Elaine Culbertson is a member of the Pennsylvania Act 70 Committee for Holocaust and Genocide Education and the chair of the Holocaust Education Committee of Jewish Federation of Philadelphia. Elaine represented the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a Museum Fellow and a Regional Educational Consultant in the Mid-Atlantic.

Elaine retired as the director of Curriculum and Instruction in the Wallingford-Swarthmore School District, ending a 36-year career in public education. She was the executive director of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants. A nationwide organization and served as program director of the Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Teachers’ Program, a seminar based in Poland and Germany, that provided professional development to more than 1100 teachers. She presently provides professional development for teachers using Echoes and Reflections, a curriculum resource developed by the Shoah Foundation, Yad Vashem and the Anti-Defamation League She works with teachers and students to connect the events of the past with the genocides of the present day. Elaine has written chapters in five different books on Holocaust teaching methods and lectured across the United States, using the story of her own parents’ survival as the basis for her presentations on developmentally appropriate and morally responsible pedagogy. She is working on a memoir that incorporates her mother’s writing with her own reflections on being the daughter of survivors.

Randi Boyette is a senior associate regional director for the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a national nonprofit organization that began in 1913 with a mission to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all. She has served as the ADL education director in eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware since 2003. Her responsibilities include planning, implementing, and facilitating ADL A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute anti-bias, anti-bullying, and cyberbullying programs; ADL Holocaust Education initiatives, and antisemitism education programming.

Boyette is the co-author of Let it Burn, a book about the organization MOVE and the city of Philadelphia. Born, raised, and educated in Philadelphia, Boyette holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Temple University and a master’s degree in Holocaust and genocide studies from Gratz College.

Eszter Kutas is an accomplished nonprofit professional and lawyer. Eszter became PHRF’s Executive Director after serving as the project lead and acting director for two years through her employer Fairmount Ventures, a consulting firm serving the nonprofit and public sectors in Philadelphia.

A native of Budapest, Hungary, Eszter is the granddaughter of four Holocaust survivors. Her commitment to the Holocaust Memorial project is both personal and professional; as staff attorney at The Claims Conference, Eszter oversaw the administration of a $1.25 Billion fund established by a consortium of Swiss Banks and supported the assessment of more than 80,000 Holocaust restitution claims across international borders.

Eszter has served as a senior advisor and chief of staff, program developer, fundraiser, and project manager at Philabundance, the Philadelphia region’s largest hunger-relief organization, and was the project planner and lead manager for the nation’s first nonprofit grocery store to address food inequality and access in urban food deserts. Eszter is the Secretary of the Board of Child’s World America.

Eszter earned her J.D. at the University of Eotvos Lorand in Hungary and her LL.M. at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

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