Neil Markowitz

Neil Markowitz is a former member of the ALEPH Board where he served for 5 years working on a range of program partnership and development projects as well as participating as a member of the Executive Committee of the Board. Neil has a BS. From Rutgers University in Environmental Science and MS in Environmental Education from the University of Michigan. Neil taught in the College of Education at Deakin University in Australia for 4 years in the mid-1980’s before becoming the founding Director of the Environmental Education Exchange a 34-year-old non-profit organization based in Tucson, Arizona. The Exchange, now in its 34th year, has a 40 member staff that creates educational materials on environmental topics for agencies, organizations, and municipalities throughout the Desert Southwest, the US, and internationally. The organization annually delivers over 3,500 classroom presentations on climate change, renewable energy, and water conservation, reaching over 90,000 K-12 students each school year. During his time in Tucson Neil served on the Board of the Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona. He participated on the Executive leadership team for over a decade and was a founding Board Member of the Tucson Jewish Museum & Holocaust History Center. A chance encounter with R. Daniel Seigel in 1993 at a lecture on Eco-Kashrut launched a lifelong interest in Jewish Renewal. Neil currently serves as Treasurer for the Shoresh Minyan, a Renewal-inspired minyan on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Neil and his partner of 30 years Ilana have two children and live in New York City. Neil can be found birdwatching regularly in Central Park.