Meet The KEFTY Board

2025-2026 KEFTY Leadership Application will open in April 1, 2025 and close April 15, 2025.

Click here for the KEFTY Leadership Application

About KEFTY Leadership 

Our KEFTY leadership helps run our KEFTY programming for one academic year. Being on leadership is a special opportunity for our teens, and one that can be put on a college resume. The skills from being on board are life skills!  

Being on KEFTY leadership can be considered an internship or volunteer hours- it is like having a job! KEFTY leadership members are also expected to keep track of deadlines and play a large role in the planning of events and initiatives. They are supervised by the Youth Engagement Coordinator, Lissie Levitt. 

All leadership members are expected to  

• Attend KEFTY events and board meetings, serve as leaders during those events 
• Promote KEFTY programming to others and being a positive role model promoting KEFTY values 
• Be active in the Temple Kol Emeth community and the Greater Atlanta Jewish community  

To be considered for a KEFTY Leadership role, we ask that applicants be in 9th-12th grade for 2025/2026 academic year, are in good standing at Kol Emeth, and turn in a completed application. If you haven’t been a participant in KEFTY before, that is okay, you can still apply!  

KEFTY Leadership Selection Process:

To be a part of KEFTY leadership, teens will go through a similar process to applying to a job. To be considered for KEFTY leadership, teens will submit an application outlining their experience, including a written response sharing their desire to run. This is similar to submitting a resume and cover letter. Teens will also meet with the KEFTY board advisor and current leadership for a 10-minute interview to share about themselves. Each aspect of the process will include a scoring, and leadership will be chosen based on the cumulative score over the process.  

Why is this the process? 

In the past, KEFTY leadership has been chosen through an election process. While elections are an important tool for deciding leadership, they also do not always allow for new people to emerge as leaders and can breakdown community, which is the opposite of the goals of KEFTY. Additionally, we want to help give our teens skills that can be applied outside the KEFTY experience and believe we can help prepare our members for the real world by emulating a job application.