Staff Team
Meet the team focused on sustainability, civics, and creative change.
Bookkeeper and Finance Administrator
Suzanne Ben-Menachem has run the day-to-day operations of nonprofits and for-profit companies. Prior to bookkeeping, Suzanne worked for Standard & Poor’s as an Applications Consultant supporting the Sales and Marketing departments. Previously, she was a Product Manager in the Business Development Department Dun and Bradstreet Corp. Suzanne’s passion for education led her to volunteer and tutor for Literary Foundations and to work with ESL students. For the past six years, she has served as board treasurer for Horizons Newark Corp. Suzanne earned a BS in Marketing and Management Information Systems from Syracuse University.
Videographer and Media Manager
Holly Lehren is a documentary filmmaker and media professional with a Master of Science in Journalism from Columbia University, specializing in documentary storytelling. Holly creates news videos, sponsor videos, graphics and social media for CivicStory. Her documentary work explores cultural and social issues, with projects like Storytime, a documentary on the cultural war surrounding drag story hours, and Why You Have to Be Black and Gay, an award-winning exploration of identity under apartheid. She received an MA in Media Studies from the New School, and a BA in Political Science and Theatre from Muhlenberg College, PA.
Editor
Jason Strother is a New Jersey based multimedia journalist whose work focuses on disability and accessibility. He freelanced two decades for dozens of US and international media outlets from the NYC region to South Korea. His work has received support from the National Geographic Society and UC Berkeley’s 11th Hour Food and Farming Fellowship program, as well as a US Fulbright research award. In 2022, Jason launched Lens15 Media, a production company centered on news reporting about the disability community. He is an advisor to the National Center on Disability and Journalism at Arizona State University and has taught courses at Montclair State University’s School of Communication and Media.