Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies

Susan Alvares Correa is an architect, entrepreneur and coach. She splits her time between  Weston, Massachusetts and the island of Curaçao where she is from. She has an undergraduate degree in Entrepreneurship from Wharton and a Master in Architecture degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Susan is a board member of Temple Beth Elohim in Wellesley, Massachusetts and serves on the steering committee of Mikvé Israel-Emanuel Curaçao’s 375th anniversary committee. In 2024, Susan founded the Jewish Caribbean Culture Preservation Foundation Inc. to help historic Caribbean Jewish communities create sustainable futures.

Nicole Duclos is a Partner in the International Arbitration Practice of Covington & Burling LLP in New York, where she also leads the firm’s Latin America Initiative and Jewish Affinity Group. Nicole is highly ranked by international and Latin America legal publications in international arbitration, and sits regularly as arbitrator. Nicole serves on the Board of the Santiago Arbitration and Mediation Center (CAM Santiago) and the North American Chilean Chamber of Commerce. She is President of the New York and Washington, D.C. Chapter of the Club Español e Iberoamericano de Arbitraje (CEIA), and is a Member of the Advisory Board of The American Review of International Arbitration at Columbia Law School. Nicole holds law degrees from Universidad de Valparaíso (Chile) and Harvard Law School.

Nancy Falchuk is currently a Hadassah International Team member. She is the immediate past Philanthropy Division local campus campaign chair. She was the 24th national president and formerly served as chair of Hadassah Magazine, the Hadassah Nursing Task Force and the Hadassah Gift Committee. Falchuk also founded the Montreal Hadassah Nurses Council, the first professional organization for Jewish nurses in Canada. She created the first Hadassah Nursing Institutes, as well as the Hadassah Nursing Educational Missions, the first three of which she led. She worked with the Hadassah nurses in Israel to develop international nursing symposia on trauma, acute care, and infection control that were held twice in Argentina and in Venezuela, Brazil, and Mexico.

Diego Gradowczyk was head of emerging markets trading at Barclays, later was named senior managing director and co-head of emerging markets at alternative investment manager Marathon Asset Management, served as Director of Tayron Capital, and is currently the Managing Director of Gray Cube Sports.

Dr. Sandra Lilienthal is a sought-after speaker at conferences, synagogues, and other Jewish
organizations and communal events. She is the author of several Jewish studies curricula including 10 courses for the Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning. She is part of the Melton faculty, as well as an adjunct professor and doctoral advisor at Gratz College, where she also sits on the Board and chairs the Academic Affairs Committee. Dr. Lilienthal has served as the Education Director of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz's Global Day of Jewish Learning and was the 2015 recipient of the prestigious Covenant Award for Excellence in Jewish Education. Earlier this year, she started Wisdom Without Walls: An Online Salon for Jewish Ideas.

Claudio Pincus is President of The Quantic Group, Pharmaceutical Consultants. The Quantic Group is a pharmaceutical, biotechnology, vaccines and medical device specialty consultant that supports both the industry and governments; services are provided in multiple areas including: regulatory, research, development, manufacturing, and quality operations. Pincus is also the Chair of the Board of the Seminario Rabinico Buenos Aires, and served as overseer at the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 2005 to 2010.

Claudia Politanski is a Brazilian lawyer by training, having attended University of São Paulo Law School for her bachelor degree and University of Virgina Law School for her LLM. She is also a former EVP of Itaú, Brazil’s largest bank. After retiring from her successful career of over three decades in 2021, she decided to pursue one of her lifelong passions of studying history. She is a graduate student of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis, a career choice intended to deepen her knowledge on Jewish history and foster her dream of becoming a historian.

Dalia Pollak is President of Museo Judio Chile (founded 2014) and Founder of RedLaes (Red Latinoamericana de educación en Shoa/Latin American Network for Holocaust Education, founded 2020). She is a clinical psychologist by training, dedicated to preserving memory and education through museum and academic networks.

Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig is an art historian, independent curator, and art critic. She received a Master’s in art history and a Ph.D. in Latin American history from the University of Miami. She is a founding and contributing editor of ArtNexus magazine and the Executive Director/Curator of the ArtNexus Space in North Miami, Florida. Since 1989, she has written about modern and contemporary art for specialized magazines, newspapers, artists' monographs, and exhibition catalogs. She is the author of the book Essays on 20^th Century Latin American Art (Routledge, 2022) and a contributing author of the book Jewish Latin American Artists: Perspectives on the Global South (Brill, 2025). From 2008 to 2015, she worked as an adjunct curator at The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida. As an independent curator, she has organized over one hundred exhibitions in the United States and Latin America. She currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Friends of the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy, and the Advisory Committee of the Fundación Paíz para la Educacion y la Cultura, Guatemala City, Guatemala. She belongs to several professional organizations, including the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), the College Art Association (CAA), the Association for Latin American Art (ALAA), and Art Table.

Ken Shulman is a veteran print and broadcast journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, The New Yorker, National Public Radio, the BBC, and PBS. Ken spent 15 years in Italy covering European soccer, culture, and politics. He is the author of non-fiction books on art conservation and astronomy, and believes himself to be the only American who speaks the Logodourese dialect of the Sardinian language. He is a two-time RTDNA Edward R Murrow winner for excellence in broadcasting, and was named a Champion of Justice by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Ken currently hosts Away Games, a television travel show and learning platform about sport, politics, and human rights. He is a graduate of Middlebury College and holds a master’s degree in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was a Freedman-Martin Media Fellow.