Rebecca Polivy

Rebecca Polivy was born and raised in Connecticut has lived in many places in the United States and in southeast Africa.  She currently resides in Jerusalem.  After completing a Master's degree in Conflict Transformation from the School for International Training in Brattleboro, VT, she moved to the region to work on various projects which focus on improving relationships between Arabs and Jews in the Middle East.  While working for Search for Common Ground’s Jerusalem office, she coordinated the 2007 and 2008 annual Eliav-Sartawi awards for Middle Eastern Journalism.  While the 2007 awards ceremony was held at Columbia University in New York, the 2008 event took place, for the first time, in Jerusalem, and included a live musical performance by top Israeli and Palestinian musicians David Broza and Wala’at.  Rebecca has contributed to the design and implementation of a number of projects in the region that emphasize sports, social entrepreneurship, and print and television media as tools for conflict transformation.  Rebecca is an avid traveler, skier, Ultimate Frisbee player, music listener, and seeker of experiential education.  

One-Liner: FUN - A Follow-up Network -- intends to build an infrastructure to transform the impact of Jewish-Arab encounter programs from short-term to long-term sustainability and to cultivate a civic leadership for the next generation that is committed to social change, most ideally, Israeli/Palestinian reconciliation.