OUR TEAM
Joshua Laterman
Founder
At the urging of his children from their awareness of the growth of hate online, in September 2024, Joshua Laterman and his family foundation, the Laterman Family Foundation created the “Laterman Family Foundation AddressHate Initiative” with the philanthropic grant of $1 million dollars to fight antisemitism and hate on social media. The goal of AddressHate is to maximize technology to identify the sources of hate, root out the technological vehicles for their advancement and promulgation, and find technological solutions to thwart and end hate.
Mr. Laterman is a Director of the Laterman Family Foundation, which was founded by his parents, Frances Iger Laterman and the late Bernard Laterman to make multigenerational commitments to a wide array of religious, health, public education, and social justice, literary, and scientific charities and institutions.
A substantial portion of the Laterman Family Foundation’s annual gift-giving are for the welfare of the Jewish people, and the support of medical, educational, cultural, and philanthropic organizations affiliated with Jewish institutions.
Mr. Laterman is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Baruch College Fund (BCF), a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to promote the educational welfare of the students at Baruch College. He follows in his late father’s footsteps at BCF where he continues his family’s commitment to public education, Baruch College, its diverse student body, and strengthening Black and Jewish relations.
Nima Veiseh
Chief Technical Advisor
Nima Veiseh is a seasoned technology executive, academic researcher & TED Speaker. With 19 years of experience, Nima is a Chief Data & Technical Advisor for a diverse group of firms and executive teams, including those in CPG, healthcare, supply chain, non-profit, and financial services.
Nima comes to our organization as our Executive Director and Chief Technologist, helping to guide execution and technology strategy for our organization.
He trained as a field economist under Nobel Prize winner Esther Duflo, and is the author of “Markets with Memory”, a data science textbook. He is fascinated by how people and technology can work together to further human well-being, economic progress and business objectives. He has conducted research in 51 countries, and has degrees from Columbia University, Georgetown University, The George Washington University & the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Melissa Krantz
Advisor
With nearly 50 years of experience, Ms. Krantz directs all of AddressHate’s strategic public relations and marketing communications including fund-raising support, media relations, community relations and constituency-building locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally.
She works closely and strategically with AddressHate’s other leaders and advisors to ensure that AddressHate’s powerful strategic messages are well- formed, differentiated, articulated, delivered, understood and appreciated across all important points of contact-- benefactors, employees, supporters, partners, media, opinion makers, legislators and regulators-- who need and want to know more about AddressHate’ s efforts to identify, quantify, tackle and stop hate. She employs all means of communications and media--proactive and responsive-- to inform, educate, and persuade people about the dangers of hate and to showcase AddressHate’s unique technological approach to addressing it where, how, and when people receive their information.
Working with start-ups and young organizations has always been a passion of Ms. Krantz’s as evidenced by many of her career highlights. Before joining AddressHate she ran her own firm. She has collaborated with numerous organizations on their launches. As a co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of a “dot.com,” she was responsible for the formation and launch of the company; developed the company’s corporate culture; was responsible for all marketing and communications and recruited fifty people within six weeks. She began her career working at a public relations firm that worked exclusively with nonprofit organizations.
Sarah Valente
Advisor
Dr. Sarah Valente co-directs the Sandra Kahn Wasserman Jewish Studies Center at CUNY's Baruch College in New York City. She teaches literature and Jewish Studies at the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, has served as the Marvin & Edward Kaplan Lecturer at City College, and taught at the YIVO Institute. Drawing from her academic training at the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies in Dallas, the Leo Baeck Summer University in Berlin, and the Arquivo Histórico Judaico Brasileiro in São Paulo, she teaches courses related to Latin American Jewish Studies, Holocaust Studies, and Antisemitism Studies. To date, Professor Valente has happily taught four hundred and sixty-nine graduate and undergraduate students. Fluent in three languages, she takes an interdisciplinary and multidimensional approach to her teaching and research, which she has presented at numerous conferences in the U.S., Israel, Serbia, and England. Dr. Valente earned a Ph.D. in history of ideas from The University of Texas at Dallas, where she was a distinguished Belofsky Fellow in Holocaust Studies for five years. Most recently, Dr. Valente earned a Diploma on Curriculum Development in Critical Contemporary Antisemitism Studies from The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism at The University of Oxford.