The Academic Engagement Network (AEN) and its newer offshoot Faculty Against Antisemitism Movement (FAAM) is overseen by well-connected advisory boards. They include former university presidents like Mark Yudof and Larry Summers, heads of university departments, liberal and right-wing academics, U.S. political advisors, think tank executives, and board members of academic-adjacent organizations like the Chronicle of Higher Education, Modern Language Association (MLA), and FIRE. Board members also include Israeli academics, Trustees of Israeli universities, board members and leaders from allied Zionist institutions, Israeli State employees, and former IDF members.
The power map below shows U.S.-based zionist organizations, non-zionist organizations, Israeli state entities, and universities/colleges that share board members and/or senior leaders with the Academic Engagement Network and/or Faculty Against Antisemitism Movement.
Individual Profiles (more coming soon)
AEN Leadership
- Mark G. Yudof (Co-Founder and Advisory Board Chair)
- Miriam Elman (Executive Director, 2019-Present)
- Kenneth Waltzer (Co-Founder and Former Executive Director, 2015-2019)
- Joshua Suchoff (Managing Director)
- Raeefa Shams (Director of Communications and Programming)
- Stephanie G. Wapner (Director of Administrator Engagement)
- Yisroel Benporat (Senior Associate for Faculty Engagement in NY)
- Sarah Livingston (Director of Member Engagement)
- Naomi Greenspan (Former Director of Improving the Campus Climate Initiative)
AEN Advisory Board
- Susan Herbst (AEN Advisory Board Vice Chair, University of Connecticut)
- Larry Diamond (Stanford University)
- Donna Robinson Divine (Smith College)
- Jesse M. Fried (Harvard University)
- Rachel F. Moran (Texas A&M)
- Steven Davidoff Solomon (University of California, Berkeley)
- Jennifer Raab (Hunter College)
- Ronald Liebowitz (Brandeis University)
AEN Founding Advisory Board Members
- Gabriella Blum (Harvard University)
- Jeffrey R. Brown (University of Illinois)
- Irwin Cotler (McGill University, Tel Aviv University)
- David Ellenson (Brandeis University)
- William E. Kirwan (University of Maryland)
- Roger D. Kornberg (Stanford University)
- Geri D. Palast (Israel Action Network)
- Steven Pinker (Harvard University)
- Daniel B. Rodriguez (Northwestern University)
- Ricardo Romo (University of Texas at San Antonio)
- Donna Shalala (University of Miami, The New School)
- Teresa Sullivan (University of Virginia)
- Lawrence H. Summers (Harvard University)
- H. Patrick Swygert (Howard University)
- Stephen Joel Trachtenberg (George Washington University)
FAAM Steering Committee
- Monique Balbuena (University of Oregon)
- Ellen S. Cannon (Northeastern Illinois University)
- Jeffrey Blutinger (California State University, Long Beach)
- Amy Elman (Kalamazoo College)
- Ron Hassner (University of California, Berkeley)
- Andrew Pessin (Connecticut College)
- Michael Saenger (Southwestern University)
- Stephen E. Sussman (Barry University)
- Elina Veytsman (University of California, Los Angeles)
Notable AEN/FAAM Contributers
- Cary Nelson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)