About Us

Beth Cousens

BA Creative Writing and American Literature, University of Michigan
MA Jewish Studies, Baltimore Hebrew University
MSW University of Maryland
PhD Sociology of Jewish Education, Brandeis University
Pardes Institute, Jerusalem

Beth has worked in Jewish educational organizations for almost twenty years, designing community initiatives to increase involvement in Jewish life. After serving as the Associate Vice President for Jewish Experience at Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, she left Washington DC for the Bay Area and private consulting. She currently works with a variety of national and local Jewish organizations as a strategy and evaluation consultant, and leads workshops on the Jewishness of adults in their twenties and thirties and on Jewish service-learning.

Beth lives with her husband Joel and their Corgi, Kona, in San Francisco.