A.J. Jacobs is the author of four New York Times bestsellers, including "The Year of Living Biblically" and "Thanks a Thousand." He has given four TED talks with views totaling more than 10 million. He writes for The New York Times, NPR, and others.

Aaron Potek (he/him) is a rabbi at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, DC.

Adrian Salpeter is a Tony Award winning producer of theatre, film and TV. Salpeter’s movies have premiered at TIFF, Cannes and Sundance. Adrian also consults with Amazon Prime Video as a senior creative director in marketing. .

Salpeter is a member of the Producers Guild Of America (PGA), a Sundance Catalyst alum, a Creative Capital fellow, member of Reboot and was selected by OUT MAGAZINE as an OUT 100 honoree in 2018.

Aimee Bender is the author of six books of fiction, including The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, and most recently, The Butterfly Lampshade, which was long listed for the PEN/Jean Stein Award. Her fiction has been translated into sixteen languages, and she lives in Los Angeles.

Alicia Jo Rabins is an award-winning writer, musician, performer and Torah teacher. The New York Times calls her voice “gorgeous”; the San Francisco Chronicle calls her writing “a poetry page-turner, both sexy and humble.” She is the author of two poetry books, Divinity School and Fruit Geode. As a musician, Rabins is the creator and performer of Girls in Trouble, a an indie-folk song cycle about women in Torah. She is the creator, star and composer of A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff, an indie feature film (and ritual excommunication) currently on the film festival circuit, which The Atlantic calls “a blessing.” Visit her at www.aliciajo.com.

Alisha Kaplan is a poet who splits her time between downtown Toronto and Bela Farm in Hillsburgh, Ontario. In the city, she facilitates creative writing workshops with the Toronto Writers Collective, studies in Columbia University’s Narrative Medicine Program, and teaches people in healthcare how poetry can help to improve quality of care. On the farm, Alisha grows garlic and flowers, harvests honey and wild plant medicine, and hosts barn dances. Her debut collection of poems, Qorbanot: Offerings, a collaboration with artist Tobi Kahn, was published this Spring by the State University of New York Press.

Kohenet Aliza Rivka weaves her training as a Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapist & Kohenet Hebrew Priestess to create spaces for embodied liberation. ​She is the founder of Indwelling Dance Collective, a global community dedicated to embodying, elevating & empowering the divine feminine essence in this world. In addition to hosting Romemu’s Ravayah Ecstatic Dance programs, Aliza serves as the Program Manager at Romemu, Jewish Life Elevated. She currently lives in Costa Rica where nature continues to be her greatest teacher. www.alizarivka.com.

Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie (he/him) is the Founding Spiritual Leader of Lab/Shul NYC and the creator of Storahtelling, Inc. An Israeli-born Jewish educator, writer, and performance artist, he received his rabbinical ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 2016. Rabbi Amichai is a member of the Global Justice Fellowship of the American Jewish World Service, a founding member of the Jewish Emergent Network, serves on the Leadership Council of the New York Jewish Agenda, the Advisory Council of the International School for Peace – a Refugee Support Project in Greece, a member of the Advisory Council for the Institute for Jewish Spirituality, and is a faculty member of the Reboot Network. Rabbi Amichai has been hailed as “an iconoclastic mystic” by Time Out New York, a “rock star” by the New York Times, a “Judaic Pied Piper” by the Denver Westword, a “maverick spiritual leader” by The Times of Israel and “one of the most interesting thinkers in the Jewish world” by the Jewish Week. In 2016 The Forward named him one of the thirty-two “Most Inspiring Rabbis” in America, and in 2017 he was top five on “The Forward 50,” their annual list of the most influential and accomplished Jews in America. In June 2017 Rabbi Amichai published the JOY Proposal, offering a new response to the reality of Intermarriage and taking on a personal position on this issue, including his resignation from the Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative Movement. Amichai is Abba to Alice, Ezra and Charlotte.

Anna Lublina is an interdisciplinary performance maker and educator focused on building mutually beneficial relationships between humans, objects, and environments in their work and life. As the child of a Soviet Jewish immigrant, they are drawn to diaspora as a creative format. They reject disciplinary borders to instead explore the mutability of structure, linking social practice, object theater, dance, music, and text to create installations and performances that imagine more caring, equitable futures. After years working in New York, Anna recently started a Masters degree in Choreography and Performance at the University of Giessen in Germany.

Annie Berman is a media artist living and working in New York City, and current LABA fellow. Named one of Independent Magazine’s 10 Filmmakers to Watch, her films, videos, performances, and installations have shown internationally in galleries, festivals, universities, and conferences, including the MoMA Documentary Fortnight, Rooftop Films, Galerie Patrick Ebensperger Berlin, Kassel Hauptbahnhof, Spring / Break Art Show, Flux Factory, Babycastles Gallery, and the Rome Independent Film Festival where she was awarded the Best Experimental Film Prize. Her work has received support from the Puffin Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, Wave Farm, Grant for the Web, the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Arts, the Center for Independent Documentary, Signal Culture, The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and UnionDocs. She holds an MFA in Integrated Media Art from Hunter College, and is a member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective.

Arielle Goldman is an actor, playwright and filmmaker. Her short film DAY ONE was featured in the Nitehawk Shorts Festival, New York Lift Off Festival, The Future of Film is Female and RePRO Film Festival. She made her screen debut as Genevieve Everidge on Cinemax’s The Knick directed by Steven Soderbergh. Other work for film and television includes: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Fishkill directed by Bob Balaban, the upcoming short film Polly directed by Elizabeth Rakhilkina, and a collaborative pandemic short film titled Vaccine. Good. Arielle co-founded her production company, Neurotica Productions, which serves as a performance breeding ground for works by womxn and non-binary artists. Upcoming: The K of D directed by Cait Robinson for The Drama League’s DirectorFest streaming online in June 2021. Arielle holds her MFA from NYU’s Tisch Graduate Acting Program and is a proud volunteer with The 52nd Street Project. She is Jewish!

