Gregg Drinkwater,
Executive Director
Gregg Drinkwater is Jewish Mosaic’s director and one of the organization’s three co-founders. Prior to joining Jewish Mosaic, Drinkwater worked in nonprofit communications, at a daily newspaper in Moscow, and as the news editor for San Francisco-based PlanetOut Inc., publishers of Gay.com and PlanetOut.com, the world’s most popular LGBT Web sites. He is the co-editor, with Dr. David Shneer and Rabbi Joshua Lesser, of the book Torah Queeries (NYU Press, forthcoming), inspired by the online Torah commentary project launched by Jewish Mosaic in 2006, in collaboration with the World Congress of GLBT Jews. |
Drinkwater has served as a volunteer, board member or advisor to a wide range of Jewish, LGBT, and social justice organizations and is currently the vice president of Limmud Colorado, a new nonprofit bringing the Limmud concept to the Rocky Mountains over Memorial Day weekend 2008. He is also the incoming secretary of the World Congress of GLBT Jews. Drinkwater earned his B.S. and M.A. degrees at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also devoted several years to a Ph.D. in history. |