Effy is the Senior Direc­tor of Con­tent at Hadar. Effy stud­ied at Yeshi­va Uni­ver­si­ty for his Bach­e­lor of Arts in Phi­los­o­phy, his Mas­ters in Jew­ish Edu­ca­tion, and his rab­bini­cal ordi­na­tion from the Rab­bi Isaac Elchanan The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary. He received a Wexn­er Fel­low­ship and David­son Schol­ar­ship, and lives in New Jer­sey with his wife and three children.