Yosepha Tabib-Calif, PhD is a faculty member at the David Yellin Academic College of Education’s Department of Educational Studies and a Teaching Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s School of Education. Her main areas of research are Ethnicity, Class and Gender and the impact these identities have on the life course. Her book Ethnicity on the Move: Boundary Work and Life Trajectories of Young Adults was recently published by Resling.
Yosepha holds a B.A in Hebrew Literature and Education, an M.A in Sociology of Education and a PhD in Sociology of Education, all from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her academic and professional career path has been dynamic, combining experience in academia alongside extensive involvement in civil society and philanthropy. Yosepha holds expertise in organizational consultancy and programming strategy working with NGO’s, Fellowship Programs, and philanthropic Foundations. For six years she served as organizational consultant and academic staff member at the Hoffman Leadership and Responsibility Program for Outstanding Doctoral Students, and for the past five years she advises the Azrieli Fellows Program of the Azrieli Foundation. She served as a board member and chair of Sister – for Women in Israel from 2010 to 2013, a board member of the Dafna Fund – Women Collaborating for Change from 2013 to 2018 and from 2020 she is a board member of IWN – Israel Women’s Network. In addition, she is a member of the advisory forum to the Committee for Social and Gender Equality in the Modiin-Maccabim-Reut Municipality.
Yosepha lives in Modi’in, married to Yaniv and a mother of Avishag-Miriam, Ariel and Halleli-Naomi.