Welcome, Chaim and Karin!
The Hillel at Miami Board of Directors is pleased to announce the onboarding of two new board members: Karin Goitman, ‘15, and Chaim Ezra Harrison, ‘12. To learn more about our two newest board members, please read below!
Chaim Ezra (C.E.) Harrison Bio
C. E. Harrison is a devoted husband, communications professional, and pet protector. As a Black, bisexual, and neurodiverse Jew, he brings over five years of experience in marketing and communications to the board and has been published in three Jewish anthologies. C. E. was a communications manager at Keshet and a writer/editor at the Union for Reform Judaism. C.E. earned his B.A. in Creative Writing from Miami University and his Certificate in Jewish Leadership from Spertus Institute and Northwestern University. Chaim is also a Professional Certified Marketer® (PCM®) and Certified Digital Marketing Professional (CDMP) with dual certification from the American Marketing Association and Digital Marketing Institute. A native of Hamilton, Ohio, C. E. is passionate about Jewish living (primarily Jewish mysticism), promoting bi visibility, antiracist advocacy, cinema, and jamming out to pop-punk music. C. E. credits Hillel at Miami University as one of the factors that inspired him to convert to Judaism, and he’s thrilled about helping Miami students feel engaged and excited about Jewish campus life. He lives in Detroit, Michigan, with his wife and two pets.
Karin Goitman’s Biography (as told by Karin):
I was born in Israel and moved to Cincinnati with my family, and before that, my family made aliyah to Israel from Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union. I am strongly connected to my Ukrainian-Jewish roots and Israeli background.
I graduated from Miami University in 2015 with a BA in political science. At Miami, I was actively involved with Hillel, coordinating the Israel Independence Day festival as a co-head of the Israel committee and then as the VP of Engagement on the student board focused on engaging students and creating events. I was also involved with the Scholar Leader honors community and Student Court. During the spring semester of my junior year, I interned at the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., through the Inside Washington program.
The program management and development skills I learned at Hillel at Miami, and my passion for Jewish communal work have carried throughout my life. After graduating from Miami, I accepted a year-long fellowship in eastern Ukraine with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in partnership with BBYO. In Ukraine, I worked on developing the Jewish teen movement in the former Soviet Union region and the local city-wide teen club. Upon returning to the U.S., I worked as a Russian-speaking project consultant with the JDC, engaging young adults in JDC’s key cities.
I graduated with my JD in May 2020 from the American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. During law school, in addition to interning with civil rights organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), I was a teaching assistant regularly working with first-year law students. Furthermore, I was honored to serve as president of the Jewish Law Student Association, where I continued to use the skills I learned at Miami Hillel to create different programming and events and foster relationships in the law school’s Jewish community.
I work as an attorney in the Mass Tort Settlement Trusts practice group at Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL (KMK Law) in Cincinnati. I am admitted to practice law in D.C. and Ohio.
Why Hillel at Miami
I would love to continue my passion of developing a strong local Jewish community, particularly for college-aged students. Miami Hillel has always held a special place in my
