You are invited to experience the power of coworking including: productive eavesdropping, positive collisions, and unanticipated connections. Join your colleagues from Jewish organizations across San Diego and experience a day in the life of The Lawrence Family JCC – Jacobs Family Campus.
*Limited space available for private calls. Please let Paige (paige@thehivesd.org) know in advance if you will be needing a private space.
Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center – Jacobs Family Campus
4126 Executive Drive La Jolla, California 92037
Introducing Brain Dates to JPro Coworking Days!
Brain Dates are an opportunity to meet one-on-one with a JPro member or topic area specialists to support you! Each coworking day we will highlight a member of our community ranging in topics from: finance, marketing, social media, fundraising, community engagement, and more. If you are interested in a 30-minute Brain Date, simply check the box below and you will receive a confirmation with your scheduled time.
Our next Brain Date guest is founding CEO of Ta’amod: Stand Up!, Nicole Nevarez. As a social entrepreneur, coach and non-profit leader, Nicole has a specific lens and body of expertise on all things “work.” Drop in to chat with her about anything on your mind related to professional development, leadership, workplace dynamics, or organizational culture.
Nicole Nevarez “helps things run better.” Be it organizational culture and functionality, personal or professional development or group dynamics, Nicole offers guidance, feedback and tools to move people and processes forward. Nicole is an entrepreneur, trainer, facilitator, coach and Educator. Currently as founding CEO of Ta’amod, she leads a multi-pronged initiative dedicated to fostering safety, equity, accountability and holistically well culture in Jewish communal workplaces. Previous to her current role, Nicole served as New York Director for Moving Traditions, a national organization that applies a gender and Jewish lens to engage and empower healthy teens. Nicole has held multiple leadership and professional lead roles for local and National Jewish organizations and nonprofit NYC theaters. She is a graduate of the UpStart Venture Accelerator program and sits on the board of the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture, at the Lawrence Family JCC.
In her personal practice, Nicole provides independent consulting and coaching to individuals and mission-critical organizations to support them in reflecting their values in action. A longtime educator, facilitator and spiritual seeker, Nicole combines her experience in theater with her years of teaching adolescents, facilitating groups, coaching and leading empowerment programs to develop and deliver dynamic and accessible content on a myriad of topics and with varied interactive modalities. Nicole believes that when we do the work to reflect on ourselves and our organizations, we have the power to impact deep systemic change. After 40+ years in NY, as of 2020 Nicole lives in San Diego, CA with her partner, Rabbi Jason Nevarez their two children and Sadie the dog.
Stacie and Jeff Cook understand commitment. They live it.
Black, Jewish and Queer. These three identities weave the fabric of who I am, but it took a long time to believe that they could exist together.
Lee and Toni Leichtag established the Leichtag Foundation in 1991 following the sale of their business. Lee and Toni were lifelong entrepreneurs with a passion for innovation and for supporting talent. They believed that only with big risk comes big reward. Both born to families in poverty, Toni to a single mother, they strongly believed in helping those most in need and most vulnerable in our community. While they supported many causes, their strongest support was for young children and the elderly, two demographics who particularly lack voice in our society.
Lifelong Baltimoreans, Rabbi George and Alison Wielechowski and their sons, 11-year-old Lennon and 9-year-old Gideon, are more than pursuing the good life in Southern California. Having moved to San Diego more than three years ago, they are fulfilling a lifelong dream.
You would think that as the executive director of San Diego LGBT Pride, Fernando Zweifach López Jr., who uses the pronoun they, has done all the coming out they possibly can. A queer, non-binary individual who has worked for many years on civil rights issues, López also speaks openly and often about their father’s family, Mexican-American migrant workers who tilled the fields of rural California.