SEED, Social Entrepreneurial Expertise and Development since Jan 1998
Managing Director
Project for School Innovation Jul 2005 - Feb 2012
Executive Director
Boston Greenspace Alliance 2004 - 2005
Past President
Fulbright Commission - Czech Republic Feb 2004 - Jul 2004
Fulbright Scholar
City Year Boston 1998 - 2001
Civic Engagement Consultant
Education:
Harvard University Kennedy School of Government 1997 - 1998
MPA, International, Non-Profit Organizations
New England Culinary Institute 1982 - 1984
Diplome Culinaire, Classical Culinary
Hampshire College 1977 - 1981
BA, Psych, Sociology
Kinneret Hebrew Day School
Skills:
Nonprofits Organizational Development Non Profits Program Management Grant Writing Entrepreneurship Social Entrepreneurship Ngos Community Development Program Development International Development Strategic Planning Grants Leadership Development Capacity Building Program Evaluation Mental Health Environmental Education People Skills Humor Creativity Culinary Adventure Travel Community Outreach
Interests:
Children Education Environment Urban Open Space and Community Development Hiking and Kayaking Fiber Arts Arts and Culture Local Food and Agriculture Health
The neuroscientist Ruth Feldman, a professor at Reichman University, near Tel Aviv in Israel, scanned the brains of 89 couples with new babies. Roughly half of the couples were heterosexual, with a traditional division of labour the mother acting as primary caregiver and the father a secondary o
A range of recent studies show how flexible parenting roles can be. Psychology professor Ruth Feldman of Israels Bar-Ilan University has found that, just like mothers, fathers experience a hormonal boost when caring for their babies, which helps the bonding process. When dads are the main caregiver
Date: Jun 12, 2019
Category: Business
Source: Google
Skin-to-skin 'kangaroo' infant care tied to better survival
Kangaroo care may help human infants because, like all mammalian young, these babies develop their physiological systems in the context of the mother's body, said Ruth Feldman, a researcher at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Date: Dec 22, 2015
Category: Health
Source: Google
Fathers Who Are Primary Caregivers Experience 'Maternal' Brain Changes In ...
"Pregnancy, childbirth and lactation are very powerful primers in women to worry about their child's survival," study senior author Ruth Feldman, a researcher in the department of psychology and the Gonda Brain Sciences Center at Bar-Ilan University in Israel told HealthDay. "Fathers have the capaci
Date: May 27, 2014
Category: Health
Source: Google
Fathers Who Spend More Time With Children Have 'Maternal' Brains
regnancy, childbirth and lactation are very powerful primers in women to worry about their child's survival. Fathers have the capacity to do it as well as mothers, but they need daily caregiving activities to ignite that mothering network," Ruth Feldman, lead author of the study, said to Healthday News.
Date: May 27, 2014
Category: Health
Source: Google
Gay dads' brain activity close to both new mothers and fathers
The current study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was conducted in Israel, and builds on work by neuropsychologist Ruth Feldman of Bar-Ilan University and others, who showed that the brains of new mothers become hyper-reactive to their child's cries and other em
Date: May 27, 2014
Category: Health
Source: Google
Dad's Brain Becomes More 'Maternal' When He's Primary Caregiver: Study
The findings suggest there is a neural network in the brain dedicated to parenting, and that the network responds to changes in parental roles, said study senior author Ruth Feldman, a researcher in the department of psychology and the Gonda Brain Sciences Center at Bar-Ilan University in Israel.
Date: May 26, 2014
Category: Health
Source: Google
Fathers' Brains Change for Role as Primary Caregiver
The report follows previous research in animals that foundsimilar changes, said Ruth Feldman, the study author. The morethe brain was activated, the more sensitive the parents were totheir infants needs, she said.