Elle Aviv is a digital strategist and non-profit director. From 2020-2023 she worked with Kehilla as Director of Communications & Membership. She is a 2022 ALEPH Kesher fellow. A graduate of Mills College, she studied ancient history at UCLA. She is cofounder of a 501(c)3 non-profit literary organization in San Francisco. She is a part-time digital and program strategist for New Lehrhaus.

Jim Mavrikios finds nothing incongruous about being a Greek-American Jewish Arabist—and program manager of New Lehrhaus. In 2001 he founded Pacific Arabic, a language school in downtown San Francisco. He served as executive director there until 2020, while also teaching Standard and Moroccan Arabic.