Elisha Gechter

Elisha Gechter is the Senior Program Manager for Fellowships Curriculum at Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership. She designs leadership learning experiences for over 100 fellows, oversees the Wexner Israel Fellowship, and the Wexner Senior Leadership Program. Elisha has been working in the Boston Jewish Community for 15 years – previously connecting people searching for community and for Jewish wisdom as the Associate Director of Adult Learning and Community Engagement at Hebrew College and fundraising with local young leaders at the Jewish Federation, CJP. She has a BA in Psychology from Yeshiva University’s Stern College in New York and an MA/MBA from Brandeis’ Heller Hornstein Program in Jewish Leadership and Non-Profit Management. She served as the immediate past president on the board of Mayyim Hayyim Mikvah and Education Center, is active in Encounter’s Boston Regional Circle, and is an educator for adults through Hebrew College's Open Circle Jewish Learning. Originally from Riverdale, NY she lives in Somerville, MA with her husband and two kids where they attend several local minyanim.