Miriam Bader, Director of Education, has extensive experience working with adults, children and families in museum settings. Miriam works to streamline and shape tour procedure and oversee the museum's volunteer force. She creates new programs to serve the Museum's growing school and family audience. Prior to joining the Museum staff, Miriam worked at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Lower East Side Tenement Museum, Jewish Museum, and as an elementary school teacher. Miriam holds an MS in Museum Education from Bank Street College and a certificate from the Institute in Jewish Art at the Jewish Theological Seminary.

Masha Berek, Director, Visitor Services brings to the Museum fifteen years of experience in arts, cultural policy, and non-profit management. A native of Russia, she has studied, worked and conducted research in Israel, India, Japan and the United States. Most recently she served as Executive Director of the Institute for Cultural Enterprise. Masha also co-founded Arts, Culture, and Communities in International Development (ACCID), a forum to engage practitioners and policy experts on best practices in cultural policy at The New School; helped launch the India-China Institute, an organization committed to deepening mutual understanding and fostering collaboration among India, China, and the United States; and worked in India to organize artisans' cooperatives whose aim was to boost women's role as productive and vocal actors in rural communities. Masha received her B.A. in Visual and Cultural Studies and her M.A. in International Affairs from The New School.

Eva Bruné, Vice President for Institutional Advancement, has more than 30 years experience in non-profit management and fundraising. As sole development staff person at the Museum at Eldridge Street, Eva was responsible for planning and implementing the organization’s successful $18.5 million capital campaign. Prior to joining the Museum at Eldridge Street, Eva served as Executive Director for The CityKids Foundation, Managing Director for INTAR Hispanic American Arts Center, and Director for Institutional Advancement for the Dance Theatre of Harlem, Young Audiences, Inc., and the Big Apple Circus. She has served as a grant evaluator and/or panelist for numerous institutions and agencies including the Arts and Business Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the State Arts Councils of Alaska, Florida and New Jersey. She serves on the Advisory Board for the Irish Theatre Company, Origin Theatre Company, as well as an advisor to the Rural China Education Foundation. Eva is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts awards – a Visual Arts grant for her sculpture and a Fellowship for her arts management work. Eva received her BFA and California teaching credential from the California College of Arts, and is currently completing a Certificate in Global Affairs from New York University ’s Continuing Education Program.

Nina Zoe Cohen, Education and Special Projects Coordinator, has spent the past few years immersing herself in the worlds of museum education and historical research. Nina creates and manages historical projects at the Museum, including thematic walking tours of the Lower East Side neighborhood and an off-site traveling tour. Prior to joining the Museum staff, Nina worked as an educator for the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, and as an intern at MAES throughout her college career. In addition to her role at the Museum, Nina is a Research Assistant for a forthcoming publication from New York University Press on Lower East Side culture and religion. Her passion for education led her as far as Minsk, Belarus, where Nina created and implemented programming for teenagers living in the former Soviet state without any form of Jewish education. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Nina graduated Summa Cum Laude from Barnard College with a BA in History, concentrating in Religion and Society (February 2009).

Bonnie Dimun, Executive Director, who joined the Museum at Eldridge Street in April 2007, brings a wealth of experience in the non-profit, corporate and university arenas. She founded and was president of Dynamics for Change, a management consulting firm focusing on client relations, business development, and alliance partnerships. Bonnie also served as National Director of Education and Public Policy at Hadassah, the world’s largest women’s non-profit organization. There she created and managed the Leadership, Education and Training Center. Prior to that, she was Executive Director of Organization Advancement for Middlesex County College. Bonnie holds an Ed.D from Columbia University as well as two degrees from Rider University, where she serves on the Board of Directors.

Shaina Feinberg, Special Project Manager at the Museum at Eldridge Street, has over a decade of experience growing nonprofit organizations. She began her career at the New York Writers Coalition, an organization that brings free creative writing workshops to underserved communitites, where she helped to define and stregthen its mission and created original programing. Shaina then worked with other nonprofits, including as Producer of Special Projects at Reboot, an organization dedicated to encouraging young Jews to re-examine and redefine their relationship to Judaism. More recently, she has worked alongside a number of nonprofits, helping to usher them into the 21st Century. Working with the Slingshot Fund, a small nonprofit devoted to helping the next generation learn to give, Shaina created a multi-media tool that enables children to conduct oral histories of their grandparents, as well, she created a CD of 15 note-worthy grandparent oral histories to accompany the tool. Shaina graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1999 with a BA in Literature and Creative Writing.

Hanna Griff-Sleven, Director of Family History Center & Cultural Programs, conceives, plans and runs the Museum at Eldridge Street’s concerts, lectures, readings, festivals, and other public programs. Prior to joining the Museum’s staff, Hanna was a Program Officer in the Folk Arts Program of the New York State Council on the Arts and, for one year, the program's Acting Director. She holds a Ph.D. in Folklore and American Studies from Indiana University. In the early 1990s Hanna directed Toldot Iowa, which collected oral histories of Jews in Iowa, and more recently served as Oral Historian for the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience in Jackson, Mississippi. She has been a Senior Lecturer in American Studies at Grinnell College and was for two years Assistant Professor, Faculty of International Studies, Sanyo Gakuen University, Okayama, Japan, and Visiting Associate Professor at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. Hanna is an adjunct professor at NYU, CUNY and the Eugene Lang College at the New School for Liberal Arts. She has published in academic journals and has been a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars.

Amy Stein Milford, Deputy Director, has more than 20 years of experience in senior management positions for non-profit cultural institutions in New York City. She has worked at The Jewish Museum, the Writers Room, and the Museum at Eldridge Street, where she has been on staff since 1997. Amy oversaw all planning for the Museum’s 2007 re-opening, including the communications strategy, government outreach, and re-opening exhibits. She oversees the Museum’s interpretive planning, outreach and communications, and is the Museum’s public information representative and primary liaison to its multiple constituencies. Amy is the mother of two daughters, Hester and Flora, and lives with her husband Matthew on the Lower East Side.