Tamar Ariel

J Street’s National Director of Engagement & Director for Capital, South & Mountain West

Tamar Ariel serves as J Street’s National Director of Engagement and Director for the Capital, South and Mountain West regions, helping lead the organization’s national engagement strategy while overseeing advocacy, fundraising, political engagement and Jewish communal relations across a broad regional portfolio. A nonprofit and organizational leader with nearly two decades of experience, Tamar first worked at J Street from 2011 to 2015 in several roles and returned in 2022. Between her tenures at J Street, she was a manager at Deloitte Consulting, where she advised government clients on large-scale business transformation and worked with Fortune 100 C-suite executives on leadership and executive development. Tamar holds an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and a BA in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and Economics from Brandeis University. Raised in an Israeli family, she moved to the United States as a child and now lives in the Washington, DC, suburbs with her young family.