Evan R. Bernstein is a security volunteer and the CEO and National Director of Community Security Service (CSS). He has helped lead its expansion into 15 states and opened new offices in Stamford (national office), New York, Miami and Los Angeles. While under his leadership CSS has signed national partnership agreements with the ADL Center on Extremism and the Secure Community Network (SCN).

Evan is regularly quoted in local and national news sources that have included CNN, The Wall Street Journal, and FOX News. He often speaks across the United States and abroad about the rise of antisemitism and the need for Jewish volunteer security in America. In 2021 The Algemeiner placed Evan on Jewish 100 list of people who positively influence Jewish life globally. He also co-founded the New York City Interfaith Security Council in 2021.

Evan has over 25 years of nonprofit experience that includes serving as Vice President of the Northeast Division for the ADL and as the State Director for AIPAC in Arizona. He earned a Bachelor of Arts and played lacrosse at Western Connecticut State University. He also earned a Master of Liberal Arts with a concentration in Managing Nonprofits from the Division of Continuing Education at Harvard University.

Richard Priem is the Deputy National Director and COO of CSS and leads all volunteer security operations and programs nationally.

Richard previously worked for the United Nations Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate and Department of Peacekeeping Operations’ Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions. In these roles, he assessed national security frameworks and provided training to intelligence and law enforcement agencies in over a dozen countries.

He was stationed in Southeast Asia for two years to research transnational organized crime and terrorist groups for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.

Richard also served as the New York Director for International Affairs at the Anti-Defamation League and developed a protocol for the ADL’s regional office on responding to terrorist attacks on the Jewish community. This was implemented after the Jersey City shooting and Monsey stabbing attacks.

Prior to moving to the United States, Richard led community security training for the official security and safety organization of the Jewish community in the Netherlands. He completed his military service in a paratrooper reconnaissance unit of the IDF.

Richard received a Master of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a Bachelors in History and Arabic from the University of Amsterdam.