Sarah R. Cohen is Chief of Staff to Rabbi Yehuda Sarna, Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Council of the Emirates. Previously, Sarah was a Speechwriter for NY Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and Chief Speechwriter for Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon. Sarah served on Joe Biden's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns, worked for Raytheon Company with a focus on the Gulf states, and consulted to Open Hands Initiative, a foundation dedicated to people-to-people diplomacy, in Amman, Jordan. Sarah graduated magna cum laude from Middlebury College with a B.A. in Religion, concentrating in Islam, and a minor in Arabic. Rabbi Yehuda Sarna is the Executive Director of the Bronfman Center at NYU and University Chaplain. He teaches on the faculty of the Wagner School for Public Service and is a Senior Fellow at the Of Many Institute for Multifaith Leadership at NYU. In 2019, he was appointed as the inaugural Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Council of the Emirates.