Ayin Press Board

Arthur Fried (Treasurer) loves working with young companies and organizations. After starting out as a professional photographer, he spent most of his career as a marketing and business development professional, a partner at Whittle Communications, and the founder of several media companies, including ColorMedia, Healthcare Media Group, and MDecisions LLC. In the not-for-profit sector, Fried has served as an active board member of Doctors of the World USA, helping build it into an important player in the global health world. He was a founding board member of Romemu, a popular synagogue in New York City, and is currently a board member of the Shoresh Minyan in New York City. He is also proud to sit on the board of Beit Kohenet. Fried is a graduate of Tufts University and the Harvard Business School. He is very happy to support the exceptional team at Ayin Press.

Tom Haviv (Chair) is a writer, artist, and publisher. He is the cofounder of Ayin Press (now Ayin Institute), and is the author of a book of poetry, A Flag of No Nation (2019), and the children’s books Woven (2018) and The Porcupine Prince (2023). His poetry has been translated into Hebrew, Turkish, Greek, Arabic, and Spanish, and was recently adapted into an opera by composer Josh Bornfield. His work has been exhibited internationally. His next kids book, How the Sun Was Won, illustrated by his wife Jessica Tamar Deutsch, is forthcoming in 2027.

Nathaniel Lubin has spent his career focused on digital strategy, technology, and politics. Recently, his work has centered on developing novel approaches to improving online discourse, building measurement tools, and combating misinformation. He founded Fellow Americans, a nonprofit which creates and tests digital content on topics like COVID-19 and civic participation; the Better Internet Initiative, a fellowship to help large online creators incorporate pro-social content into their work; and Survey 160, a software product designed to source data for polling and research. As a consultant, he has assisted more than thirty startups, major corporations, foundations, and advocacy organizations working to leverage technology and digital tools to better communicate with key audiences. Lubin was previously the Director of the Office of Digital Strategy at the White House, where he led a team of strategists and practitioners to modernize the way the Obama White House engaged and communicated with the American public. Before that, he served as Director of Digital Marketing at Obama for America in 2012, where he led the largest-paid digital fundraising, persuasion, and outreach programs ever run in politics, with a budget of more than $112 million. Originally from New York, Lubin is an honors graduate of Harvard University. He is a Rebooting Social Media Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center and a Visiting Fellow at the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech.

Eden Pearlstein is a poet, performer, chronic collaborator, and cofounder of Ayin Press. Over the past two decades he has created an eclectic portfolio of audio, visual, textual, and curatorial works and projects. Eden is the co-author/co-editor of the chapbooks In/Flux: On Influence, Inspiration, Transmission, and Transformation; Taste and See: A Psychedelic Pesach Companion; Indwelling: An Earth-Based Sukkot Companion; and the artbook Speechless (with Cannupa Hanska Luger). He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two children.

Jordan Pearlstein is the Senior Director of Community Resilience with Enterprise Advisors, the mission-driven consulting arm of the nationally recognized housing and community development organization, Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. In this capacity, she sets the strategy, leads business development, and manages a team that works with local governments and their partners to strengthen the resilience of communities that are most vulnerable to and impacted by climate and economic hazards. Prior to joining Enterprise Advisors, Ms. Pearlstein worked for the US Agency for International Development, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, and for several nonprofit organizations, including Tikkun, the Western Justice Center, and the Metta Center for Nonviolence Education. She also cofounded and served on the board of Georgia Avenue Thrive, a community-based nonprofit, and served as Vice Chair on the board of Words, Beats & Life, a hip hop–based arts educational nonprofit. She is a trained public participation professional, community mediator, facilitator, and trainer of trainers. She has an MA in Law and Diplomacy from Tufts University and a BA with a double major in Middle East Studies and Conflict Transformation from Scripps College.

Adam Sher (Vice Chair) has spent over fifteen years helping institutions evolve without losing their soul. He currently serves as Chief Strategy and Advancement Officer at Adamah, former Director of Strategy and Imoact ar Jewish Studio Project, is a board member and generational transformation advisor at The Shalom Center, and collaborates with Bayo Akomolafe and Dancing with Mountains on paraphilanthropy and other special initiatives. He lives in Falls Village, CT, just down the road from Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center.

Seth Stolbun is the founder of the Stolbun Collection LLC. He is a third-generation Houstonian. Stolbun holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; multiple studio art post-baccalaureate certificates from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, New York University, and the Maryland Institute College of Art; and a BS in business administration with a concentration in entrepreneurship from Babson College in Wellesley, MA. He is the Executive Director of the Edith and Bernard Stolbun Family Foundation. Stolbun is a board member of Firestarter and Triple Canopy and an advisory board member of Montez Press Radio and the New Jewish Cultural Fellowship.