Board of Directors

Richard Cravatts

Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., author of four books, including Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews, is President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME), an organization with 30,000 members worldwide.

As a professor for the past 15 years, he has taught over 21 courses at 14 universities in Florida and Massachusetts.

Adam S. Feuerstein

Adam S. Feuerstein is a Principal at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown Law. His practice encompasses a broad range of transactional and tax planning matters.

L. Rachel Lerman

Rachel Lerman (“Rachel”) is General Counsel and Vice Chair of the Brandeis Center and a member of its Board of Directors. Before Joining LDB as Senior Counsel in July 2021, she was a partner at Barnes & Thornburg LLP, where she co-chaired the firm’s national appellate practice group. Her practice focused on appellate law and trial strategy in complex civil cases in state and federal courts nationwide.

Alyza D. Lewin

Alyza D. Lewin is President of the Brandeis Center. She is also a co-founder and partner in Lewin & Lewin, LLP where she has specialized in litigation, mediation and government relations.

Kenneth L. Marcus

Kenneth L. Marcus is Founder and Chairman of the Brandeis Center. He is also the former Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education for Civil Rights and author of The Definition of Anti-Semitism (Oxford University Press).

Judd A. Serotta

Mr. Serotta counsels high net worth individuals and families on protecting and preserving their wealth and assets. Mr. Serotta has considerable experience assisting families in the preparation of wills, revocable (living) trusts, and irrevocable trusts, in addition to other documents designed to assist in the prudent transmission and preservation of our clients’ wealth.

Joshua Swidler

Josh Swidler is currently a Senior Advisor at Teamshares, an investment platform that purchases small businesses from retiring owners. Prior to joining Teamshares, he spent 11 years at Elliott Management as a Senior Portfolio Manager, responsible for European Structured Credit, Real Estate, and Non-Performing Loans, and then two years as the head of US Private Financials. Before joining Elliott, Mr. Swidler was a Managing Director at Lehman Brothers, working eight years in New York, and five years in London, all in the Securitized Products business.  He graduated with a degree in Social Studies from Harvard College.

Tevi Troy

Tevi Troy is a former Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services and a best-selling presidential historian. His latest book is Fight House: Rivalries in the White House from Truman to Trump.

Mitchell Webber

Mr. Webber is a counsel at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, where he focuses on internal and government investigations and commercial litigation. He previously served in the Office of White House Counsel as part of its oversight and investigations group. Mr. Webber graduated from Yale College in 2003 and Harvard Law School in 2006.

Mr. Webber has worked for a number of years on litigation and public policy matters concerning anti-Semitism and the anti-Israel boycott, divest, and sanctions movement. In January 2021, Mr. Webber was appointed to a five-year term on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, the governing body of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.