181 named professionals across ADL national headquarters, 15+ regional offices, and volunteer boards. The first large-scale audit of the Anti-Defamation League's workforce.
Olam Institutional Accountability Project — ADL Series. This audit follows the methodology established in the Olam Hillel Research Project.
181 Individuals Across 15+ Regions
181 unique individuals identified across ADL's national headquarters, 15+ regional offices, program centers, and volunteer governance boards.
48 hold C-Suite, SVP, or VP titles at the national level — including the CEO, CFO, COO, General Counsel, Chief of Staff, and Chief People Officer. ADL reports a total employee count between 550 and 832, depending on source (LeadIQ September 2025: 813; RocketReach: 832; IRS 990 filings: 550+). This audit documents approximately 22–33% of the total workforce, with 46 individuals verified at 75%+ confidence across all data fields.
Because the sourcing methodology — leadership pages, press releases, NLS bios, LinkedIn — naturally surfaces senior personnel first, the 48 senior titles should not be read as representative of ADL's overall org chart. What the dataset does establish is the institutional pipeline: where ADL's documented leadership comes from, who sits on the board, and what has changed since 2024.
Key findings:
• At least 5 senior leaders entered ADL from U.S. government positions — including the White House (Obama), the Department of Homeland Security (Bush/Obama/Trump NSC), the General Services Administration, USDA (Biden), and 13 years of Congressional staff experience. Two additional leaders entered from policy-advocacy organizations with significant government interface.
• ADL has built an intelligence-style research capability drawing personnel from the CIA, the IDF Intelligence Corps, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Facebook's Global Elections Integrity team. The SVP of Counter-Extremism has led the operation for over two decades and was recognized by the FBI in 2006 for counter-extremism work.
• Since 2024, ADL has experienced significant senior-level turnover. The VP of the Center for Technology & Society resigned with three staff over the CEO's engagement with Elon Musk. A 20-year Counter-Extremism researcher departed. Twenty-two staff were laid off. The Glossary of Extremism was deleted. The FBI subsequently ended its institutional relationship with ADL.
• The national board connects ADL to Wall Street, Israeli investment, major law firms, and Jewish media. Board members include the CEO of Blue Pool Capital (Goldman Sachs/Citadel background), the founder of an Israeli PE/tech firm and Council on Foreign Relations member, a Morgan Lewis partner, a former SVP of The Capital Group, and the founder/publisher of Jewish Insider.
• 18 leaders have documented post-October 7 public statements — from the CEO's CNN/NBC appearances to regional directors issuing local press statements on campus antisemitism.
What does ADL's documented hiring pipeline and institutional structure tell us about who shapes this organization — and what has changed since 2024?
Senior Departures and Institutional Restructuring Since 2024
Between January 2024 and mid-2026, ADL experienced a series of high-profile departures and structural changes that reshaped several of its core functions.
January 2024: Yael Eisenstat resigned as VP of the Center for Technology & Society, along with three CTS staff. Eisenstat — who previously served at the CIA and as Facebook's Global Head of Elections Integrity — publicly cited CEO Jonathan Greenblatt's engagement with Elon Musk as the reason.
January 2025: Rabbi Jonah Steinberg resigned as New England Regional Director.
June 2025: ADL laid off 22 staff and announced a narrowed organizational focus on antisemitism.
September 2025: ADL removed its Glossary of Extremism under external pressure. The FBI subsequently ended its institutional relationship with ADL.
February 2026: Aryeh Tuchman — a 20-year veteran of the Center on Extremism — departed for the Nexus Project.
May 2026: Abraham Foxman, ADL's former National Director (1987–2015), died.
The departures are concentrated in ADL's intelligence, technology, and extremism-monitoring functions — the capabilities that underpin its research authority. Whether this represents a strategic refocusing or an institutional contraction is a question this series examines in ADL Exposed: Every Policy Position Democratic, Every Civil Rights Staffer Gone.
Why ADL's Leadership Roster Matters
ADL is among the Jewish organizations most frequently surfaced by search engines and AI systems when users ask about antisemitism, extremism, and hate crimes. Its annual audit of antisemitic incidents is a baseline dataset used by media and policymakers. Its Center on Extremism has briefed federal law enforcement for decades. Its CEO is the most media-visible leader of any major Jewish American organization.
In the answer-engine era, institutional authority translates into citation authority. Documenting who leads those organizations — where they come from, what positions they held, what institutional pipelines feed them — is foundational research.
Methodology and Sourcing
Between June and August 2026, researchers compiled a roster of ADL personnel using publicly accessible sources: the ADL national leadership page (adl.org); regional office staff pages across 15+ regions; the National Leadership Summit (NLS) 2025 program and speaker bios; LinkedIn professional profiles; press releases announcing appointments and departures (2022–2026); annual reports and 990 tax filings; regional event programs and gala materials; and institutional partner announcements.
