Becky Adelberg is the Reboot Chicago manager responsible for all programming, partnerships, and strategy pertaining to the Chicagoland area. Her experience involves conceptualizing and executing large community events, overseeing educational and social programming, volunteer management, leadership development, travel abroad and entrepreneurship programs. She is also the Founder of Community Connect Consulting, a mentor at 1871 Chicago, a voice over artist and a children's yoga teacher. She holds a BA in Communications from the University of Kansas, an MA in Jewish Studies & Education, with an emphasis on spirituality, from Siegal College of Jewish Studies and a Certificate in Jewish Leadership from Northwestern and Spertus Institute of Jewish Learning.

Maria Arsenieva is the controller at Reboot and is responsible for its finance and accounting. Prior to joining Reboot, Maria worked in affordable housing and information technology industries. She is a CPA and holds an MBA from Case Western Reserve University. Maria also earned MS in Economics and BS in Accounting from schools with very long names located in St. Petersburg, Russia, where she is originally from.

Melissa Buscemi is the program director for Reboot, providing organization-wide support in the areas of program, event production, communications, development and administration. Melissa holds a BA in humanities and fine arts from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Noam Dromi is the managing director of Reboot Studios. He is an Emmy® Award-winning veteran writer/producer, marketing executive and digital strategist, specializing in creative content, media production and brand development for entertainment companies, consumer brands and non-profits. He won the first Primetime Emmy® for VR in 2015 for his work as Producer of the Sleepy Hollow Virtual Reality Experience with the Fox Broadcasting Company. He was nominated again in 2018 for his work as Executive Producer of the AMC digital series The Walking Dead: Red Machete. He is an active member of the WGA, PGA, and Television Academy and serves as an adjunct screenwriting professor in the School of Film and Television at Loyola Marymount University.

Sara Gollom is the development manager for Reboot, responsible for researching potential donors, writing grant proposals, maintaining databases, and processing donations. She also has an extensive background in event planning and project development for Jewish nonprofits. Originally from the UK, Sara holds an LLB in law from the University of Liverpool.

Shane Hankins, chief operating officer, has rich experience in nonprofit management and fundraising. He most recently served as Executive Director of Grassroots.org, a nonprofit providing web development and business consulting services to over 2,300 other nonprofits around the globe. While there, Shane completely restructured internal operations while increasing membership, budget, and impact. He was also a member of the founding management team for the Economic and Community Development Institute, an organization dedicated to building wealth and employment opportunities for refugees, immigrants, and low-income individuals. This organization grew out of Jewish Family Services in Columbus, Ohio. In his career he has managed dozens of staff and programs, and has raised over $25 million. He is a Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude graduate of the Ohio State University, and also completed the Senior Leadership program for nonprofit executives at the Columbia Business School.

Francine Hermelin Levite is Reboot’s chief network officer, responsible for developing programs, products and events that help further the Reboot mission of promoting conversation, sparking debate and catalyzing community. Francine has spent a career creating collaborative projects. From her days running a graphic and experiential design studio to producing family political empowerment projects to launching the My Haggadah: Made It Myself DIY workbooks and workshops, Francine partners with users to think, play and create meaning together. She brings to Reboot an inherent appreciation for brand strategy and design thinking and the significant role both can play in connecting people with the essence of Jewish culture.

Madelyne Heyman is Reboot's L.A. program coordinator, responsible for organizing local Reboot events and partnering with existing organizations to engage them in Reboot's programming. She comes from a creative background, having produced many theatrical and storytelling events in Los Angeles. She ran a nonprofit theatre company in North Hollywood, where she produced a number of successful, award-winning shows. Madelyne is also a writer of original musicals, a performer, and an amateur circus artist (she joined a youth circus when she was 11 so don't ask for any demonstrations). She grew up in St. Paul Minnesota and does not miss the ice and snow.

