Orlea Marlin

Alum (Davidson School), Associate Dean, List College and Gershon Kekst Graduate School, Director of Kekst Graduate Admissions

Email: ormarlin@jtsa.edu

Building Room: Brush 510

As associate dean of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies, Orlea Marlin provides academic advising and general guidance to students in List College and the Gershon Kekst Graduate School. Orlea oversees Kekst Graduate School admissions, helping students find the program best suited to their needs and guiding them as they embark on their graduate school journey. Orlea also serves as director of List College’s Fellowship in Jewish Social Entrepreneurship and co-facilitates List 101 for first-year students.

Orlea graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, where she received a Bachelor of Arts and double majored in the Comparative Study of Religion and Sociology. This academic path sparked her interest in the interplay between the way individuals use religion to form personal identity within and among a larger community. She then earned her MA from The William Davidson School here at JTS with a master’s in Jewish Education on the Educational Leadership track.

Prior to joining JTS, Orlea worked at the Leffell School (formerly Schechter Westchester) as the community engagement and education associate and at Gann Academy as the Jewish Life associate, focusing on experiential education.