Alon Shalev
Executive Director

Alon Shalev has been the SF Hillel Executive Director for five years. Before this, he was a founder member of Kibbutz Lotan and lived there for 20 years with his wife, Ariela. His sons Pele (11) and Asif (7) were both born there. When not working at Hillel, Alon loves to write and explore San Francisco. He is the author of two novels about social injustices and his favorite part of working at Hillel is taking groups to help rebuild New Orleans and working with these incredible students to volunteer in the SF community. 

Heather Erez
Assistant Director

Heather Erez started working at SF Hillel in 2004 after living on Kibbutz Tzora in Israel for six years where she worked with school aged children.  As an alum of Chico State she holds the first Modern Jewish and Israeli studies minor in the CSU system.   She attended Camp Swig and was very active in NFTY in high school.  She and her husband have two adorable children who love to visit Hillel to practice foosball and get spoiled by students.

programs@sfhillel.org
Office: (415) 333-4922 ext. 14

Dona Standel
Program & Engagement Coordinator

Dona Standel grew up in the San Fernando Valley in a secular environment where being Jewish and Israeli was easy. Moving to San Francisco, she became involved with Hillel and soon after was hired as a Koret Intern and found she was passionate about creating new engaging programs. She also founded the only Jewish-based sorority, Lambda Chi Mu, at San Francisco State University to provide another outlet for Jewish female students to celebrate and connect with each other. Now with a BA in Communication Studies, she continues to work with San Francisco Hillel as the Undergraduate Program and Engagement Coordinator and loves it!

dona@sfhillel.org
Office: (415) 333-4922 ext. 15

Shushannah Akin
Administrative & Development Assistant

Shushannah graduated from San Francisco State University in 2009 and is excited to work for an organization that helped her shape her Jewish identity as a student. While in school she was an active member of Hillel and the Israel Coalition. In 2006 she became an Abraham's Vision Fellow, and traveled to the Balkans where she studied cross conflict analysis between the Balkan Wars and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict while participating in dialogue with Palestinians. Shushannah lives in San Francisco with her partner, Aaron. She spends her free time attending cooking competitions and riding buses in San Francisco as she finishes her odd quest to ride every MUNI line in the city and blog about it.

admin@sfhillel.org
Office: (415) 333-4922 ext. 10