Miriam Bader, Manager of Visitor Services, has extensive experience working with adults, children and families in museum settings. Together with the Director of Visitor Services, Miriam works to streamline and shape tour procedure and oversee the museum's volunteer force. In addition, she collaborates with the Vice President of Education to create 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. Ms. Berek 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. Ms. Berek 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 $17.5 million capital campaign, along with a fund drive of $1.5 million - 2 million annually, special events (each of the past two years’ events net approximately $1 million), and direct mail campaigns ($350,000 annual income). 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 . 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.

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. Ms. Dimun 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. Ms. Dimun holds an Ed.D from Columbia University as well as two degrees from Rider University, where she serves on the Board of Directors. She resides in Short Hills, NJ, with her husband Anthony J. Dimun. They have two children, Ross and Amy, and two grandchildren Maya and Isaac.

Phyllis Freed, Program and Development Associate, began as a Museum at Eldridge Street volunteer and joined the staff full-time in January 2008 supporting a number of initiatives. She began her career running a reading lab for High School students at Morristown High School, and also taught English as a Second Language and High School Equivalency at night and was a hospital teacher at Morristown Memorial Hospital. After making a career change, Ms. Freed joined the corporate world, with expertise in telecommunications and technology at the following companies: The Chase Manhattan Bank, Westvaco, Ernst & Young, Ascom Timeplex, Cheyenne Software, a division of Computer Associates, and Lucent Technologies. Phyllis holds a B.S. from Adelphi University and an M.Ed from Tufts University. In addition to her love of travel and the arts, Phyllis is the treasurer of the New Jersey Ballet Guild and a lay leader for Interfaith Relations at the Jewish Community Relations Council of Middlesex, New Jersey.

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, Ms. Griff-Sleven 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 Ms. Griff-Sleven 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. Ms. Griff-Sleven 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 15 years of experience in programming, communications, event planning and fundraising for non-profit cultural institutions in New York City, including The Jewish Museum, the Writers Room, and the Museum at Eldridge Street, where she has been on staff since 1997. Ms. Milford oversaw all planning for the Museum’s December re-opening celebration, including the communications strategy, government outreach, and re-opening exhibits. She oversees the Museum’s outreach and communications, and is the Museum’s public information representative and primary liaison to its multiple constituencies. Ms. Milford is the mother of two daughters, Hester and Flora, and lives with her husband Matthew on the Lower East Side, two blocks from the Eldridge Street Synagogue.

Annie Polland, Vice President for Education, divides her time between management of school programs, tours, docent education and the researching/creation of rich historical content for Museum tours and exhibits. She has a Ph.D. in History from Columbia University, where she wrote a dissertation on "The Sacredness of the Family: New York's Immigrant Jews and Their Religion,1890-1930.” Ms. Polland recently completed Landmark of the Spirit: The Eldridge Street Synagogue (Yale University Press, December 2008), which tells the story of the Eldridge Street Synagogue. Ms. Polland has served as a visiting instructor for the Jewish Theological Seminary's Department of History, and as a tour guide for Big Onion Walking Tours, designing and leading tours of the Jewish Lower East Side, Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights, Ellis Island, and other areas. She and Mike Smrtic and are the proud parents of daughter Lily.