Laura Cherner
Director of Community Relations (CRC), Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh.
2023
Laura Cherner has specialized in the community relations field for the past seven years. Her work focuses on being an advocate and facilitator of interfaith and intergroup collaboration, social justice, government relations, and combatting antisemitism. She is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in political science, French, and Jewish Studies. Her published writing includes biographies of former Pittsburgh Mayor Sophie Masloff and of philanthropist Liliane Kaufmann, published in the National Council of Jewish Women’s collection, “Her Deeds Sing Her Praises.”
My network of professionals working on countering hate in all its forms grew exponentially after attending Eradicate Hate in 2021. The myriad voices represented at Eradicate Hate, from big tech companies to academic researchers to those with lived experience, reinforced to me the importance of cross-cutting and collaborative approaches to counter hate and its devastating impacts on society. I’ve been fortunate to sustain and build those networks with many of those I met at Eradicate Hate in 2021.
