MEET OUR TEAM
Hannah Sherman
Executive Director
hannah@pdxhillel.org
Hannah Sherman joined the PDX Hillel team as Executive Director July 2018. Prior to moving to Portland, she spent four years working at Santa Barbara Hillel, reinventing the student leadership board as well as supervising other staff members to expand Hillel's reach into the university community. Additionally, Hannah was a participant in Hillel International's Weinberg ACCELERATE Executive Training Program, a program for select Hillel employees that prepares them to become successful Hillel directors as well as the recipient of Hillel International’s Exemplar of Excellence Award in 2022.
Hannah grew up in the sunny suburbs of Los Angeles before spending four years as a Banana Slug at UC Santa Cruz. She then pursued her graduate studies at Brandies University's Hornstein Program, receiving a dual Master of Arts in Jewish Professional Leadership and Near Eastern and Judaic Studies.
Maddie Herrup
Springboard Social Justice Fellow
Maddie Herrup is originally from Pittsburgh, PA, and recently graduated from Brandeis University in Boston, MA where she studied Anthropology and Public Health. Prior to coming to PDX Hillel, she worked as a student intern at Diller Teen Fellows in Boston. For the last year, she has been at JFCS in Boston helping to oversee the TeenSafe program. TeenSafe teaches Boston area teens on issues of teen dating violence and domestic violence, and gives them the tools to bring their knowledge and resources into the larger community.
Another one of the focuses of her social justice work is mental health advocacy, and incorporating mindfulness and contemplative practices (such as meditation and prayer) into her work. Her intention is to bring this to every interaction she has in my work, and uplift others in their identities and in their Judaism.
Linoy Yechieli
Jewish Agency for Israel Fellow
Linoy Yechieli grew up in Kiryat Shmona, a small city in the north of Israel, where she is the eldest of four siblings. When she turned 15 her family moved to Kfar Saba, a bigger city near Tel Aviv where they currently live. As a little girl, she had many hobbies such as singing, writing, crafting, dancing, ice skating and traveling which are her fuel for joy in life up to this day forth.
Since she bought her first guitar, she has been writing songs and performing with her original music, (mostly Hebrew at this time but hoping to add some in English soon). In 2016 she graduated from the Open University with a B.A. in Psychology and Music. Following her passion for music, and the desire to help others, she attended Levinsky College of Education, graduating with a M.A in Music Therapy in 2018. For the past five years she has been working in the music and music therapy field with diverse populations in different ages, developing projects to encourage inclusion and social equality in Israel.
Linoy is very interested in Philosophy and actively explores her Jewish identity in all aspects from a very young age. She is coming to PDX Hillel to continue this Journey and she is looking for people from the Portland community who feel the same calling for jewish-identity-exploration and are willing to share their own unique stories along the way.