​Francine Pfeffer

Francine Pfeffer is the Board Secretary of Chhange. She began her connection with Chhange as a high school history teacher when she attended its Summer Teacher Institute in 2003. As a teacher, Pfeffer was very involved in Holocaust and genocide education, attended the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous' Alfred Lerner program through Chhange, and was a participant in a National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminar on the Holocaust in France.

Pfeffer holds an undergraduate degree in Political Science and French from the University of Delaware and a Master's Degree in Library and Information Science from Rutgers University.  She was a history teacher in Brick and later in the Middlesex County Magnet Schools, where she also worked as a librarian.  She has been a lobbyist for the New Jersey Education Association since 2007.

Pfeffer lives in Montgomery Township, N.J., with her husband and son. She is the past president of Congregation Kehilat Shalom.