Berkeley Hillel

Karen Kaufman Pelman

BIO

Karen Kaufman Perlman currently serves on the SF Jewish Community Federation Endowment Committee and Executive Committee, the Federation Interim Allocations Committee, and the Diller Teen Award California Selection Committee. She is also the immediate past chair of Diller Educator Awards Committee. Karen is an alumna of the Wexner Heritage Program. Karen received her B.A. in Legal Studies from UC Berkeley and her MBA from Georgetown University. Karen spent many years working professionally on the international business side of the television industry and currently works in her family’s real estate investment business. She enjoys pickleball (borderline obsessed!), traveling, hiking, biking, reading, crossword puzzles and sudoku. She and her husband, Brian, are the proud parents of 21-year-old twin daughters.