Ariel Groveman Weiner is Chair of the Board of Yeshivat Maharat and serves on the boards of JOFA, the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at Penn and Penn Hillel. Ariel is an Advisory Board member of Midreshet Lindenbaum's Women's Institute for Halachik Leadership, serves on SAR Academy's Board of Education and is currently participating in the Wexner Heritage Fellowship.  For over a decade, Ariel served as the Associate Director of The Samuel Bronfman Foundation where she oversaw the foundation's grant portfolio and worked closely with the various initiatives the foundation supports, specifically focusing on strategic and long term planning. Ariel received her BA and MA in Jewish History from the University of Pennsylvania and lives in Riverdale with her husband, Josh, and their three children, Ilan, Yael, and Meirav.