Sue Simmons has been working in the nonprofit sector for over 25 years, as a professional and volunteer. Sue was the Director of the Advancement Group at the Center for Creative Leadership and is currently a Managing Director of S&G Consulting, working in the nonprofit sector. In March of 2015, Sue presented on nonprofit leadership at the International Jewish Funders Network conference in Tel Aviv. In her volunteer capacity, she served as board chairs of Family Service of the Piedmont Greensboro Foundation, Jewish Family Services of Greensboro, and B’nai Shalom Day School. Sue is immediate Past President of the Greensboro Jewish Federation, a past campaign chair, and currently serves as the Chair of the Jewish Community Relations Committee at the Federation. Sue holds a Bachelor of Arts in Speech and Communications from the University of Cincinnati and lives in Greensboro, NC with her husband Gary. Sue enjoys travel, reading, engaging in philanthropy and community service using her voice and time to work toward a more equal and just society.

Sue Simmons has been working in the nonprofit sector for over 25 years, as a professional and volunteer. Sue was the Director of the Advancement Group at the Center for Creative Leadership and is currently a Managing Director of S&G Consulting, working in the nonprofit sector. In March of 2015, Sue presented on nonprofit leadership at the International Jewish Funders Network conference in Tel Aviv. In her volunteer capacity, she served as board chairs of Family Service of the Piedmont Greensboro Foundation, Jewish Family Services of Greensboro, and B’nai Shalom Day School. Sue is immediate Past President of the Greensboro Jewish Federation, a past campaign chair, and currently serves as the Chair of the Jewish Community Relations Committee at the Federation. Sue holds a Bachelor of Arts in Speech and Communications from the University of Cincinnati and lives in Greensboro, NC with her husband Gary. Sue enjoys travel, reading, engaging in philanthropy and community service using her voice and time to work toward a more equal and just society.

Elizabeth Alberti, MA is a seasoned philanthropy professional with broad experience in government affairs, communications, advocacy and Jewish education. With a dynamic career in institutional advancement spanning over 20 years, she has led institutional advancement and external affairs management for the country’s most prestigious Jewish communal and higher education institutions such as, New York Federation (UJA), The Simon Wiesenthal Center, American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), and Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. Elizabeth has recently moved from her role as the Senior Director of Institutional Advancement at Touro College to work full time at her firm TRIConsultants a full-service advancement, external affairs, and community engagement firm. Liz is fluent in Dutch and Hebrew and loves to spend her free time visiting her four children who live in Manhattan, Vermont, and Colorado.

Elizabeth Alberti, MA is a seasoned philanthropy professional with broad experience in government affairs, communications, advocacy and Jewish education. With a dynamic career in institutional advancement spanning over 20 years, she has led institutional advancement and external affairs management for the country’s most prestigious Jewish communal and higher education institutions such as, New York Federation (UJA), The Simon Wiesenthal Center, American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), and Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. Elizabeth has recently moved from her role as the Senior Director of Institutional Advancement at Touro College to work full time at her firm TRIConsultants a full-service advancement, external affairs, and community engagement firm. Liz is fluent in Dutch and Hebrew and loves to spend her free time visiting her four children who live in Manhattan, Vermont, and Colorado.

Watch the story of Shelly’s story and her escape from Nazi Germany in this Centropa video.

Watch the story of Shelly’s story and her escape from Nazi Germany in this Centropa video.

Marilyn is the Executive Director of the Greensboro Jewish Federation and has directed the highly respected and engaged organization since 1988. She credits the success of the “small and mighty” Federation to the outstanding partnership between volunteer and professional leadership. She led the community through annual and special campaigns resulting in over $50 million in total donations to the local Jewish community annual campaign, Jews in Israel and in global Jewish communities. She holds an MSW from the Wurzweiler School of Social Work of Yeshiva University and was a Mandel/Council of Jewish Federations Executive Development Program Fellow. Marilyn is married to Robert. Together, they are proud parents of three daughters, Dori, Hallie and Shira; two sons-in-law, Scott Fox and Daniel Sternberg, and one grandchild, Adi Tsamah.

Irene has been working for the good of the Greensboro community since 1962 when she moved to Greensboro.  Over the next 50 years she and her husband Irv have been involved in every major organization of the Jewish community, from becoming founding members of B’nai Shalom Day School, to working with Shelly Weiner and others to resettle Russian Jews from the former Soviet Union, to holding countless positions of leadership for the Greensboro Jewish Federation.  Irene and Irv are the proud parents of sons Larry and Scott and daughter-in-laws Deirdre and Liz, and incredibly proud grandparents of Jake and Dylan.  

Originally from New York, Victoria Carlin Milstein has lived and traveled around the world and
now resides in Greensboro, NC. Victoria studied at The School of Visual Arts in New York City
and The Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem. Her portraits hang in private and public
collections globally. Victoria’s practice includes socially engaged public art and programming
along with sculpture and painting. In 2021 she was featured in “Pieces of Now”, the award-
winning exhibit at the Greensboro History Museum documenting her community’s response to
the social justice protests in 2020.

Her sculpture, “She Wouldn’t Take off Her Boots,” was erected in Greensboro’s LeBauer Park in
April of 2023. Victoria is the co- founder of Women of the Shoah, the non-profit associated with
the project and will sponsor art and educational programs as part of the North Carolina
Holocaust curriculum for public schools. She is the Executive Producer of “She Wouldn’t Take
Off Her Boots,” a documentary on the project that will be aired nationally in the fall of 2023.
Victoria currently serves on numerous community boards and organizations, including the
North Carolina Council on the Holocaust, the North Carolina Folk Festival, and the Visitors
Board of University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She also serves as a Commissioner for
the Arts for the City of Greensboro. She is a recipient of the Anne Hummel YWCA Mission Award
for her work in establishing Victoria’s House, an art center for children experiencing
homelessness.

Victoria was a 2018 TedX Greensboro Speaker and operates VCM Art Studio, a place of
mentorsing and fellowship, with model drawings, workshops and community events for all
demographics.

Originally from New York, Victoria Carlin Milstein has lived and traveled around the world, having studied at The School of Visual Arts in New York City and The Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem. She now resides in Greensboro, N.C., with portraits hanging in private and public collections globally. 

Victoria’s practice includes socially engaged public art and programming along with sculpture and painting. In 2021 she was featured in “Pieces of Now”, the award-winning exhibit at the Greensboro History Museum documenting her community’s response to the social justice protests in 2020. 

Her sculpture, “She Wouldn’t Take off Her Boots,” was erected in Greensboro’s LeBauer Park in April of 2023.  Victoria is the co-founder of Women of the Shoah, the non-profit associated with the project, and will sponsor art and educational programs as part of the North Carolina Holocaust curriculum for public schools. She is also the Executive Producer of “She Wouldn’t Take Off Her Boots,” a documentary on the project that will be aired nationally in the fall of 2023.

Victoria currently serves on numerous community boards and organizations, including the North Carolina Council on the Holocaust, the North Carolina Folk Festival, and the Visitors Board of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.  She also serves as a Commissioner for the Arts for the City of Greensboro. She is a recipient of the Anne Hummel YWCA Mission Award for her work in establishing Victoria’s House, an art center for children experiencing homelessness.

Victoria was a 2018 TedX Greensboro Speaker and operates VCM Art Studio, a place of mentoring and fellowship, with model drawings, workshops and community events for all demographics. Visit: TEDXGreensboro