Karyn Grossman Gershon is the CEO of Project Kesher, a nonprofit building Jewish life and empowering women leaders in Ukraine, Israel and Belarus. During her tenure at Project Kesher, she has helped: raise more than $40 million for Jewish women and girls; launch interfaith coalitions in Ukraine; create the first women’s health programming on Ukrainian public radio; and lead a gendered response to the war in Ukraine. In Israel, Karyn has been at the forefront of supporting programming and advocacy for Ukrainian and Russian women immigrants and refugees and the Russian-speaking LGBTQ community.
