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Erica Hruby, M.A. is a Jewish educator with nearly 30-years of teaching, curriculum writing, and professional development experience in Jewish community, academic, and residential environments. Erica serves as Senior Manager, National Teen Education and Engagement at The Jewish Education Project. She is also the founder of Anchored Parenting, LLC where she serves as a parent educator and coach. Erica has an M.A. from Georgia School of Professional Psychology in Clinical Psychology with a focus on children and adolescents. She lives on the West Coast of Florida with her high school sweetheart with whom she shares two adult daughters.

Paige is Moving Traditions’ Director of the Meyer-Gottesman Kol Koleinu Teen Feminist Fellowship, a year-long program that gives teens across the country the skills to take part in Jewish, feminist social change-making and community building. Paige holds an MA degree in Jewish Communal Service from Baltimore Hebrew Institute at Towson University, a Certificate in Non-Profit Studies from Johns Hopkins University, and a BA in International Development and Social Change from Clark University. When Paige isn’t connecting teens to life-changing curriculum, she can be found hanging out with her wife and kids, baking challah for friends, and building community among her neighbors. 

Celeste Albert, LCSW, is the Coordinator of Teen Programs at Jewish Family & Children’s Service of Greater Mercer County, NJ a position she has held for the past 20 years. Two programs that she administers are Gesher LeKesher and the Jewish Community Youth Foundation (JCYF).  Gesher LeKesher is a Jewish peer leadership program that trains teens from all backgrounds of Judaism to lead group discussions on trending topics through a Jewish lens. In JCYF, teens from 8th-12th grade evaluate grant requests, interview agency staff, fund grant proposals from Jewish nonprofits and each grade have a unique philanthropic focus.  Celeste has presented on Youth Philanthropy and Social Action at national youth philanthropy conferences and served on the Honeycomb (formerly known as the Jewish Teen Funders Network) Advisory Committee.  Celeste has also created the JCYF Advisory Board and Alumni Connect, a program connecting current Teen Program Participants with Alumni Teen Program Participants and Business Professionals.

Celeste also organizes Good Deeds Day.  Each year teens participate in various service projects that benefit local social service agencies like Homefront, RISE, and the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen.

Outside of work, Celeste is an active member of the Sharon Elementary PTA in Robbinsville where she created “Sharon Shines” - a community service program for Preschool to 4th graders at Sharon Elementary School where participants interface with local nonprofits and participate in a project benefitting these organizations.  Celeste also created “Boomer’s Last Hurrah” – a 4th grade legacy program that teaches 4th graders about the legacy they leave behind and gives these students the opportunity to give back to others in their elementary school before they graduate.  Celeste also is currently the Chair of the Membership Committee at Beth El Synagogue.

Celeste received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Minors in Sociology and Women’s Studies at The College of New Jersey and Masters in Social Work at Rutgers University.  Celeste is also a Certified New Jersey Disaster Response Crisis Counselor and Certified Social Work Field Instructor.