The Hadassah Foundation is pleased to welcome two new board members: Lisa Haynor of Atlanta, Georgia, and Buffie Longmire-Avital of Greensboro, North Carolina; as well as our two inaugural Fellowship Directors: Shanie Reichman of New York City and Elizabeth Slotnick of Mountainside, New Jersey.
The new board fellowship program gives training and hands-on Board experience to accomplished women who are early in their careers or may have limited experience with non-profit Board service. The Hadassah Foundation added the Board Fellowship program to diversify the board, continue development of a leadership pipeline for the future, and help ensure that the legacy of the Foundation continues and remains relevant for generations.
Lisa Haynor was a practicing CPA for over 40 years, working primarily with professional service businesses. She assisted with business planning, merger considerations, and projections, as well as the standard accounting and tax services. In her retirement, she continues to serve on the finance committee and board of The Alfred and Adele Davis Academy. She is a board member, chair of the finance committee and treasurer of Jewish Home Life, and was recently asked to be on the finance committee of Momentum. She is past chair of the Jewish Women’s Fund of Atlanta, past treasurer of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, and has served in numerous other board positions over the last 50 years.
Dr. Buffie Longmire-Avital is a higher education administrator, professor of psychology, and advocate for inclusive excellence and well-being. As associate dean of academics in the honors college at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, she leads curriculum design and assessment, advances advising infrastructure, and co-constructs pathways that blend coursework with high-impact experiential learning. Buffie’s scholarship centers the psychosocial factors shaping the experiences of underrepresented groups—particularly Black American, Jews of Color, and LGBTQ+– communities. Her professional training includes Harvard’s Women in Leadership: Rising Leaders and the Black and Jewish Leadership Initiative, complementing her PhD in applied psychology from New York University and BS in psychology (cum laude) from Lafayette College.
Shanie Reichman is the director of strategic initiatives and director of IPF Atid at Israel Policy Forum, based in New York City, where she works to elevate the discourse around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She serves as the founding chair for the Forum Dvorah U.S. committee. A Hadassah Foundation grant recipient, Forum Dvorah is an NGO that champions women’s participation in national security and foreign policy decision-making spheres in Israel. Shanie is a Schusterman ROIer and serves on the boards of Queens College Hillel and the Center for Ethnic, Racial and Religious Understanding. Her work has been published in the Forward, the Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel, Hey Alma, Jewish Unpacked, and International Policy Digest. A contributing author of the book “Young Zionist Voices,” Shanie is pursuing her MA in Middle Eastern Studies at CUNY Graduate Center.
Elizabeth Slotnick is the senior regional manager of Oracle Data Platform in the Midwest; before being promoted to this role in 2022, she served in various capacities at Oracle, beginning in 2016 as a public sector sales development representative. She is the founder and former president of JWI Young Women’s Impact Network in Seattle and now serves on JWI’s Board of Trustees. Additionally, she is a recent Seattle Federation Courageous Leadership Fellow. Elizabeth earned a BA from the University of Virginia, where she majored in government and sociology. Originally from Richmond, Virginia, Elizabeth lived in Seattle from 2020-2025 and now lives in Mountainside, New Jersey.
See a list of the Foundation’s 22 board members and 80 alumnae here.