Susan M. Kardos is Chief Strategy & Advancement Officer at the Abraham Joshua Heschel School in New York City. Her career in education spans three decades of teaching, planning, strategy, philanthropy, and scholarship at the school, communal, and national levels. She has expertise in the areas of organizational capacity building, financial resource development, governance, school leadership, professional culture, mentoring and induction, program design and evaluation, research, and Jewish education. She received her AB from Brown University and master’s and doctoral degrees in Administration, Planning & Social Policy from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. She is a founding member of the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers and the inspired mother of two elementary school children. Email her at Susan.Kardos@Heschel.org