Meet the Moment Staff

	Nadine Epstein Editor & Publisher Nadine Epstein is Editor and Publisher of Moment. Epstein has been a journalist for 25 years: Her articles, essays and op-ed pieces have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Smithsonian, The Christian Science Monitor, Ms., and other publications. She covered politics and news in the Chicago bureau of The New York Times and worked as an editor and reporter at The City News Bureau of Chicago. She has published three books, contributed to several anthology collections and co-written a documentary film, which was selected as a semifinalist of the 2001 Academy Awards. Epstein was a 1989-1990 Kellogg Fellow for Public Service in Journalism, part of the Michigan Journalism Fellows program, now known as the Knight-Wallace Fellowship. She has been the recipient of many grants, including the D.C. Commission on the Arts/National Endowment for the Arts and the Fund for Investigative Journalism. During the nineties, she taught journalism in the Master's Program in Journalism, Communications Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has a B.A. and M.A. in international affairs from University of Pennsylvania and was a University fellow in the political science doctoral program at Columbia University. She lives with her family in Washington, D.C.

	Sarai Brachman Shoup Associate Publisher Sarai Brachman Shoup has 14 years of staff and consulting experience with independent, community and family foundations and nonprofits in Europe and the United States. For the past five years she has served as the lead professional at the Mandell L. and Madeleine H. Berman Foundation (on a part-time basis), focusing on international, national and Detroit-centered giving. Prior to that, she was the program director at the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation and has worked on a consultant basis for the Covenant Foundation, Mandel Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan, Detroit East Riverfront Project, and World Bank, among others. She has published academic and policy papers in A Jewish Life After the USSR, The Review of Rabbinic Judaism and for City Connect Detroit and the Kellogg Foundation. Shoup holds masters’ degrees in Public Policy and Eastern European Studies from the University of Michigan and graduated from Harvard University magna cum laude, where she studied Russian History and Literature and was co-founder of Mosaic magazine.

	Marcy Epstein Associate Publisher Marcy Epstein has taught in literature and cultural studies for 20 years, engaging institutions of higher education in dialogues of inclusion and difference, community building, independent and critical thinking and religious freedom. Most recently an associate professor at Baker College in Flint, Michigan, she has produced four volumes of essays, fiction, poetry, and criticism, including Points of Contact and Deep; her many articles, liturgies, and international lectures range from Gertrude Stein to disability after the Intifada. Invested in the connections between public and private life, Epstein has produced literary, cultural, artistic and religious events for private foundations and non-profit agencies across the US and Canada. Winner of a Neubacher Prize and Mellon Fellowship, she holds an undergraduate degree in English and Political Science (political philosophy) from Bryn Mawr College, where she studied with Chaim Potok, a doctoral degree in English Language and Literature, as well as post-doctoral advanced research fellowship from the University of Michigan. An active clay artist in Ann Arbor, Epstein facilitates the arts enclave Judaica and leads Bereshit, an adult education program on “Jewish evolution.”

	Joan Alpert Senior Editor Joan Alpert has spent more than 30 years in the publishing world as an operations director, public relations manager, business developer and writer/editor. Working for profit and not-for-profit organizations, Alpert's career world has ranged from criminal justice to wine tasting and from war veterans to management consultants. She also taught high school English and French, was a Great Books leader, served as PTA and coop nursery school presidents and helped initiate a “reconformodox” congregation. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan. Joan lives in Bethesda with her physician spouse; they have three children and six grandchildren.

	Nonna Gorilovskaya Editor-at-Large Nonna joined the staff in 2006 from Mother Jones magazine, where she was an editorial fellow. She lives in Scotland, where she is a Ph.D. in politics student at the University of Edinburgh. Nonna is also a researcher for NiemanWatchdog.org, a project of Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism. Prior to her journalistic endeavors, she studied the role of nationalism in the breakup of the Soviet Union as a U.S. Fulbright scholar to Armenia. She is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley and St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford.

	Mandy Katz Senior Editor Mandy Katz has written from China, New York and Washington on everything from nomads to real estate, Korean War vets to payroll outsourcing. Her Moment byline has appeared over articles on Albert Einstein, rebranding Israel, the future of Jerusalem, violinist Joshua Bell, photographer Annie Leibovitz and anti-Semites with Jewish lovers, among others. A Mandarin speaker and former international trade consultant, Katz earned her bachelor’s degree from Yale, majoring in East Asian studies and graduating magna cum laude. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with her husband, three children and a ravenous turtle.

	Eileen Lavine Senior Editor Lavine received a B.A. at the University of Wisconsin and a M.S. at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. She has been a reporter, writer and editor in New Bedford, MA, New York City, Paris and Washington, DC. She takes classical piano lessons and serves as a volunteer researcher-writer with the William Steinway Diary Project at the National Museum of American History.

	Sarah Breger Associate Editor Sarah joined Moment in 2009 as the Rabbi Harold S. White fellow. Sarah has written about politics, culture and religion for The Wall Street Journal, Haaretz, The Forward and other publications. Sarah earned her undergraduate degree in Jewish history from the University of Pennsylvania and graduated from the Columbia School of Journalism where she focused on the intersection of gender and religion. In her spare time she blogs about Israeli television.

	Navid Marvi Production Editor/Graphic Designer Navid graduated from American University in 2009 with a BA in Graphic Design. During his last Semester, he joined Moment as a design intern. He has freelanced for several organizations in the DC area, including Men Can Stop Rape. In his freetime, he writes and plays music and takes sporadic trips to Baltimore.

	Roz Timberg Office Manager/Bookkeeper Roz Timberg grew up in Washington DC - a rare Washington DC "native"' - went to Oberlin College for 2 years and later graduated from City University of NY (Staten Island College) with a degree in psychology and special education. She has worked at day care centers and nursery schools, as bookkeeper for a French restaurant, and is treasurer and program chair of the Jewish Study Center which gives adult education classes in the metropolitan DC area. Roz is a long-time member of Fabrangen Havurah and enjoys swimming and Zumba dance/exercise classes..
	Sala Levin Communications Associate Sala Levin graduated in 2010 from the University of Maryland, where she majored in English, with a focus in creative writing, and minored in Philosophy. She was the winner of the 2010 Jimenez-Porter Literary Prize for prose at the University of Maryland. Born and raised in Rockville, Maryland, Sala spends her free time writing, reading and watching reruns of The Sopranos.