Mendy moved back to his hometown of Boston in 2014 to start a branch of Chabad near Northeastern. He received Rabbinical ordination in 2011 at the Rabbinical Institute of New England, where he also served as a spiritual mentor for students for three years. He previously served as the director of a summer educational program in Mequon, Wisconsin, and has worked at other youth programs in Montreal and Toronto. Mendy taught at Released Time, a Jewish educational program for public school children in the New York area, and has coordinated and led Jewish Holiday services in correctional facilities in Tampa, Florida and Morgantown, West Virginia. Mendy married his wife Mussy in 2013 and they now have a baby daughter.
