JTown Leadership
It takes a village to run a JTown!
JTown is led with the extraordinary commitment of staff, lay leaders, and volunteers. Forming JTown was a collaborative effort that continues to evolve with time, passion and determination.
Our Directors
Our organization is administered by two highly experienced Co-Directors who ensure that our operations remain aligned with our mission statement and meet the evolving needs of our constituency. As the Founders of JTown, they are dedicated to fulfilling the vision of an inclusive, warm and engaging community for Jews of all types to come together.
Cindy Abramson
Founder and Co-Director
Cindy Abramson has been a communications consultant for many years, working for businesses, non-profit organizations, and individuals on creation of promotional materials, marketing collateral documents, branding, editing, writing, and website concept and content creation and management. She has co-written and published two books (one is a national book award winner). More specifically, and for more than ten years, she worked for Temple Sinai in Denver as a Religious School Assistant Principal, Assistant Executive Director and, most recently, Communications Director.
Amy Becker
Founder and Co-Director
Cindy Abramson has been a communications consultant for many years, working for businesses, non-profit organizations, and individuals on creation of promotional materials, marketing collateral documents, branding, editing, writing, and website concept and content creation and management. She has co-written and published two books (one is a national book award winner). More specifically, and for more than ten years, she worked for Temple Sinai in Denver as a Religious School Assistant Principal, Assistant Executive Director and, most recently, Communications Director.
JTown Governing Board
Sheryl Gurrentz, President
Sheryl Gurrentz is COO & Senior Consultant at Scordo, Gurrentz & Associates, Inc. and CFO at Colorado Food Products, a family-owned international commodity trading company. She specializes in consulting on the design and implementation of strategic, operations, financing, and compliance strategies for businesses and non-profit organizations. After earning a degree in Economics from the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Gurrentz was a consultant with the Organizational Consulting Division of Laventhol & Horwath and with Denver Career and Business Strategists. She also had an independent business consulting practice for over 10 years.
Ms. Gurrentz has worked with non-profits and their boards, large corporations, and start-ups and entrepreneurial companies. She has extensive experience writing documentation for presentation to boards of directors, private investors, and banks. Her consulting work has helped organizations refine their mission statements and expand their service offerings, identify and evaluate expansion options, build their boards, and implement new fundraising and financing strategies.
She currently serves as the President of the Board of Trustees of the Denver Children’s Home Foundation and previously served as Chair of Resource Development for the Board of Directors of Denver Children’s Home, which is Colorado’s oldest non-profit organization. She is also a Board Member of the Mountain States Council of the Anti-Defamation League and on the Community Fundraising Advisory Council for Lone Tree Arts Center.
Her volunteer experience also includes serving as a Vice President of Development of the Board of Trustees of Temple Sinai, where she designed and led a $5M capital campaign and led the process, including creating the financing package, to obtain approximately $3.5M of debt financing. She was also the Treasurer, on the Executive Committee, a Board member, and chair of numerous special projects at Temple Sinai. Previously, she was a Co-President of the Board of The Source, an organization funded by Allied Jewish Federation to create programming for unaffiliated young Jews.
She is a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) serving children in the child welfare system, the author of four books, and has been a regular columnist for the Rocky Mountain News’ Colorado Jobs publication. She has been interviewed on network news programs in the major TV markets.
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