Director: Maggie Feinstein
Maggie Feinstein is the director of the 10.27 Healing Partnership. She is a master’s level professional counselor who has distinguished herself in the field of integrated mental health. She received her undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in International Relations and received her master’s degree from the University of San Francisco in Counseling Psychology. Maggie has presented at professional conferences on topics of juvenile justice reform and collaborative health care. She currently resides in Squirrel Hill with her husband and two children.
Ilene Rinn
Ilene is the Director of Planning at the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh where she is responsible for building the Federation’s role as a convener on community issues and as a steward of community dollars. Previously, Ilene was the Chief Operating Officer at Sacred Spaces, an organization focused on addressing and preventing abuse in Jewish institutions. She has also worked at various non-profit organizations in New York City and Washington D.C. Ilene holds a master’s degree in information and library science from the Pratt Institute and a bachelor’s degree in history and women’s studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Suzanne Schreiber
Suzanne is a Past President of Tree of Life Congregation. She is a Contract Administrator at Encentiv Energy, Inc. and is a volunteer Head Coach for Girls On the Run, Magee Women’s Hospital. She believes that being a leader requires effective listening skills, a positive attitude, and being a committed team player.
Carol Black
Carol Black is a recently retired licensed clinical audiologist. She owned and operated the North Hills Hearing Aid Center for 33 years and prior to that had 11 years of audiology experience in medical settings. She received her bachelor’s degree in Speech and Hearing Science from the University of Pittsburgh and a master’s degree in Audiology also from the University of Pittsburgh. She serves on the steering committee of the 10.27 Healing Partnership and participates with the group Pittsburgh Families Bridging Kindness. She is a survivor of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in 2018 where she lost her brother. She lives in Cranberry Township, PA with her husband and is the grandmother of 3 children.
Andrea Wedner
I was injured in the shooting at The Tree of Life Synagogue on 10/27/18, and my mother was murdered. I’ve lived my entire life in Squirrel Hill, I graduated from Taylor Allderdice High School and from Pitt Dental Hygiene School, and up until 10/27/18 I was a dental hygienist for over 40 years. I have two married children and am a grandmother of two beautiful girls. I was confirmed at Tree of Life, I was married there almost 38 years ago, and celebrated my children’s bar/bat mitzvahs there. I am honored to be a part of the 10.27 Healing Partnership.
Dana Gold
Dana is Chief Operating Officer of Jewish Family and Community Services of Pittsburgh, where she supports the work of professionals resettling refugees, helping detained immigrant children, feeding the hungry, finding people jobs, caregivers and guardians and encouraging people facing every manner of life’s challenges. Previously in her career, Dana founded four non-profits. In Pittsburgh she founded Bridge House, a halfway house for men struggling to overcome homelessness and then, Sojourner House, where she worked with women and their children, battling to regain their families, torn apart by addiction. The other two organizations she founded support children orphaned by HIV/AIDS in South Africa.
Carole Katz
Ms. Katz is the Principal of Carole Katz Alternative Dispute Resolution. She is an approved Mediator, Early Neutral Evaluator, Arbitrator, eDiscovery Special Master and eMediator for the United States District Court for the Western District of PA’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Program, an approved mediator for the Western District of PA’s Bankruptcy Court, on the American Arbitration Association’s Roster of Arbitrators for Large Complex Cases, Employment and Commercial disputes, as well as its Panel of Mediators. She is also on FINRA’s (the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) Roster of Arbitrators, an approved Mediator and Arbitrator for the PA Bar Association’s Lawyer Dispute Resolution Program, and serves as a Mediator for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Ms. Katz received her JD from Columbia University School of Law and her BA from Kenyon College (Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude, Honors). She formally trained as a Mediator at the Harvard Negotiation Institute’s Mediating Disputes program, and completed Advanced Mediation courses at the Center for Dispute Settlement and at Pepperdine University School of Law’s Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution. She is a longstanding board member of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh and Jewish community member in Pittsburgh.
Jo Recht
Barbara Caplan
David Harris: Legal Systems Educator and Advisor for the 10.27 Healing Partnership
David A. Harris is the Sally Ann Semenko Chair and Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh’s law school, where he teaches criminal law and procedure, and evidence. He devotes his research to the study of police conduct, search and seizure law, and the intersection of race and criminal justice. He’s the leading national authority on racial profiling; his 2002 book “Profiles in Injustice” and his many scholarly articles on the topic resulted in new laws, and regulations in hundreds of American police departments. His most recent book is “A City Divided: Race, Fear, and the Law in Police Confrontations” (2020) published by Anthem Press, tells the story of the Jordan Miles case – a case that took place in Pittsburgh, and how that case explains police/civilian violence. He is also the creator and host of the Criminal Injustice podcast, which enjoys a loyal audience across the country and around the world.
Professor Harris is committed to using his work to create change outside of the academic setting, nationally, regionally, and locally. In 2020, he served as a member of the Mayor’s Community Task Force on Police Reform in Pittsburgh, constituted in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing, to recommend ways to change policing; he also served on Mayor Ed Gainey’s Transition Committee on Public Health and Safety. He currently serves on Mayor Gainey’s Committee to Select Pittsburgh’s next police chief. In the Fall of 2022, Professor Harris taught a class to a combined group of law students and incarcerated people at the State Correctional Institution at Greene, as part of the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program.
Professor Harris is frequently heard on and quoted as an expert by national, international, and local media. He received the Jefferson Award for Public Service in 2015 for his work in Pittsburgh and in other communities around the country devoted to creating better relationships between police and the communities they serve.
Professor Harris lives in Squirrel Hill. He and his family are members of Temple Sinai and of Congregation Shir Tikvah, in Troy, Michigan.