Advocacy, Relationships, and Action
Campus Impact Advisors
Campus Impact Advisors are charged with building and sustaining long-term relationships and political and media strategies to shift campus climate. They focus on addressing campus climate through student advocacy and support, community relations and real time solutions to address the rise in antisemitism. Campus Impact Advisors are embedded locally in campus Hillels and they benefit from a national cohort, overseen by Hillel International to offer skills, knowledge, and resources to support the work of these professionals.
Media and Community Relations
Campus Panning
Advocacy Rooted in Relationships
Incident Management
The Campus Impact Advisors’ primary role is to be advocates for advancing belonging for the Jewish community on campus. No Jewish student should have to face bias and discrimination alone.
Kira Simons, associate vice president of campus antisemitism solutions.
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From Campus Impact Advisor Andrea Harris:
Confronting Antisemitism Through the Power of Relationships
In the wake of the attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023, I watched the devastating news with shock, pain, and disbelief.
Frequently Asked Questions
While each role differs between campuses, most Campus Impact Advisors include the following in their work:
- Track all antisemitic incidents reported by students, and support students in filing bias complaints both on campus and to proper Jewish community channels.
- Activate campus leadership network, including students and faculty, to meet with the university.
- Ensure alignment of local Jewish organizations, lay leaders, and sympathetic university trustees so that everyone is working from a single playbook with unified talking points.
- Manage a coordinated communication plan to align strategic responses from across the campus stakeholders when crises emerge.
- Coordinate media response and prepare campus Hillel executive director and student leaders for interviews.
Each Campus Impact Advisor is trained to help students navigate the process of reporting antisemitic incidents to their campus Hillel, university bias reporting systems, and to reportcampushate.org.
The multifaceted nature of their work draws Campus Impact Advisors from a variety of professional backgrounds. Campus Impact Advisors have a deep knowledge of Jewish history and culture and a passion for advocating on behalf of Jewish and Zionist students. Advisors might also have a background in media relations, higher education, or diplomacy.