jgoodman [at] theopportunityfund.org

Jake Goodman is Opportunity Fund’s founding Executive Director. Previously, Jake directed Auburn Seminary’s national LGBTQ campaign, Groundswell, and managed their media program to train multi-faith religious leaders to speak through the media about issues of justice. Jake was a founding member of Queer Rising, a NYC-based group that, in its heyday, demanded full equality and dignity for all LGBTQ+ people through direct action and civil disobedience. Jake was the Associate Director of Storahtelling (now Lab/Shul), worked for Foundation for Jewish Camp, and was a LABA Artist Fellow at the 14th Street Y. As an actor, Jake performed at Actors Theatre of Louisville and the Berkshire Theater Festival. He is the co-creator and performer in “Kaddish,” a stage adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning author Imre Kertész’s book, Kaddish for an Unborn Child. “Kaddish” has been produced at Jurányi Incubator House in Budapest; The Old Synagogue in Szeged; Archa Theatre in Prague; the Sibui International Theatre Festival in Romania; the Varna International Theatre in Bulgaria; the 14th Street Y in NYC; Double Edge Theatre and Charlestown Working Theatre in Massachusetts; as well as various other cities across the US.