Topic: Breaking Barriers While Helping Others

Jewish Philanthropy Podcast

Topic: Breaking Barriers While Helping Others

Guest: Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin

Bio:

Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin is a Clinical Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School and the Founding Director of the Program on Leadership at the Heyman Center for Corporate Governance. Professor Greenberg-Kobrin is a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School, where she served as Dean of Students for eleven years. She also holds an appointment at Columbia University's Teachers College in the Klingenstein Center for Independent School Leadership. She teaches in the areas of transactional law, leadership, conflict resolution and negotiation, intellectual property law and educational governance. She served as the Title IX Coordinator at Columbia Law School where she authored sexual harassment policies and oversaw the sexual respect initiative, training hundreds of students each year.

Professor Greenberg-Kobrin also facilitates the Arev Fund, a grantmaking organization whose mission is to use and promote impactful female Jewish philanthropy to spur change, with a particular focus on the advancement of women. Areas of interest include spiritual leadership, communal life, social justice, and education.

Prior to her appointment at Columbia, she was an attorney in the corporate, securities, and financial Institutions group at Arnold & Porter. She received both her BA and her JD from Columbia University, and was a Bruriah Scholar at Midreshet Lindenbaum and a Torat Miriam fellow.

Professor Greenberg-Kobrin trains leaders around the world and lectures and consultants with various universities, organizations, Jewish day schools and private schools on a wide-range of issues, including leadership training, negotiation and conflict resolution, agunot, policy drafting and implementation, sexual assault and harassment prevention, crisis management, work/life balance, faculty development and training and women and Judaism.

She serves on a number of not-for-profit boards and lives in Riverdale, New York with her husband. They are the parents of five children.

In this episode we discuss:

1) Hard Work

2) Memories from Columbia Law School class of 99'

3) Learning in Depth

4) Lessons in Parenting

5) Influencing Students

6) Start-Up Philanthropy

7) Never Saying No

and so much more!