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OLIVIA GUTERSON
Olivia Guterson is
a Detroit-based
mother, creative
and community
organizer. She is
committed to
growing, building and sup-
porting the diverse entrepre-
neurs and artists in her com-
munity and beyond. As an art-
ist, she is deeply influenced by
the textures, landscapes and
patterns of her upbringing, as
well as her Jewish and African
heritage. She works predomi-
nately in black and white for
its stability, intensity and hon-
esty while incorporating
ancestral patterns and narra-
tives. In 2020, she curated her
first exhibition, The Space
Between, at the Ann Arbor
Art Center. She presently is a
resident at Sibyls Shrine and
AS220’s Practice//Practice. She
is a founding member of Art
Mamas Alliance. Her work has
been shown at the Arab
American National Museum,
Art Week Miami, JADA Art
Fair, Norwest Gallery, Detroit
Artist Market, Ann Arbor Art
Center and more.
KYLE ZWIREN
Kyle Zwiren, 36,
joined the Rashty
Group at Morgan
Stanley in 2020.
Kyle loves serving
their clients, learn-
ing how they accomplished
their success and helping them
achieve their goals. Kyle is an
alumnus of Birmingham
Groves High School, Michigan
State University and Boston
University School of Law. He
practiced law for seven years
before changing careers to fol-
low his passion. Kyle has been
involved in the Metro Detroit
Jewish community since mov-
ing home from Boston. He is a
past board member of
Tamarack Camps, where he
co-chaired the agency’s signa-
ture fundraising event and
chaired the Young Adult
Advisory Board. He has also
been involved with AIPAC and
ADL, having chaired the
Michigan Glass Leadership
Institute. Kyle lives in West
Bloomfield with his wife, Jodie,
three sons and dog. Kyle enjoys
spending time with family and
friends, running and reading.
SOPHIE LOEB
A Michigan trans-
plant from
Southern
California, Sophie
Loeb dedicates her
personal and pro-
fessional life to tikkun olam
and firmly believes: “The arc
of the moral universe bends
toward justice, but it does not
bend on its own.” Loeb has
learned from and engaged
with the Detroit community as
a former DPSCD middle
school teacher and current cli-
ent advocate with the Detroit
Public Defender Office. Loeb
actively works toward building
a more equitable world, start-
ing at the micro-level. As a
DEI Committee member,
Loeb confronts and unravels
white supremacy within West
Bloomfield Schools. A first-
year University of Michigan
MPH student, Loeb sees racial
injustice as the preeminent
social determinant of and
gravest threat to public health,
propelling her to address
health inequities at the root.
In the future, Loeb seeks to
obtain her law degree to fur-
ther marry this passion for
public health and law.
RABBI ARI WITKIN
Rabbi Ari Witkin
is the director of
leadership devel-
opment at the
Jewish Federation
of Metro Detroit.
A graduate of Goucher
College, Ari also holds a mas-
ter’s in Nonprofit Leadership
from the University of
Pennsylvania and rabbinic
ordination from the
Reconstructionist Rabbinical
College where he was a
Wexner Graduate Fellow.
Raised in Minneapolis, he has
lived and worked in Baltimore,
Philadelphia, Uganda and
Jerusalem. At Federation, Ari
combines his love of Jewish
tradition and community. He
is passionate about building
diverse leadership pipelines
that represent the full spec-
trum of Jewish life. The great
joy of his job is supporting
Metro Detroiters leadership in
the work of building and
strengthening our community.
In addition to his role at
Federation, he currently serves
as the part-time rabbi of
Temple Beth Israel in Bay City.
He and his wife, Liz Traison,
live in Huntington Woods
with their son, Hadar, and
three backyard chickens.
JAKE EHRLICH
Jake Ehrlich (he/
him) is a radical
Jewish culture
worker, a title that
incorporates his
work in music,
activism, community-building
and social work. Originally
from Long Island, Jake came to
Michigan in 2015 and graduat-
ed from the University of
Michigan Jewish Communal
Leadership Program in 2018.
Since his arrival, he’s been a
member of Detroit Jews for
Justice, Jewish Voice for Peace
and other orgs, and has provid-
ed spirited song to hospices,
protests and Shabbats across
our region. As the community
engagement associate for
T’
chiyah — a “progressive,
intergenerational, queer-loving,
justice-pursuing” Recon-
structionist synagogue — Jake
works with Rabbi Alana Alpert
to connect people to Jewish
spirituality and to one another.
A socialist, Jake seeks to use
creativity to critique power
structures and to curate
empowering spaces for margin-
alized people. He lives in
Detroit with his partner, Nina,
and their kiddo Oscar, and is
currently recording an album of
Leftist folk music.
“I FIRMLY
BELIEVE:
‘THE ARC OF
THE MORAL
UNIVERSE
BENDS TOWARD
JUSTICE, BUT IT
DOES NOT BEND
ON ITS OWN.’”
— SOPHIE LOEB
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