J Street Board Member
Marci Gerston is the co-Chair of J Street’s Silicon Valley chapter. She is also the cochair of J Street’s Regional Advisory Committee and sits on the board of the J Street Action Fund.
Marci is currently an independent member of the Advisory Council of the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of the Bay Area; she was a long-time member and past chair of JCRC Silicon Valley before it joined with JCRC Bay Area in 2024. Marci previously held leadership positions with the Jewish Council of Public Affairs (JCPA) and People Acting in Community Together (PACT), a faith-based social justice organization in Santa Clara County, as well as at Temple Emanu-El, San Jose, where she has been a member for over twenty years.
Marci is a retired attorney who lives in Los Altos, California and Ashland, Oregon with her husband, Joel. They have two adult children.