Audrey
Jacobs
Nickname: The Mitzvah Maven
Age: 33
where she’s at now:
Everywhere! You name the organization, odds are she’s
involved – or knows just about everyone who is. Recent activities
include serving on the UJF’s marketing and Jewish Day School committees
and volunteering as president of the Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School
Preschool PTA.
why she’s on this list:
From forming a successful Jewish singles group to planning
weekly Shabbat dinners chock-full of family and friends, Jacobs is passionate
about fashioning community. “Where I see myself now, and where I
always want to stay, is a bridge,” she states. “I want to
bridge the unaffiliated, the uninspired, the isolated [with] the most
observant and involved Jewish people in the community. I want to always
be there in the middle to bring people together to experience the beauty
and the joy of feeling connected.”
girl with a mission:
Most coeds are more interested in men than mission statements.
Not Jacobs. “When I came out here, I had no community,” notes
the former Texan, who moved here in the late 1980s to attend SDSU. “So
I’m grateful that I’m an outgoing person. I feel like it’s
a gift I was given from God, and I have to use it for good. I have a personal
mission statement that I developed while I was in college: ‘To be
a catalyst for positive change by educating and inspiring individuals
and community.’ I wrote that down, laminated it, put it on my desk
and I’ve held true to it ever since.”
where will she be in 18 years?
“Continuing to serve the community,” says the
happily married mother of two. “I don’t know if that’s
going to be in a leadership role, or in the way that I do now, where it’s
on an individual, one-on-one basis, but as long as I’m continuing
to serve, from the same foundation and drive that I have now, I’ll
be happy.”
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