Sarajevo library
Rebecca Bardach has worked with international migration, conflict management, and community development for more than twenty years. She managed refugee assistance programs in Hungary, Bosnia and Israel from 1994-2002 and then helped found and manage JDC’s Center for International Migration and Integration from 2002-12. She led resource development and strategy at Hand in Hand’s network of integrated schools and communities, which grew from three schools to six during her eight years there (2012-20).
Rebecca is a Schusterman Senior Fellow, and has an MPA in Public Policy and International Development from NYU, and a BA in English Literature from Columbia University. She contributes periodically to the Times of Israel and other media and is currently working on a book on Jewish-Arab shared society in Israel. She and her family live in Jerusalem.