Meet Our Team
Rachel Dobbs Schwartz
Chief Innovation Officer
With 18 years of experience in teaching, building curricula, developing leaders, and non-profit business systems and structures, Rachel has done it all, from teaching in the classroom to directing overnight camps, to facilitating institutional change management. She thrives when helping others develop skills and passions, refining processes and procedures toward efficiency, managing staff and faculty, and problem-solving. Rachel is passionate about experiential education and community relationships, and is focused on providing organizations with attractive new options for delivering content, developing Jewish youth, and helping local Jewish organizations thrive.
Ana Robbins
Executive Director
At every level from the classroom to the boardroom, Ana creates experiential opportunities that build human connection. She lives by the ethos of experimentation, self-reflection, and continuous iteration, because she thrives in the areas of improvement and efficiency. Having founded and built four successful Jewish After School programs in Atlanta, GA, Ana has brought Jewish experiences and education to over one thousand students in the last 10 years. Ana is laser focused on scaling the Jewish after school model nationally while advancing programmatic quality, inspiring investors and organizations, supporting governance, and developing leadership and lay capacities.
The Story of the Jewish After School Accelerator
For the last 10 years Ana Robbins, founder of Jewish Kids Groups, has been collecting data, and refining the important processes, templates, and planning it takes to build successful and sustainable Jewish After School program. Upon seeing the impact and growth at her own 4 locations in Atlanta, GA, she teamed up with Rachel Dobbs Schwartz, Jewish educator and former Camp Director, to further develop a path for organizations to open their own Jewish After School programs. Ultimately their goal is to scale the impact that Jewish After School brings to families, children, organizations, and communities, ensuring a strong, educated, and engaged Jewish future.
We are making it easy and affordable for Jewish institutions to open highly effective Jewish after school programs
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