Sharon Segel

Sharon Segel joined The Israel Project with an extensive background in media relations spanning more than a decade. As communications associate in TIP's Jerusalem office, she is responsible for developing relationships with key journalists from global outlets, pitching news stories, inviting reporters to TIP's press events and promoting TIP's educational tours.

Prior to working at TIP, Segel worked for Hadassah's public relations division; the Women's Zionist Organization of America; and the British Jewish community, where she was a media and communications specialist at the 2009 Durban Review Conference in Geneva.

Before immigrating to Israel in 2006, Segel spent six years in the UK political arena, working for a member of and the Parliamentary Committee Against Anti-Semitism, where she helped in the initial stages to set up The All-Party Inquiry into Anti-Semitism in the UK in 2005. She also worked closely with MPs and their staffers to raise awareness of issues facing the UK's Jewish community.

Segel holds a bachelor's degree in history and politics and a master's degree in American politics from the University of London. As a student, Segel wrote for her university newspaper and was active in student politics. As president of the Jewish Society and the anti-racism officer for the University of London Union, she campaigned for Jewish students' rights on local and national levels and drafted and introduced anti-racism motions.

Segel is a graduate of the British Jewish community's Adam Science Foundation Leadership Program, the UK's ZF European Young Leadership Program and a past fellow of the Legacy Heritage Fellowship Program, which cultivates young Jewish leaders worldwide.