Chaya Gilboa was a faculty member of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, and the Director of Jewish Engagement at Leichtag Foundation, where she is responsible for Jewish integration and education. Prior to joining Leichtag, Chaya was the Founding Director of Hevruta, a pluralistic, integrated gap-year program for Israeli and North American post-high school students at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, and scholar-in-residence at Paideia: The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden,