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Carly Pildis

ADL Associate Director, Community Engagement

Carly Pildis is proud to serve as the Associate Director of Community Engagement for the ADL. She has dedicated her career to fighting for justice and equity on a global and national scale. She was named one of the 2019 Forward 50, Forward’s annual list of influential American Jews. She works for Tikkun Olam, healing a broken world, through advocacy, organizing, and writing. Additionally, she serves as a columnist for Forward. Past work includes Director of Grassroots Organizing for the Jewish Democratic Council of America, Contributing Editor at Tablet Magazine,  RESULTS, Obama for America 2012, Jubilee USA Network, and American Jewish World Service. In addition, she serves as a board member for the JCRC of Greater Washington, The Young Jewish Leadership board of the Greater Washington Jewish Federation, JDCA’s NextGen Leadership Council, and the Inter Jewish Muslim Alliance (IJMA).  She has been featured in Forward, Refinery 29, Washington Jewish Weekly, Tablet Magazine, the Washington Post, Politico, CNN, Haaretz,  Kveller, Times of Israel, and the Jerusalem Post. In her free time, Carly enjoys engaging in Jewish Twitter and making Shabbat with her family.