Beth Cooper Benjamin, Ed.D., is the Director of Research at Ma’yan, a program of the JCC Manhattan that provides feminist, social justice, and leadership training to teen girls and teaches vital skills to parents and educators. In addition to her research, which uses lenses of gender and privilege to examine the lives and concerns of Jewish youth, she directs Ma’yan’s Research Training Intensive, a feminist, social justice leadership program for Jewish girls in NYC-area high schools. Beth received her doctorate in Human Development and Psychology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in June 2006.
