Advisory Board

Eli N. Evans, Chair
Hal Levinson, Vice Chair

• Eli Evans, a 1958 UNC alumnus and president emeritus of the Charles H. Revson Foundation in New York. He is the author of The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South.
• Hal Levinson, a 1978 alumnus, and partner at Moore and Van Allen in Charlotte, NC.
• Harvey Colchamiro, 1951 UNC graduate, retired business executive and former president of the Greensboro Jewish Federation.
• Benjamin Cone, Jr., a 1964 UNC alumnus, recipient of an MBA from Harvard, and the former co-owner of C.E. Smith Company, a metal parts business, in Greensboro.  He has long been active in Greensboro civic affairs.
• Stuart E. Eizenstat, a 1964 UNC alumnus and the former deputy U.S. Treasury secretary, ambassador to the European Union and undersecretary of state. He is the author of Imperfect Justice about the struggles of Holocaust survivors to reclaim assets. He also is a partner in the law firm of Covington and Burling in Washington, D.C.
• Alan S. Fields, a 1960 UNC alumnus and managing director of Atlantic Trust in Boston.
• Gary Kaminsky, a 1982 UNC alumnus, lives in Haverford, PA.
• Drew Levinson, a 1982 UNC alumnus, CBS news correspondent.
• Kathy Manning, Manning & Associates, PLLC, Greensboro, NC.
• Stephen W. Nislick, a 1966 UNC alumnus and chief executive officer of Edison Properties, LLC, a real estate management and development company in Newark, NJ.
• Sandra Rich has a B.S. in education and taught elementary school for thirty years. She and her husband recently retired to Chapel Hill, NC.
• Dale Rosengarten is curator of the Jewish Heritage Collection at the College of Charleston.
• K. Barry Schochet, a 1969 UNC alumnus and a lawyer and business consultant based in Washington, D.C. and Aspen, Colorado.
• A. Jay Schwartz, a 1969 UNC alumnus and a partner in the law firm of Smith Gambrell & Russell in Atlanta.
• Eric Sklut, 1980 UNC alumnus, business owner, Charlotte, NC
• Sara Crown Star, a 1982 UNC alum in Chicago, who is an active member of the Women’s Committee for the University’s Carolina First capital campaign.
• Emily Zimmern, Executive Director, Levine Museum of the New South.

Ex-Officio:

• William Andrews, senior associate dean for the arts and humanities, and professor of English
• Marcie Cohen Ferris, associate director, Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, and assistant professor of American Studies
• Holden Thorp, dean, College of Arts and Sciences
• Jonathan Hess, director, Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, and professor of Germanic Languages
• Diana Gergel, Class of 2009, a native of Asheville, NC