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board of The Well.
In 2015, Sam pitched her fitness con-
cept on Spike TV’s Sweat Inc., hosted by
Jillian Michaels. Sam and Karen plan
to bring Fuse45 to hometowns across
America and beyond. Sam received her
B.B.A. from the University of Michigan’s
Ross School of Business in 2010. She
resides in Birmingham with her hus-
band, Jeffrey, who is also an integral part
of Fuse45. They are expecting their first
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goals, such as the American Cancer
Society, Children’s Hospital of Michigan
Foundation, Detroit Police Athletic
League and Gleaners Community Food
Bank.
Amanda’s numerous philanthropic
passions include leadership roles
for organizations such as Child Safe,
Starfish Family Services, Jewish News
Foundation and Council of Michigan
Foundation. Amanda is a vice-
chair and trustee of the Max M. and
Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation, where
she also serves on committees for
Impact Investing and Early Childhood
Development.
Most recently, Amanda became a
board member of City Year Detroit,
where she focuses on supporting
students at Gompers Elementary
in Brightmoor as well as the entire
Detroit Public School system.
Amanda’s growing social justice inter-
ests, as well as her growing success
professionally, continue to be fueled by
her mission of helping Detroit families
succeed now and for many years to
come.

LINDSEY FOX-
WAGNER
Lindsey Fox-
Wagner, 35, com-
munications direc-
tor for Temple Beth
El in Bloomfield
Township, is no
stranger to Jewish
communal work,
with over a decade of service to the
Metro Detroit Jewish community.
Lindsey earned her bachelor of fine
arts from Eastern Michigan University
in graphic design. She began her career
working for the JCC as the assistant
games director for the 2008 Maccabi

Games. Following the
games, she stayed on to
help open the Beverly Prentis
Wagner Teen Center and worked at the
JCC Center Day Camps for two years.
After the JCC, Lindsey continued her
not-for-profit Jewish agency work at
JARC as the director of development.
During her seven years of service at
JARC, she worked toward annual fun-
draising goals of more than $3 million,
executed all major events, managed
public relations, marketing, volunteers
and coordinated Judaic programming.
Her portfolio includes marketing and
communications, IT, and strategic
development. Lindsey lives in West
Bloomfield with her husband, Jordan,
her adorable and energetic 3-year-old
son, Nathan, and their dog, Charlie.

SAMANTHA
FRIEDMAN
Samantha
Friedman’s career in
the fitness industry
started while work-
ing at American
Express in New York
City as a marketing
analyst for premium
card partnerships. Before and after her
corporate job hours, she taught spinning
classes at the American Express corpo-
rate gym for the company’s executives
and upper management.
In 2014, Sam, now 29, moved to her
home state of Michigan to build her own
fitness business with her mom, Karen
Kelman. Together, they created Cycle &
Row, now known as Fuse45. The com-
pany has locations in West Bloomfield
and Royal Oak.
Fuse45 is a 45-minute sustainable
circuit-based workout that is high inten-
sity with no impact. The foundation of
Fuse45 is built around rowing machines,
ski-ergs, fan-wheel based stationary
bikes, as well as innovative strength
training exercises targeting the core,
arms and legs for a truly sustainable full
body workout.
Fuse45 partners with Jewish
Vocational Services (JVS) to provide
affordable exercise classes for children,
teens and young adults living with devel-
opmental challenges. Sam is also on the

ELEANOR
GAMALSKI
As the community
organizer for Detroit
Jews for Justice,
Eleanor Gamalski,
24, works to build a
progressive voice in
the Metro Detroit
Jewish community
and a Jewish voice in the progressive
community.
Through her work with DJJ, she has
organized an active base of more than
100 people to make significant contribu-
tions to campaigns for worker rights,
education justice and regional transit.
Of all the issues facing our region,
Eleanor is most passionate about the
need for clean and affordable water. She
is an active leader in the People’s Water
Board Coalition, which works to educate
on water justice and mobilize for policy
solutions.
Eleanor is a proud alum of the Roeper
School, where she feels she gained a
firm foundation in social justice values.
Eleanor graduated summa cum laude
from the University of Michigan in 2014,
where she majored in international stud-
ies and minored in urban studies. She
participated in and later joined the staff
of U-M’s Semester in Detroit, an immer-
sive urban studies program grounded in
the history of Detroit activism and grass-
roots struggles today.
She received a master of public affairs
from Brown University in 2016 with a
focus on urban policy. Her particular
area of interest was community benefits
agreements, inspired by movements for
equitable development in Detroit. Born
in Bloomfield Hills, Eleanor is now a resi-
dent of Hamtramck. She is a member of
Congregation T’chiyah in Oak Park.

ASHLEY
GOLDBERG
Ashley Goldberg, 33,
is the founder and
owner of Born Yoga
in Birmingham, a
yoga studio dedi-
cated solely to chil-
dren, from babies
to teens, and fami-
lies. The classes focus on the develop-
ment of emotional, social and physical
elements of the yoga practice and work
to promote an overall feeling of strength
and beauty, both inside and out.

She is originally from Farmington
Hills, where at a young age she devel-
oped a passion for staying active, espe-
cially when in nature. Whether she was
exploring the world on her bike, danc-
ing or practicing karate, Ashley found
solace in the endless beauty of nature
and animals, which she strives to incor-
porate into all her yoga classes. Ashley
experienced her first yoga class in West
Bloomfield in 2008 and has been prac-
ticing regularly ever since.
In 2010, she began teaching pre-
school at Temple Shir Shalom, where
she immediately shared her love for
yoga with the children. Ashley’s natural
enthusiasm toward children of all ages
in combination with her passion for
yoga led her to open Born Yoga.
Ashley has an innate ability to form
special connections with children and
teens. Her silly, yet compassionate
personality has provided her with the
honor of creating a special bond with all
her students. Her yoga classes are filled
with fun yoga adventures, creative art
projects, exciting music, fundamental
social skills and mindfulness practices.
Ashley has a 200-hour RYT yoga
teacher certification. She is a certified
postnatal and baby yoga instructor as
well as a certified children’s yoga teach-
er through Karma Kids Yoga. Moreover,
she has completed a 25-hour prenatal
training with SambaYoga. Ashley also
received a certificate in Aerial Yoga &
Mindfulness at Yogapeutics in Austin,
Texas. In addition, Ashley has a master’s
in clinical and humanistic psychology
with a focus on child development.

MERRICK
GOODMAN
Merrick Goodman,
34, has been an
active member in
the Jewish com-
munity since he
was 9 years old.
Merrick had his
bar mitzvah in
1995 and was involved as a member
of Camp Tamarack and the JCC dur-
ing his youth, where he became privy
to Judaism and all that it entails. He
then went on a Team Mission to Israel
to learn about his heritage, which
evolved into speaking and writing flu-
ent Hebrew.
Merrick has been an entrepreneur
since he was 18. As a high school
graduate from Northville in 2001,
Merrick has been building his business
ever since. He opened Detroit’s Styln
Street Customs in 2003 with the focus
of window tinting, remote car starters,
car alarms, and auto and truck acces-
sories. Merrick also branched into
snow removal with his business Styln
Outdoor Services in 2010.
Merrick’s most recent accolade
includes working for Snap Chat Detroit
doing the window tinting.
Merrick is involved in many com-

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