Antisemitism Panel

Adam Maslia: Director of SD Coalition against Antisemitism

Hillel SD Student and Professor Representatives

Sara Brown

Sara E. Brown, Ph.D. is a nonprofit executive, educator, and global expert on genocide studies. Holding the first Ph.D. in comparative genocide studies from Clark University’s Strassler Center, she has led Holocaust and human rights education initiatives, including at USC Shoah Foundation and Chhange.

With extensive experience in advocacy and research, Sara has worked in Israel, Rwanda, and Tanzanian refugee camps. She has taught at San Diego State, Kean, and Worcester State universities and is widely published.

She is the author of Gender and the Genocide in Rwanda and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook on Religion, Mass Atrocity, and Genocide, and has consulted for the UN, Aegis Trust, and Common Circles.

Karen Parry

Karen Parry's life work is building a brighter Jewish future for our community. With over a decade in Jewish communal leadership, she is deeply invested in building systems and opportunities that empower young people to stay strongly connected to Jewish life, learning, and Israel. Karen is the Executive Director of Hillel of San Diego- a multi-campus Hillel that supports Jewish life at UCSD, SDSU, Cal State San Marcos, and USD. In her role she oversees the strategic vision of the organization. Under her tenure, Hillel of San Diego has doubled in size and impact- reaching more students than ever before and anchoring them in Jewish life across the San Diego community through partnerships and meaningful experiences.

Previously she’s served as the Development Director of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. As a San Diego native, Karen was the Education Director at Temple Adat Shalom and got her start in Jewish engagement as the Teen Director, JCC Maccabi Games Delegation Head, and Assistant Camp Jaycee Director at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus. Karen is a proud alum of the Wexner Field Fellowship, JCCA Merrin Teen Professionals Fellowship, and served as part of URJ's Community of Practice in Congregational Education.

Nicole Bernstein

Nicole Bernstein is a former high-tech executive who left Qualcomm in 2012 to focus on Jewish nonprofit work, political advocacy, and grassroots organizing. A granddaughter of Holocaust survivors and the first American-born child of an Israeli immigrant family, she spent a decade in Tel Aviv as a startup executive, earning recognition as one of Israel’s “Top 10 Best Women-Led Companies” in 2007.
She has served as the San Diego Executive Director of StandWithUs and AIPAC’s San Diego Director. Now based in Carmel Valley, she sits on the Del Mar Union School District Equity Advisory Committee.
In 2021, Nicole co-founded PeerK12, a grassroots organization unapologetically combating institutionalized Jew-hatred in K-12 education by mobilizing communities for legal protections, policy reform, and curriculum transparency. Visit www.peerk12.org to learn more.