Paula Chaiken has worked and vol­un­teered in a vari­ety of capac­i­ties in the Jew­ish world — teach­ing in reli­gious school, curat­ing at the Sper­tus Muse­um, and serv­ing on the boards of her JCC and Tem­ple — for more than twen­­ty-five years. The author of I Know Grand­pa (Tim­ber Grove Press, 2015), she also runs a bou­tique pub­lic rela­tions con­sult­ing firm.