Serve in India
Service Corps
Yael Gottlieb
BA, Anthropology, New York University '01
Yael has worked for over four years as a fundraiser for Human Rights Watch in New York City, where she specializes in grantwriting for its programs on women's rights and HIV/AIDS, among others, and manages foundation relations. She has conducted sustainable development work in El Salvador with La Coordinadora under the auspices of American Jewish World Service (AJWS) and helped design AJWS's Alternative Spring Break program for college students. Yael's interest in South Asia was sparked a decade ago when she attended college and volunteered at Mother Theresa's Missionaries of Charity Orphanage in Nagpur as a Rotary International Youth Exchange student. e She returned to India in 2001 through Emory University's Hindi language immersion program in Udaipur. She has also served for two years as a tutor under the America Reads initiative and as a full-time substitute teacher at a public elementary school in Manhattan.