Angelica Berrie is President of The Russell Berrie Foundation, which has made transformational gifts to establish the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center at Columbia University in New York, the Russ Berrie Nanotechnology Institute at the Technion in Israel, and the Pope John Paul II Center for Inter-Religious Studies at St. Thomas Aquinas University of the Angelicum in Rome. After the death of her husband, New Jersey sales entrepreneur, Russ Berrie, Angelica became Vice-Chair and CEO of Russ Berrie & Co., a global gift company known for its teddy bears and RUSS Trolls. She is currently Board Chair of the Shalom Hartman Institute (a center for pluralistic Jewish learning in Jerusalem); Past C