Pat Blumenthal- Executive Director

Oversees the campus directors, oversee the development director, works with the Board of Directors, oversees PR and fundraising for all campuses on the state wide level, provides logistical and organizational advice for all Colorado Hillels, networks in the Colorado community to promote Hillel.

Melanie Zeitler- DU Campus Director

Oversees campus programming, works with the student leadership team, helps student leaders develop their programming, public speaking, and interpersonal relationship skills, oversees and coaches the campus JCSC Fellow, works with the campus administration, and coordinates with other campus directors.

Hedy Berman- CSU Campus Director

Oversees campus programming, works with the student leadership team, helps student leaders develop their programming, public speaking, and interpersonal relationship skills, works with the campus administration, coordinates with other campus directors.

Devorah Friedman- CU Campus Director

Oversees campus programming, works with the student leadership team, helps student leaders develop their programming, public speaking, and interpersonal relationship skills, oversees and coaches the campus JCSC Fellows, works with the campus administration, and coordinates with other campus directors.

Nicole Drusinsky- Development Director

Plan and implement fundraising plan, coordinate and direct fundraising events, tailor fundraising events for each campus, network in the Colorado community to promote Hillel.

Matt Vogel- Senior JCSC Fellow at CU

Engage Jewish college students, help students explore and celebrate their Jewishness, create and implement cutting-edge programs that appeal to students and impact their communities, work with various target populations of students, be "the Jewish Face" on campus.

Sarah Strnad- JCSC Fellow at DU

Engage Jewish college students, help students explore and celebrate their Jewishness, create and implement cutting-edge programs that appeal to students and impact their communities, work with various target populations of students, be "the Jewish Face" on campus.

Karen Richards- State Wide Administrator

Provide administrative support for all three campuses, manage data base, manage the pay roll, and issue reimbursement checks to staff.

My Responsibilities as a JCSC Fellow and Staff Member

My responsibilities as a JCSC and Hillels of Colorado staff member include: Staffing all DU Shabbat dinners, staffing all DU Jewish holiday events and celebrations, attending all Hillels of Colorado staff meetings, tabling for DU events for both empowered and engagement students, developing creative social, cultural, religious, and tzedek programs for engagement students, building meaningful relationships with students, encouraging students to connect to their own personal Judaism, performing basic office functions like answering the phone and taking messages, attending JCSC conferences and trainings, being on my JCSC Team conference calls, doing at least one hour of Jewish learning a week, providing advice and guidance to students, staffing some events at CSU including Shabbat and Holocaust Awareness, doing engagement activities and programs once a week at CSU, helping the Development Director recruit students for fundraising efforts, staffing some fundraising efforts.

This is a very unique Hillel staff structure because the three Hillels in the state of Colorado are comprised technically of one staff.  The Structure is hierarchical with the Executive Director is at the top.  Pat works out of the DU Hillel house the majority of the time.  The three campus directors, development director, and the administrative assistant are all directly below the executive director.  The JCSC Fellows are under their respective camps directors.  All staff members communicate with each other as needed, but the Fellows report to and coordinate with their campus director and the campus directors and development director report to and coordinate with the executive director.

Engagement and Empowerment

The division of engagement and empowerment is fairly easy to distinguish on this campus.  Empowered students come to leadership team meetings, plan events, and stop by the house to just hang out.  The engagement students are everyone else, people who come to one or two events, who stop by and say hi at tabling, or who I've contacted out of the blue simply because I know that they are Jewish.  Mel's job is to work with the empowered students to create programs and help them develop leadership skills.  My job is to build meaningful one-on-one relationships with all students, especially those not actively involved with Hillel, do unique and fun programming in some way related to Judaism for engagement students, to be a resource and sometimes support system for students.  In less technical terms, I take students who are not actively involved in Hillel out to coffee or lunch and get to know them.  Once I've built a relationship with a student then I help them connect to the Hillel or any other Jewish interest that they have.  Engagement is fun!  I get to meet a lot of cool college students and get to know them.  Watching them connect to their Judaism is a unique privilege.