Dr. Tali Zelkowicz
Dr. Tali Zelkowicz is the director of curriculum and research at The Wexner Foundation where she works across Wexner’s lay and professional and Israeli programs to help deepen and expand the teaching and learning of leadership. An educator, rabbi, and sociologist of education, Dr. Zelkowicz has taught graduate courses at HUC-JIR Los Angeles, and before coming to TWF, served as head of school at Columbus Jewish Day School. She is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship, was the founding director of the MCSJE Senior Fellows Program, in which she also participated as an inaugural senior fellow, and serves on the advisory board of the Collaborative for Applied Studies in Jewish Education (CASJE), and on the board of Jewish Family Services of Columbus. A core lens of her leadership, teaching, and writing, Dr. Zelkowicz strives to help Jewish communal leaders and their communities face and embrace the critical role of productive tension in Jewish learning.