Robert-David Jones is the Southeast Michigan program consultant serving as a resource for community members with questions about Reboot projects. In addition to identifying, cultivating, and managing relationships, his role includes implementing and creating both signature programs and partnership-driven collaborations with an emphasis on Reboot’s core programming portfolio. Robert-David helped to lead the Red Bull Arts Detroit residency program as project manager in 2015, and then again in 2018 as the public programs manager working collaboratively with Red Bull to design and execute public programs reaching diverse communities and engaging a wide range of ideas and forms of expression by identifying areas of need within the community - both local and global - to be served. In 2019 Robert-David was selected to represent Detroit as one of fifty fellows from seventeen countries at the Salzburg Global Seminar for Young Cultural Innovators. This intensive residential program at Schloss Leopoldskron, focuses on human capital, leadership development, and aims to build a more vibrant and resilient culture and arts sector equipped to advance positive social change agendas and equitable community transformation worldwide.

Josh Kanter is the director of partnerships and marketing at Reboot, responsible for amplifying the impact of Reboot’s projects through both collaboration and digital engagement. Josh brings a wealth of experience in the Jewish community having worked previously with UJA-Federation of New York, American Jewish World Service, the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, and Bend the Arc. Josh is a the immediate past co-chair of Advancing Jewish Professionals of New York City, a local group of the JPRO Network. Originally from Detroit, he holds an MSW in Jewish Communal Leadership from the University of Michigan School of Social Work and an advanced certificate in Jewish Philanthropy from the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University. Josh lives on the Upper West Side with his wife, Allie, and adorable daughter, Zoe.

David Katznelson is the CEO of Reboot. A Grammy nominated music producer, in his 30+ years in the music industry, he worked in high school for Bill Graham Presents, as a college radio DJ, as vice president of A&R at Warner Bros., and as the head of the independent label group, The Birdman Recording Group, Inc. Katznelson served as the chair of Reboot’s board of directors since 2012 and he is also one of the first members of the Reboot network, and has been an active member of the community from Reboot’s inception. He is a co-founder of two of Reboot’s most successful initiatives - The Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation and the Dawn Festival, a Shavuot celebration in San Francisco. 

Sara Linden is the development associate for Reboot, responsible for supporting the CEO and the development team. She has spent the past 10 years organizing in the Jewish community and was introduced to the magic of Reboot content during her time as the Holiday Program Manager at the San Francisco JCC. Being a devout mahj maven, for the past five years she has hosted mah jongg parties in honor of the National Day of Unplugging. Originally from Scottsdale, AZ, Sara holds a Bachelor of Science and Engineering from Tulane University. Sara lives in Long Beach with her husband, Seth, and they are raising two little mensches.

Kendell Pinkney is a Brooklyn based theatre-maker, Jewish-life consultant, and rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary. His collaborative works have been presented at venues such as 54 Below, Joe’s Pub, the 14th St. Y, and Two River Theatre, to name a few. Kendell’s broader interest in racial and ethnic diversity among Jews led him to team up with spoken-word artist, Vanessa Hidary, to produce Kaleidoscope, a monologue showcase that foregrounds the stories of Jews of Color, and Jews from Sephardic and Mizrachi backgrounds. In addition to his work with Reboot, he is the Rabbinic Fellow for the Jewish arts and culture organization LABA and Ammud: The Jews of Color Torah Academy.

Tanya Schevitz is the chief innovation and communications officer at Reboot and is responsible for external and internal messaging and for collecting, organizing and producing creative ideas and opportunities across the organization. Tanya has a unique blend of 15 years in newspaper reporting and writing and 10 years in communications and creative event production. She attended Summit in 2006 and joined the Reboot staff in 2010. She was Reboot’s national communications manager before leaving at the beginning of 2019 to become vice president of communications at Common Sense Media. She missed the creativity of her work at Reboot and returned to the staff in June. She holds a BA From UC Berkeley in communications and a masters from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

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