Sari Revkin earned a Master's in Social Work from the University of Maryland, and received professional training at Baltimore’s Welfare Rights Organization, before immigrating to Israel in 1983. For 14 years, she provided capacity building to hundreds of non-profit organizations as the Chief Executive Officer of SHATIL, the New Israel Fund’s Capacity Building Centre for social change organization. As an optimist imbued with a social justice ideology, she founded YEDID fifteen years ago and currently serves as Executive Director, helping to provide access to economic opportunities and social rights for people living outside of Israel’s mainstream society. Sari also entered into a unique collaboration with a world-renowned jewellery design centre to develop a jewellery artisan school for new immigrants, and helped launch the school's first cutting edge social enterprise.