Amy Ripps

Amy Ripps has worked in Jewish education for over 40 years. Her experience includes teaching, supervising and mentoring teachers, planning and implementing experiential education programs and family programs, youth work and adult education. While primarily, her work has been in “part-time” synagogue/temple schools, she also worked as a teacher for the Melton Adult Education program. She got her start in Jewish education as a teenager in NJ, she had her first job in the field while in university in Pittsburgh and then spent 12 years working in the DC area before moving to Raleigh, NC, in the early 90s. Initially stepping up to help her own community as the interim director of the school, she spent 19 years as director of Lifelong Learning in that community. Now retired from full-time work, she spends her time tutoring, consulting to small communities and volunteering for Jewish educational organizations. She has an MA in Jewish Education from the Davidson School at the Jewish Theological Seminary.