The Hadassah Foundation is delighted to welcome three accomplished women as new board members: Caren Goldberg of Bayside, Wisconsin; Amy Rosenblatt Lui of Minnetonka, Minnesota, and Anastasia Torres-Gil of Santa Cruz, California.
Caren Goldberg (top left in above photo) has served as chief development officer of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation, executive director of the federation’s Jewish Community Foundation. Her career at the foundation began in 1996 as an endowment associate; she also served as its associate executive director and then its director of planned giving & endowments. Before entering the Jewish communal sector, Caren worked as an attorney, including a two-year clerkship in the Court of Appeals of the State of Wisconsin District II. Caren is a board member of the Milwaukee Jewish Day School and has served on a variety of other boards. A life member of Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America, Caren lived in Israel for two years in the late 1970s and has made numerous trips since then.
Amy Rosenblatt Lui (top right in above photo) is principal of ARL & Associates, a Minneapolis-based philanthropic advisory firm and has more than 30 years of experience in nonprofits, philanthropy, and the Jewish community. Amy has been the executive director and trustee of several family foundations providing innovative leadership, developing foundation infrastructures, constructing grantmaking portfolios and evaluation plans, building legacy blueprints, conducting sector and organizational analysis, providing grantee coaching, and creating new grantee partnerships and programs. Amy spent more than 15 years working in the Jewish community in California, holding various positions at the American Jewish University, the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund and the Jewish Home in San Francisco.
Anastasia Torres-Gil (bottom right in above photo) has worked as assistant district attorney in Santa Cruz (2002-2005); senior staff attorney at California Rural Legal Assistance (2005-2008), and deputy district attorney in Santa Clara County, where she was sent to Israel to investigate a conspiracy to commit murder case and led the office’s first Hate Crimes Unit (1989-1994). She has also worked in numerous nonprofit roles, including as a foster parent recruiter for the County of Santa Cruz (2008-2019) and regional director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Central Pacific Region (1994-1996). In 2024, she completed translating (from Hebrew to English) and editing the autobiography of Captain Uri Bar-Lev, the only Israeli pilot to ever foil an in-air hijacking attempt. The manuscript will be available in English by the end of 2025 (see www.UriBarLev.com for more info). A former National Board Member of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, Anastasia was in its first cohort of leadership fellows and is currently a board member of the Central Pacific Region. She has also served on numerous other boards and was a Wexner Heritage Fellow.
Board members of the Hadassah Foundation serve up to three two-year terms, and when they step down many remain active as board alumnae. See a list of the Foundation’s 20 board members and 78 alumnae here.