Susan Neiman, Executive Director, received her MA in Jewish Communal Service from Brandeis University. She has worked  professionally in the Jewish community for more than two decades, the majority of that time in a synagogue environment. In the late 1990s, Susan and her husband, Stuart, lived and worked for a year in the former Soviet Union, where she did community organizing. Now, Susan and her husband, who works in the Department of Homeland Security, live in Bethesda, MD. They are parents to two sons and a daughter, all of whom are grown and raising families  of their own.