Paul Bernstein in conversation with Helen Zalik
Join us for Tea for Thought, a signature JLearn event that highlights what’s happening across different areas of Jewish education in the Atlanta Jewish community. Following conversations on early childhood education and Israel education, this third program turns to the growing role and impact of Jewish day schools.
Jewish day schools are taking center stage in stakeholder conversations about the Jewish future. Our featured speaker, Paul Bernstein, CEO of Prizmah, will share the latest national data on the powerful impact of immersive Jewish day school education and the positive trends in enrollment.
Helen Zalik—social entrepreneur, attorney, and co-founder of the Zalik Foundation— will join Paul in conversation to explore national initiatives and how Atlanta can seize this moment to expand access, strengthen educational excellence, address affordability, and use data to guide thoughtful investment in Jewish education.
Paul is Prizmah’s founding chief executive officer, building on his lifelong connection with Jewish day school education and wide-ranging management experience in the fields of education, philanthropy, social impact, government and new media.
Prior to joining Prizmah, Paul served as CEO of The Pershing Square Foundation, a private family foundation, and as the Global Managing Director of Absolute Return for Kids (ARK), a nonprofit focused on global health, education and child protection.
The preceding years of Paul’s career focused on government, telecoms, and new media. He has also served on the boards of various nonprofits in the UK and the US. Paul holds an MA from Cambridge University and an MBA from Cranfield School of Management.
Helen Zalik is a social entrepreneur, attorney, and philanthropist. In 2018, Helen co-founded the Zalik Foundation, which has granted over $100 million to date for education, children and families in need, behavioral mental health and Jewish communities in the U.S and Israel.
Helen began her career as a corporate attorney at Powell Goldstein, LLP, and eventually served as General Counsel of a privately held healthcare management company. She is the Immediate Past President of Momentum Unlimited, an alumna of the Wexner Heritage Program, a board member of the Jewish Agency for Israel and the Jewish Federations of North America, and the co-founder of the Jewish Women’s Connection of Atlanta.
