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| | UJC - YL Western Regional Conference: Confirmed Speakers: Abby Michelson Porth |
 | | Abby Michelson Porth is Associate Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin, Sonoma, Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. |
 | | Porth directs JCRC's coalition building programs with other ethnic communities, manages the organization's fundraising efforts, the community's security planning project, and directs or supervises other operations of the organization such as strategic planning and the Tikkun Olam Projects of JCRC, including its literacy, environmental, leadership, and intergroup initiatives. |
 | | Porth received her Master of Management degree from the Heller School at Brandeis University, and her B.A. in African and Afro-American Studies and in Sociology from Brandeis University, where she received awards from the Student Senate and Faculty for her intergroup and interfaith coalition building activity. |
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