Brandeis Alumni, Family and Friends

Meet Our Leadership Team

Favorite Brandeis Professor: Just one? If not my favorite professors, Karen Klein (English), Andreas Tauber (Philosophy), and Leon Jick (Near Eastern and Judaic Studies) certainly had the most lasting and profound impact upon me as a student and beyond. From Prof. Klein (UHUM – Blood Cultures) and Prof. Tauber (Social & Political Philosophy), I learned to think and write critically and analytically, and from Rabbi Jick (Emergence of the American Jewish Pattern; Destruction of European Jewry), I learned about who I am, where, where I come, and the collective historical experience that shaped American Jewry.

Favorite Place on Campus: Massell Quad. It is where it all began, really.

Favorite Brandeis Memory: I could not possibly identify just one Brandeis memory as a "favorite". But meeting my now wife, Beth Jacobowitz Zive, would have to be at the very top of what is otherwise a very long list.

I volunteer because my years at Brandeis were some of the most important and influential years of my life. Much of who I am today is a function of my days as a student at Brandeis. I met my wife as a freshman at Brandeis. Some of my most cherished friendships were formed during my first days at Brandeis. I volunteer because I want to ensure that the generations that follow me will have access to a Brandeis experience that might be as transformative for them as mine was for me.