Edith Umugiraneza joined the USC Shoah Foundation in 2009 as a consultant and later became an indexer. Before that, she lived in Canada for 10 years. Edith graduated from College Sainte-Foy with a degree in social work and got a bachelor’s degree from Laval University in multidisciplinary studies. Edith has worked for several organizations and the government especially in the field of integration and adaptation of immigrants.
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Lacey manages higher education programs and partners closely with students, faculty, and other campus organizations.
Rachel Peacock has a B.S. in Telecommunications Production from University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications. She has eight years of professional experience in educational video production, broadcast production, and project management. Rachel manages scheduling and production for new testimonies conducted by USC Shoah Foundation for the Holocaust and Countering Antisemitism Through Testimony (CATT) Collections.
Noah joined the USC Shoah Foundation in 2021 as Associate Director of Annual Giving and began his role as Director of Development in 2024. He is responsible for content development, strategy, and general annual fund progress, as well as working with community members at an individual level to grow their engagement. Before joining the Institute’s advancement team, Noah worked in annual giving at Caltech and UCLA and graduated from the University of Michigan.
Since December 2021 Matthew Rabin has served as Senior Director of Development for USC Shoah Foundation, coming from his prior role as Chief Development Officer for the Doheny Eye Institute. He has twenty years in the field, having worked at Stanford University, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He received his B.A. from Rutgers College, Rutgers University, and his Juris Doctor from George Washington University.
Prior to development work, he was a community organizer and attorney.
Lesly Culp, is USC Shoah Foundation’s Director of Education. In her role, she leads the educational strategic plan to make audiovisual testimonies and interactive biographies of survivors and witnesses of genocide and mass atrocity accessible to educators and students worldwide.
Having been at the Institute for 25 years, Kim Simon was involved in developing and scaling the Institute’s impact and reach globally. She directed the development and implementation of key public engagement programs that connect USC Shoah Foundation to its many distinct audiences.
Anita Pace, Director of Technology for the Shoah Foundation Institute at the University of Southern California, is responsible for overseeing the technical network design and operations of the Institute. She is also responsible for the operation, preservation and cataloging of the Institute’s 105,000 hours of video testimony, the Visual History Archive, Access and IWitness websites as well as support and planning for new collections.