Stephanie Fink, MAJCS, RJE (she/her) serves as Associate Director, Network Expansion Experiences Content & Implementation at the URJ. She is a key member of the team designing activities to connect a diverse community of young people and their grown-ups with the Reform movement, its camps and Israel programs, and its social justice work. Stephanie also writes and curates content of interest to parents at ReformJudaism.org.
Stephanie grew up in Cleveland, attended Indiana University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, earned her MA at Brandeis as a Wexner Graduate Fellow, and served as a congregational educator for ten years before joining the URJ. A proud alumna of NFTY-Northeast Lakes and former board member of the Association of Reform Jewish Educators, Stephanie and her family reside in Minneapolis, MN.
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