoy spending time with family and friends, gardening, and exploring the world on foot and by bike.

Mia was the founding Board Chair of Eastside Jewish Commons, and Interim Executive Director before transitioning to this role. She is a business consultant who has served as a coach, advisor, and mentor to many emerging companies. Her experience derives from 27 years leading the field of active transportation in various roles in research, advocacy, government, academia, and business. Mia co-founded and grew Alta Planning + Design to a 300-person consulting firm with 30 offices, serving as COO, CFO, President and CEO. She is a co-founder and former VP of Alta Bicycle Share, Inc., which launched 10 bike share systems in North America and Australia before being acquired. She led the creation of several academic and non-profit institutions and authored Joyride: Pedaling Toward a Healthier Planet. She is a community builder, investor, philanthropist, volunteer, independent corporate director, passionate tennis player, avid reader, hack gardener, and dedicated mom of three.

Sara Radcliffe is a semi-retired healthcare executive and nationally recognized expert on the impact of changes in regulatory, scientific, and reimbursement policy on the life sciences industry.

Sara and her husband author/musician/businessman JD Kleinke, are both deeply involved with Congregation Havurah Shalom.

Hannah is a native Eastside Portlander and resides with her family, including two little boys and husband Daniel Mandel in SE. She has worked in healthcare management for over a decade. Her eastside passion is strong; many of Hannah’s high school friends have “NEP” tattoos. For those that haven’t heard this, it means NE Portland- EJC’s new claim to fame. While growing up, Hannah was one of a handful of Jewish students at her public schools. In the past ten years however, Hannah has seen the Eastside Jewish population explode not only with transplants, but kids she grew up with at Neveh Shalom that would never cross the river. Hannah and Daniel found it hard to meet older millennials in synagogue sponsored activities and are hopeful to bring all generations together at the EJC to build up Eastside Jewish life and community.

Alysa Rose is a seasoned business and community leader with twenty-five years of marketing, branding, manufacturing, retail and executive experience in a variety of industries and environments. She has been deeply involved in building eastside community, and is a former Chair of Congregation Shir Tikvah’s steering committee. She and her husband David have two sons who attended Grant High School.

Tamar Wyte-Lake moved to Portland in 2009, and immediately fell in love with the Eastside. She has been active in building community on the Eastside ever since. Tamar spends her working hours in the research world, and her play hours as much as possible in nature. She has two children who attend PJA, a husband who shares her passion for the outdoors, and a dog named Stanley.

Hope Peskin-Shepherd grew up in metro-Detroit and moved to Portland by way of NYC in 2018; since then she has been in Northeast. Hope helped start and was on the founding boards of the Jewish Young Professionals of Ann Arbor (JYP), where she also met her husband, Andrew. She works on health policy and public health. Hope enjoys hiking, singing, cooking, SUPing, reading, beer, and spending time with friends and family. She is excited to build on east side Jewish communal efforts and create connections.

Andrew moved from Israel to Portland's Hollywood neighborhood with his spouse and 2 children in 2016. Novel writing orients his days. Edgy Jewish themes take primary interest. He served as founding Coordinator of Jewish Healing Programs in Berkeley for Chochmat HaLev. He's been keeping financial books for businesses the past 30 years to support his art and his family. He loves hiking, rain or shine, and baking and playing games with his family and friends.

Ellie Simon Goldman has called NE Portland home since 2017. She has proudly led programming with TischPDX, Moishe House, Tivnu: Building Justice, and Shir Tikvah's Nashira Project, and informally in the broader community. People also know her for her Shabbat potlucks, group singing events, and once-yearly rainbow challah. She is a Program Manager at Big Brothers Big Sisters Columbia Northwest, and she has been described by loved ones as an exclamation point.