Each entry was de-duplicated by normalized name. The final roster contains 181 unique named individuals.
Approximately 25% of individuals (46 of 181) reached 75%+ confidence across all data fields. Educational backgrounds were identified for approximately 60% of the high-confidence records.
Sourcing limitation: the methodology naturally surfaces senior personnel more readily than mid-level or field staff.
The Documented Workforce
• C-Suite: 4 • SVPs: 14 • VPs: 30 • Regional Directors: 12 confirmed • Program Directors: 41 • Board: 14 • Other Staff: 66+
The Academic Pipeline: Law Schools Over Seminaries
• Yale Law School: VP Litigation (James Pasch), VP Advocacy (Shira Goodman), former SVP Democracy Initiatives (Eileen Hershenov).
• Northwestern/Kellogg: CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, board members Stacie Hartman, Paula Pretlow.
• Georgetown: EVP George Selim (MA).
• Harvard: Board member Oliver Weisberg; SVP Gary Levin.
• USC: Board Vice Chair Sharon Nazarian (BA, MA, PhD).
• Hebrew University: Managing Director ADL Israel, Carole Nuriel.
No rabbinical seminaries appear in the documented pipeline. Unlike Hillel International — where approximately 250 rabbis serve — ADL's leadership is drawn from law schools, policy programs, and corporate or government backgrounds.
The Government and Policy Pipeline
Government
Jonathan Greenblatt (CEO): White House, Obama. Tufts; Kellogg MBA.
George Selim (EVP): DHS; NSC under Bush/Obama/Trump. Georgetown MA.
Adam Neufeld (COO): GSA Deputy Administrator. McKinsey.
Lauren Wolman (Director Federal Policy): 13 years Capitol Hill. Wasserman Schultz; Brad Sherman.
Samantha Joseph (New England): Biden USDA. JCRC Boston.
Policy-Advocacy
Dan Granot (Antisemitism Policy): Former AIPAC.
Carmiel Arbit (VP Government Relations).
The Intelligence and Research Pipeline
Oren Segal (SVP Counter-Extremism, since 1998): Recognized by the FBI 2006. Forward 50, 2019.
Carole Nuriel (Managing Director ADL Israel): IDF Intelligence Corps. 16 years Israeli MFA.
Yael Eisenstat (Former VP CTS; departed Jan 2024): CIA; Facebook Elections Integrity.
Mark Pitcavage (Senior Research Fellow): Underpins ADL's hate symbol database.
Joanna Mendelson (Senior Investigative Researcher, COE).
The Board: Wall Street, Israeli Investment, Law Firms, and Jewish Media
Nicole Mutchnik (Chair): UPenn MPA. California Democracy Fund.
Sharon Nazarian (Vice Chair): USC PhD. Y&S Nazarian Foundation. CFR.
Jonathan Kolber: Anfield Ltd (Israeli PE). CFR.
Oliver Weisberg: Blue Pool Capital. Goldman/Citadel.
Paula Pretlow: Capital Group (22 yrs). Northwestern/Stanford.
Stacie Hartman: Morgan Lewis. Northwestern/Oxford.
Max Neuberger: Jewish Insider, The Circuit, eJewish Philanthropy.
Rev. Johnnie Moore, PhD: Pepperdine VP. USCIRF. Gaza Humanitarian Fund.
The Regional Map: 13 Confirmed Directors
Scott Richman (NY/NJ): Wharton; Brooklyn Law. Merrill Lynch.
Tali Cohen (DC; July 2025). Andrew Goretsky, EdD (Philadelphia). Randi Sonenshein (Southwest; July 2025): CMO Blinds.com. Samantha Joseph (New England; Jan 2025): Biden USDA. David Englin (LA; Oct 2025): Red Cross COO; USAF. Daniel Frank (FL; Aug 2025). Jolie Brislin (AZ/NV; Feb 2025).
Also confirmed: Dr. Kelly Fishman (Ohio). David Goldenberg (Chicago). Marc Levine (SF). Miri Cypers (Pacific NW). Elyssa Schmier (Michigan). Stacey Sobel (Connecticut).
Post-October 7: 18 Documented Public Statements
Among the 181 documented individuals, 18 have public statements on record following October 7, 2023. Jonathan Greenblatt maintained the highest media profile. Marina Rosenberg issued Israel-advocacy statements. Regional directors issued local statements on campus safety.
Olam Institutional Accountability Project:
Hillel Series: Who Runs Hillel? | Hillel's $73 Million Machine | What Makes This Jewish?
ADL Series: Who Runs the ADL? (this piece) | ADL Exposed: Every Policy Position Democratic, Every Civil Rights Staffer Gone | Nexus: The Antisemitism Nonprofit Funded by Soros and NIF
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The Olam Editorial Team