
Leah Kaplan Robins
Director of Content and Storytelling
Leah Kaplan Robins is Director of Content and Storytelling at American Jewish World Service. Leah leads a dynamic team of writers and digital content creators responsible for AJWS’s multi-channel communications in print and online—including publications, marketing and fundraising appeals, video, published research, and diverse social media engagement efforts. Over the past decade at AJWS, she and her team have created signature products, campaigns and messaging platforms that bring Jewish values and history to bear on pressing global justice issues, inspiring the growth of a passionate community of supporters who donate and take action to build a more just and equitable world. Leah joined AJWS in 2008, following positions as an editor, grant writer and communications specialist at the Covenant Foundation, the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, and Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Leah holds a B.A. in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University. Her writing—for AJWS’s president and CEO or under her own byline—has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Medium, Kveller, eJewishPhilanthropy, and Lilith Magazine.