Board of Directors

Paul Krantz - Secretary Krantz grew up in New York City and South Florida before his family finally decided to call Los Angeles their home. Krantz's parents instilled in him a strong sense of Jewish pride and gave him the best 13th birthday ever when they took him to Israel to be Bar Mitzvahed on Masada. He is currently working on his Juris Doctor and hopes to soon be a criminal defense attorney. He has benefited socially and spiritually from being a member of JQ International and hopes to help the organization grow in and beyond Los Angeles.

Mark Brown - Director of Membership Brown lives in West Los Angeles and was mostly raised in the San Fernando Valley. He earned his Master of Urban Planning degree from USC in 1999 and currently works as a transportation planner in the consulting field.  His profession involves planning for traffic, transit, and other transportation projects in LA and elsewhere.  He is a Reform Jew, had his Bar Mitzvah and Confirmation at Temple Ahavat Shalom in Northridge, and is now a member of Beth Chayim Chadashim, the LGBT temple on the Westside.

Kevin Shapiro - Director of Marketing Shapiro, located in Cincinnati, Ohio, was raised in Mexico City and Kobe, Japan, but called Los Angeles home from 2002 through 2008. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at Georgetown University, during which time he lived at the Jewish Student Association house, planning and organizing Jewish campus events. Kevin spent his spring semester junior year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an experience that afforded him time to explore the diversity of Jewish culture, his personal religious convictions and Israeli business environment via an internship with a high tech firm. He is currently working in brand management for a large multinational corporation after obtaining his MBA at the University of Southern California in May 2008. Kevin seeks to fuse his professional experience with his commitment to JQ International in order to optimize the organization's touchpoints with its key stakeholders and deliver all projects with excellence.

Jayson Littman - Director of He'Bro Littman, located in New York, New York, was raised in Manhattan where he currently still resides.  After two years of intense Jewish studies in a Yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel, he continued his Yeshiva studies in Brooklyn , NY while completing his Bachelors in Psychology and Marketing at a local university.    Jayson became active in Jewish Queer Youth, a local NY organization that began in 2001 serving the orthodox and formerly orthodox LGBT population.  Since then, he began organizing LGBT events that cater to Jews of all levels of affiliation and tradition.  Jayson currently works in strategic marketing for a large private bank in Manhattan, as well as teach Spinning classes at area gyms around the city.  Jayson's mission is to bring his background in Jewish and gay activism together to create a community where LGBT Jews will feel comfortable at any level of involvement.

Eric Rosoff - Director of Information Technology Rosoff is a native Angelino who grew up as a congregant of Wilshire Boulevard Temple. He led many activist endeavors during high school at Harvard-Westlake and during college at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, where he earned his B.A. in Government. Rosoff has a personal commitment to queer issues, reproductive justice, community service, civil liberties, labor fairness, and the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community, all of which have lent to his leadership and participation in several other organizations. He was worked with Outfest: Los Angeles's Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in various capacities for the last six years. He is currently pursuing an education in medicine. Rosoff looks forward to bringing JQ forward towards its goals and ideals.