The AJP is located at: 3822 E. River Road.
Phone: 520-319-1112. Fax: 520-319-1118.
Meet our staff
Phyllis Braun
Executive Editor
Phyllis Braun started with the AJP as assistant editor in 1996 and became executive editor in 2002. Prior to moving to Tucson in 1995, she was assistant copy chief at Pocket Books in New York.
pbraun@azjewishpost.com • ext. 135
Sheila Wilensky
Associate Editor
Sheila Wilensky has been assistant editor of the AJP since 2004. She moved to Tucson in 2002 from Southwest Harbor, Maine, where she taught high school and college social science and owned the Oz Children’s Bookstore.
swilensky@azjewishpost.com • ext. 110
Sammie Burkhart
Senior Advertising Executive
Sammie Burkhart started at the AJP in 2005 as an account executive in advertising sales. Previously she was a real estate broker in resale and new homes.
sammie@azjewishpost.com • ext. 136
Leah Richter
Office Manager
Leah Richter has been working with the AJP for more than 33 years, having started in March 1977 in a part-time capacity, which evolved into the office manager position. Prior to moving to Tucson in 1972, she lived in New York, N.Y.
lrichter@azjewishpost.com • ext. 129
Grace Sams
Production Manager
Grace Sams has been working on the AJP since she arrived in Tucson from New York in 1973, when she was a typesetter at Sun Publishing, where it was then printed. She has been production manager at the AJP since 1993.
ads@azjewishpost.com • ext. 137
