After four years of intense Jewish activism on campus, Karen Perolman is planning on saying good-bye to the university and the Jewish community she helped build.

Perolman, a senior Jewish studies major, will graduate this month, ending her run as one of the most prolific examples of Jewish involvement on campus.

While at the university, Perolman worked for the Jewish Student Union as the Jewish Awareness Month co-chair, the education co-chair, the vice president of programming and the senior advisor. She also ran Kesher, a campus Reform Judaism group, for two semesters, and acted as a fellow for the Jewish Renaissance Project, an informal learning group. She is now part of the Jewish Leadership Council, which serves as an advisory board to Hillel Executive Director Ari Israel.

Out of all of her pursuits, Perolman said working with the Reform students had the largest personal impact on her, even though it wasn’t the largest project with which she was associated.

“Kesher was probably my favorite thing that I’ve done,” she said. “It wasn’t the biggest thing, but it was the most rewarding.”

After graduating, Perolman is moving to New Brunswick, N.J., to be the Jewish Campus Service Corps Fellow at Rutgers University’s Hillel.

“We have similar communities in terms of the makeup of students — a lot of Orthodox students in the middle of a big public university,” she said. “I’m excited to have that background when I go there.”

Perolman said she came to campus with the intent of being an active member of the Jewish community but did not know how much of her college career would be devoted to Jewish service.

“I was naturally drawn to it, but I don’t think I knew that it was going to be so out of control, taking over my whole college life,” she said.

Perolman attributed her entry into her years of activism to a Hillel event her freshman year, Hookah in the Sukkah, where then-Hillel President Gary Libbin asked her to become involved in the campus community.

“At the end of that semester, he called me and said ‘I want you to run for this position. I think you’ll be great,’” she said.

Perolman said her departure at the end of the semester will be a bittersweet end to her time at the university.

“I’ve had my time, I’m ready to go, but in a lot of ways, I’m sad I have to leave a lot of the people behind, but luckily I’ll be close, so I won’t have to drive so far to get back to them.”

Despite the fact that she is leaving, Perolman believes the Jewish community on campus will continue to grow in leaps and bounds.

“I love being involved in the community. I really think it’s on the brink of something big and exciting,” she said. “The next few years of leadership are going to be really key to our community.”