LINK | People of the Book - People of the Link

It was medieval Islam that first labeled the Jews a People of the Book, along with Christians and others. But the Jewish book was never singular and Jewish engagement with Jewish text was always as much about the links as the words. From covenant and community to commentary to conversation, the most basic acts of Jewish life are all forms of linking. Inspired by 15 years on the parallel frontlines of social technology and Jewish community building, Estee Solomon Gray invites us to reconsider how the experience and language of todays social network technologies are impacting Jewish identity and education and vice versa.

Since moving to Silicon Valley in 1980, Estee Solomon Gray has inhabited dozens of identities, among them tech strategist, marketing guru, Jewish community leader, mom, CEO and social entrepreneur.

In the 1980s, working with Regis McKenna, Estee helped bring the idea of "communities of practice" from the world of research into the business world just in time for the explosion of the knowledge economy. With Interwise, Estee helped pioneer the e-learning platform. Her innovations at the juncture between social technology and health took flight with B!, focusing on women over 35, and Within3, serving networks of physicians.

Estee has also been very active in the Jewish community, having served as president of the Hausner Jewish Day School; a catalyst for the Koret Taube Campus for Jewish Life; a key advocate for the integration of local Israelis into Bay Area Jewish institutional life; and a board member for the Kehillah Jewish High School, Hillel at Stanford, the progressive Zionist Ameinu and the trans-denominational Mussar Institute.

Estee holds an B.Sc. degree from Yale in biomechanics and neurophysiology, and MBA and MSEE degrees from Stanford. She is a two-time winner of the national JCCA's young leadership award and of the San Francisco Jewish Community Federations Jim Brooks Leadership Award. She is Wexner Heritage Fellow, and was a visiting scholar at Stanford in social entrepreneurship as a Reuters Digital Vision Fellow.

Estee welcomes the arrival of Web 3.0.

The LINK program series is made possible by a grant from the Covenant Foundation.

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