Lael Gray
(she/her)

Lael Gray is the Chief Operating Officer at the Peninsula Jewish Community Center in Foster City, CA. A graduate of Binghamton University, Lael’s early career was in marketing and communications. In 2003 she entered the JCC field and was initially hired as the Early Childhood Director at the JCC in Asheville, NC, before becoming Executive Director in 2012. Prior to her current role at the PJCC, Lael was CEO of the Los Gatos JCC and led the merger of the JCC and Jewish Federation of Silicon Valley to become Jewish Silicon Valley in 2021.

Lael is a trained facilitator for Civity and Resetting the Table and recently completed Spertus Institute’s Certificate in Combating Antisemitism. Lael currently serves as Board Chair for Mosaic America’s Board of Directors. She has been an active community member throughout her adult life and served on numerous boards and advisory committees, including the Advisory Board of Taube Philanthropies, and the Boards of Directors for the JCC Association of North America, Building Bridges of Asheville, the City of Asheville’s Sustainability Advisory Committee on Energy and the Environment, and Buncombe County Partnership