Sarah Cort

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Regional Director, Midwest

Sarah (she/her) is thrilled to join the team as the Midwest Regional Program Director. Prior to Repair The World, her passion for experiential education and relationship building led to a career as an overnight camp professional. She was the Summer Camps Director at McGaw YMCA Camp Echo for seven years. One highlight of Sarah’s tenure at Camp Echo is her work with families and staff to facilitate and implement the first all-gender cabins. While she spent her summers at camp, she led Taglit-Birthright Israel trips most winters, and was in the first cohort of Birthright Fellows. Prior to her role at Camp Echo, Sarah served as the Director of Education at KAM Isaiah Israel in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, where she ran the Religious and Nursery School programs. To better meet the needs of that community, she created Shoresh, a Shabbat-based experiential program, where children would attend Religious School on Friday afternoons, ending with family Shabbat services. Sarah has a degree in Early Childhood Education from Indiana University and volunteered for a year in Israel as an OTZMA Fellow, part of the Masa Israel Journey. Sarah is also on the board for Camp For All Kids, which facilitates racial diversity at overnight summer camps in the Midwest. Sarah is a St. Louis native and proud Cardinal’s baseball fan. She has been living in Chicago since 2012.

Lucie Shiffman

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Program Manager, Cleveland

Born and raised in the Cleveland Jewish community, Lucie Shiffman (she/her) is excited to get back to work serving her hometown as the Program Manager for the Service Corps in Cleveland, Ohio. Lucie has spent the last four years serving different communities both at home and abroad. She spent a lot of the last year working as a Disaster Relief Specialist for the Small Business Administration helping small businesses across the US bounce back from the Covid19 Pandemic. As a Peace Corps Volunteer in Rwanda, Lucie spent her time mobilizing teachers and students around community-based projects. Now, with a focus back home Lucie has been organizing with Showing Up for Racial Justice in Northeast Ohio, helping onboard new members into the important work and actions going on in our community. She is excited to bring these experiences to Repair the World and work alongside other young Jewish service-minded people to build partnerships and a sense of community within Cleveland.

Lexi Silvers

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Midwest Development Director

Lexi Silvers (she/her) is a fundraising professional who is thrilled to serve as Repair the World’s Midwest Development Director. A graduate of Loyola University Chicago where she received her Master’s in Public Policy, Lexi’s background in political fundraising and campaigns sparked her passion for development through the art of storytelling. Prior to joining Repair, Lexi worked for Keshet as Manager of Individual Giving and for then-United States Senator Joe Donnelly as State Fundraising Director. Lexi lives in Chicago and in her spare time can be found listening to public radio, drinking more coffee than is medically recommended, organizing blood drives, and spending time with friends and family.

Ngozi Williams

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Program Associate, Cleveland

A Cleveland devotee, Ngozi Williams (she/her) is passionate about culture shifting and meaningful service in the Jewish community. Co-founder to Jews of Color: Cleveland, a project of Mitsui Collective, she prays with her feet by uplifting marginalized populations through hyper-local cultural programming and cultivating safe spaces for connection. A member of the inaugural Alumni Advisory Board of the Anti Defamation League’s Glass Leadership Institute, Ngozi centralizes inclusion and connection in everything she does. A perpetual student, she received dual bachelor’s degrees in Civil Engineering and General Physics, and is currently pursuing training as a mikveh attendant through Mayyim Hayyim’s Rising Tide program.

Also a shameless over-scheduler, Ngozi can usually be found drinking boba by the lake and catching up on a week’s worth of daf yomi between meetings. She is honored and excited at the opportunity to bring these experiences to Repair the World Cleveland as a Program Associate.