Equally fluent in Yiddish and Javascript, Russel Neiss is a Jewish educator, technologist and activist. Russel began his career as an itinerant Jewish educator traveling across the deep south and has worked in a variety of Jewish educational settings including day schools, supplemental schools, museums and archives. He holds a BA in Religious Studies and Jewish Studies from CUNY's Macaualy Honors College, an MLS with a specialization in digitization and instructional technology from Queens College and an MSEd in Educational Leadership from Brooklyn College. He currently serves as the Director of Educational Technology at G-dcast where he develops mobile and other interactive applications to raise Jewish literacy and help educators integrate technology in a pedagogically sound way. Russel lives in St. Louis with his wife Rori Picker Neiss and his daughters Susanna and Daria.