Joseph de Leon is a Jamaican Jewish descendant. Joe, along with his son Joseph, began volunteering to document the cemeteries in 2014. Joe helped establish the JJCPF in 2017. He serves as President at the request of his co-board members.
Marina Delfos Harris is a native Jamaican. She holds a Master in Heritage Management and is the founder of Falmouth Heritage Walks. She maintains and gives tours of the Falmouth Jewish Cemetery on behalf of Jamaica's United Congregation of Israelites. In addition to creating Jewish Jamaican Journeys Facebook Group/Page, Marina is an experienced researcher, with an expertise in genealogy, of the Jewish records at the Jamaica Archives in Spanish Town. Marina began volunteering to document the Jewish cemeteries in 2011. She serves as Vice President at the request of her fellow board members.
Diane Lyon Wead grew up in Jamaica. An avid amateur genealogist, focused on her Jamaican Jewish ancestry, she began volunteering to document the cemeteries in 2015, more recently accompanied by her daughter, Alice. Diane implemented the use of Cemify, the software JJCPF uses to present the cemetery data. Diane serves as Treasurer at the request of the board.
Mary Jablonski is an Architectural Conservator and President of the firm of Jablonski Building Conservation, Inc. Her work has included a significant number of cemeteries in the United States including the three Congregation Shearith Israel Cemeteries in Manhattan and the Ghost Town Cemetery in Bodie, California. She is a Fellow of AIC, and long time volunteer documenting Jamaica’s Jewish cemeteries.
Douglas Reid is a native Jamaican and owner/Director of Grosvenor Galleries. Douglas is a long standing Board Director and current Vice President of Shaare Shalom, Jamaica’s only synagogue, established in 1912.
Toni Pitock is a historian of the Atlantic world and professor of History and Jewish Studies. She is interested in Jewish migration and life in the Western hemisphere and is working on a book about an eighteenth-century Ashkenazi trade network centered in Philadelphia. She is a long time volunteer documenting Jamaica’s Jewish cemeteries. Toni serves as secretary at the request of the board
Directors Emeriti
Ainsley Henriques’ involvement and leadership in Jewish life and heritage began in 1958 when he served as president of the Reading University Jewish Club and continues to the present. He has dedicated much of his life to Jamaican Jewry and is its recognized authority both in and outside of Jamaica. Ainsley usually serves as the first contact for those inquiring about Jamaican Jewry.
David London is an attorney in private practice in Boulder, Colorado. He has been an avid volunteer in the cataloging of the island's Jewish cemeteries.
Rachel Frankel is principal of the firm Rachel Frankel Architecture. She is co-author with Aviva Ben-Ur of Remnant Stones: The Jewish Cemeteries of Suriname. Beginning in 2007, at the request of Ainsley Cohen Henriques, she began leading Caribbean Volunteer Expeditions volunteers in documenting Jamaica's historic Jewish cemeteries.