Nancy Kliewer - Financial Manager
Nancy is CBI's Financial Manager, working with the Executive Director and the Finance Committee to conduct the financial functions of the synagogue. Nancy has an MBA in Economics from George Washington University and a BA in Business Economics from Willamette University in Salem, OR. She brings financial management experience from other Charlottesville non-profits. Nancy and her husband Rob moved to Charlottesville in 2010, along with their three (now adult) sons. In her spare time, you can usually find Nancy somewhere with knitting in her hands.
Sydnee Wurtz - Engagement Manager

Sydnee moved to Charlottesville in 2021 to attend UVA for graduate school for Religious Studies, specializing in Judaism and conflict. She worked for the Jewish Studies Program at UVA and now happily found her home with CBI. Sydnee is the Engagement Coordinator, so you will see her all over wearing many different hats but always a smile. Sydnee works at the Forest School, Shorashim, and Camp CBI, so she has already met many of you and your amazing children. Sydnee also works during Shabbat services; you can spot her above your heads live streaming from the main sanctuary balcony. Sydnee is also involved with BITY, JewC, and committee groups here at CBI. Sydnee is originally from New Jersey, specifically the Jersey Shore (no she does not fist pump, but she can pump her own gas). You can find Sydnee outside swimming, hiking, causing camp mayhem, or wandering around beautiful Charlottesville. If you want to share cat pictures, talk about the beautiful town we all share, or simply have a conversation, reach out to Sydnee!
Latifa Kropf - Senior Connections Manager

Latifa Berry Kropf has been the Senior Connections Manager since 2015 through a generous grant from the United Jewish Fund for Charlottesville. In this role she has the pleasure of meeting with seniors one on one and creating Jewish and festival programming. She was also trained by the Institute of Jewish Spirituality as a Wise Aging facilitator and presently has three ongoing wise aging groups.
Latifa is also the co-leader of P’nai Yisrel Chavurah , a Jewish renewal community which has been in Charlottesville for over 30 years. She has choreographed and taught Jewish Sacred Dance to adults and children around the country and published teaching materials. She was also the first teacher and one of the founders of the CBI preschool besides being a public school elementary school teacher and reading specialist. While teaching at CBI, she wrote a series of Jewish themed books featuring her students. These books were published by Kar-Ben and include "It's Challah Time", "It's Sukkot Time" "It's Chanukah Time," "It's Purim Time", "It's Shofar Time" and "It's Seder Time."