Karen Small, Managing Director

Karen Small, managing director of the Bildner Center, oversees outreach programs that link Rutgers with the broader community, including public lectures, cultural events, conferences, and symposia. She is the founding director of the annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival, now in its 27th year, and oversees the Herbert and Leonard Littman Families Holocaust Resource Center and its Holocaust education mission. She cultivates community partnerships and organizes leadership development programs. Small currently serves on the board of Rutgers Hillel and was appointed by Governor Chris Christie to the New Jersey-Israel Commission. She received her bachelor's degree from Indiana University and a master's in social work from the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University.

Before coming to Rutgers in 1998, Small was a program director at the JCC of Greater Philadelphia and a planning associate for the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia. She has received a great deal of recognition for innovative programs, including numerous grants and awards for her work in the area of Jewish education and Holocaust education.