Elluminate Names Ten Jewish Women Nonprofit CEOs to its Collective Leadership Program
New York – July 9, 2025 – Elluminate has announced the ten visionary Jewish women nonprofit leaders from the United States and Israel selected to be in the seventh cohort of The Collective, the organization’s signature leadership program.
Elluminate empowers Jewish women philanthropists and leaders to advance equity and social change in the US, Israel and beyond. Its Collective leadership advancement program supports Jewish women nonprofit leaders and their organizations by providing training and funding, supporting collaboration, and sharing best practices to accelerate social change through a gender lens.
Each year, ten Jewish women nonprofit leaders are selected to be part of this catalyst for social innovation. This newest cohort brings to 70 the number of women leaders who are in or have participated in The Collective.
The women in the seventh cohort are leading organizations that are devising solutions and advancing change across a spectrum of pressing and emerging challenges in the U.S. and Israel: ensuring food equity and justice, improving healthcare for women and girls, preventing sexual violence against women and ending human trafficking and prostitution, creating inclusive spaces, and working for gender equity, among others.
“We are thrilled to support these amazing visionary leaders working on extraordinarily critical issues at this time when feminist leaders face great challenges on the frontlines of social change,” said Melanie Roth Gorelick, Elluminate CEO. “We seek to elevate these women, amplify their voices and issues, and help them deepen their impact.”
“It is notable that this is our first Collective cohort in which a majority of the nonprofit leaders are from Israel, reflecting Elluminate’s growth, and its commitment to the women who are holding up and enhancing Israeli civil society during wartime and into the future.”
The cohort participants were selected during a months-long competitive process undertaken by Elluminate’s Visionary Circle and Board. The criteria included candidates’ feminist leadership, connection to Jewish values, and work in four areas: ending poverty; creating an equitable and inclusive Jewish community; promoting women’s equality and leadership; and advocating for gender justice, reproductive rights and women’s safety.
“It is my privilege to welcome an incredible group of women leaders into the Elluminate Collective,” said Linda Yarden, Elluminate President. “It is clear that the challenges upon which they are focused are central to Elluminate’s mission and together we can advance social justice and equity in our world.”
As highlighted in The Collective 5-Year Impact Report published last month, The Collective experience provides participants the opportunity to strengthen leadership skills and implement organizational-level change; carry out meaningful and intentional social change; establish deep and powerful connections to the cohort and benefit from networking opportunities; and, acquire new learning about how to lead with a Jewish lens, a gender lens, and moral courage.
Members of the Seventh Cohort of Elluminate’s Collective
Maryam Chishti, Co-Executive Director, The LUNAR Collective, Richmond, CA
Maryam is the Co-Executive Director of The LUNAR Collective, a national organization that cultivates connection, belonging and visibility for Asian American Jews through intersectional programming, performance, digital storytelling and other media.
Leah Kabran Eden, Executive Director and Co-Founder, Equity Advocates, New York, NY
Leah is the co-founder and Executive Director of Equity Advocates, an organization dedicated to tackling the root causes of food inequity in New York through policy change and grassroots power building.
Tali Ehrenthal, Executive Director, ASSAF – Aid Organization for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Israel, Tel Aviv- Jaffa, Israel
Tali is the Executive Director of ASSAF, a human rights organization advancing the dignity, rights, and wellbeing of refugees and asylum seekers in Israel.
Dyonna Ginsburg, CEO, OLAM, Jerusalem, Israel
Dyonna is the CEO of OLAM, an international organization that empowers and equips Jewish individuals and organizations committed to global service, international development and humanitarian aid.
Tal Hochman, Executive Director, Israel Women’s Network, Tel Aviv, Israel
Tal is the Executive Director of the Israel Women’s Network, committed to creating social, economic and legal conditions for women to prosper across all sectors of Israeli society.
Ronie Nof Malc, Executive Director, Women and Their Bodies, Tel Aviv, Israel
Ronie is the Executive Director of Women and Their Bodies, an Israeli nonprofit working to improve the health of women and girls and to elevate their interests in a healthcare system in which there is a gender gap in care, research, and outcomes.
Lani Santo, CEO, Footsteps, New York, NY
Lani is the CEO of Footsteps, a national organization that provides comprehensive individual support to people who have chosen to leave the insular communities of ultra-Orthodox Judaism, and educate the greater Jewish and broader public about the experiences of this population.
Daniella Seltzer, Co-Founder and Co-Director, JLM Food Rescuers, Jerusalem, Israel
Daniella is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of JLM Food Rescuers, which works to build a more just, sustainable, and less wasteful urban food system in Jerusalem and other municipalities across Israel.
Moria Rodal Silfen, CEO, ATZUM – Task Force on Human Trafficking and Prostitution, Tel Aviv, Israel
Moria is the CEO of the ATZUM – Task Force on Human Trafficking and Prostitution in Israel, advocating for women’s rights, gender equality, prevention of sexual violence against women, and the eradication of human trafficking and prostitution in Israel.
Dr. Ramona Tenorio, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Tiyuv, Brookfield, WI
Ramona co-founded and now leads Tiyuv (“improvement” in Hebrew), a national Jewish nonprofit supporting organizations in uncovering and addressing biases and practices that create barriers to equity and inclusive environments.