Avi Amon is an award-winning, Turkish-American composer, sound artist, and educator. His multi-genre work has been developed or presented by: HBO Films, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, SoHo Rep, Actors Theater Of Louisville, The O’Neill, Berkeley Rep, The Playwrights Center, and New York Theater Workshop, among others. Upcoming: HEROINE’S GUIDE with Claire Kiechel (Spotify/Gimlet), CUPIDS with Zoey Martinson (Tribeca Films), and RATED BLACK with Kareem Lucas (Woolly Mammoth). Avi is a Jonathan Larson Grant and New Music USA Grant winner, the resident composer at the 52nd Street Project, and teaches at NYU Tisch. www.aviamon.com

Avital Meshi is a New-Media artist who focuses on Performance and AI technology. She examines the influence of AI on our behavior and our social environment and invites viewers to intermingle with the technology and find out how they are being seen through its lens. Inspired by ideas of New and Relational Aesthetics, her goal is to encourage people to reveal their own agency when they are confronted with AI technology. Meshi is about to start her PhD degree in Performance Studies, at UC Davis in Fall 2021. She holds an MFA from the Digital Arts and New Media program at UC Santa Cruz and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She also holds a BSc and an MSc in behavioral biology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Aza Raskin is the co-founder of Earth Species Project, an open-source nonprofit dedicated to decoding animal language and changing human identity. He is also the co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, starred in and helped architect the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, and is the co-host for the popular podcast Your Undivided Attention. Trained as a mathematician and dark matter physicist, he has taken three companies from founding to acquisition, is a co-chairing member of the World Economic Forum’s Global AI Counsel, helped found Mozilla Labs, named FastCompany’s Master of Design, and listed on Forbes and Inc Magazines 30-under-30.

Hazzan Basya Schechter was ordained January 2016 by ALEPH Cantorial School, and has been the recipient of numerous compositional and project grants from NY State Council of the Arts and the American Music Center. She is also known for her group Pharaoh’s Daughter, a seven-piece neohasidic world music ensemble that travels effortlessly through continents, key signatures, and languages with a genre-bending sound

Billy Michael Honor (he/him) is a public scholar and civic organizer whose progressive and compelling insights have made him a sought after lecturer and social commentator. Billy is currently the Religion and Racial Justice fellow with the Aspen Institute’s Inclusive America Project. In this role, Billy researches, writes and convenes conversations about the importance of religious pluralism in the fight for racial equity and justice. Prior to joining Aspen Billy was the Director of Faith Organizing for the New Georgia Project, which is a respected civic engagement and civil rights organization founded by noted politician Stacey Abrams. In this position Billy mobilized faith communities to break the chains of injustice through organized civic engagement. While at NGP Billy’s innovative campaigns and activism were celebrated and written about by many media outlets and recognized for being one of the promising contemporary movements of public faith witness. As a result, The Center for American Progress named Billy one of the 20 faith leaders in the nation to watch in 2020. Billy also facilitates “Truth on the Loose” which is an independent public scholarship brand that provides high quality thought leadership content on faith, culture and politics

Brooke Berman is a playwright, filmmaker and memoirist. Her plays, including Hunting and Gathering, Smashing and A Model City, have been produced across the US and internationally at theaters including Steppenwolf, Primary Stages, 2nd Stage and developed at The O'Neill, The National Theatre Studio in London, Williamstown Theater Festival, Naked Angels and others. She has written films for Natalie Portman, The Mark Gordon Company, Vox Films, Fugitive Films and Red Crown. She adapted and directed the short film Uggs For Gaza, which premiered at the Aspen International Shorts Festival where it won Audience Special Recognition. Her script Polly Freed won Best Screenplay at the Toronto Independent Film Festival in 2020 and was developed at New York Stage and Film Screenwriters Lab in 2018. Brooke's memoir No Place Like Home is now available on Audible. After writing extensively about couch-surfing and barely legal sublets, Brooke now owns a coop in Queens, where she lives with her writer husband and upstart son. She is a graduate of The Juilliard School and Barnard College.

Having lived and worked in the Detroit area over a decade Chas Williams has immersed himself in the local hospitality industry. From high end spirits to cutting edge cocktails Chas has committed himself to gathering and sharing as much knowledge as possible with both consumers and hospitality professionals alike.

Chava Mirel (she/they) is a unique being in the world of music and spirit, defying classifications of style or genre. A multi-award winning musician and composer whose voice was recently featured on a Grammy award winning album, Chava Mirel is highly sought-after for collaborations and recordings. Celebrated for her rich, luxurious vocals, lush harmonies, and rhythmic phrasing, Chava is also known for her loving and compassionate presence. Regardless of setting - spiritual gathering, concert hall, classroom or jazz club - she imbues her music and teachings with the universal themes of hope, caring, connection and inclusion. Chava’s latest original album, “Source of Love”, is a collection of songs set to prayers from the Jewish Liturgy as well as new songs with universal themes that encourage the listener to create a better future by focusing on nature, family, and spirituality.

Connie Shi is an award-winning actor, filmmaker, and songwriter from Bucks County, PA. She's the creator of Project:Girl, a film series inspired by true stories of girlhood, and is a two-time Semi-Finalist for the Sundance Episodic Lab. Her most recent film Natural Disasters won the Audience Award for Best Women's Short at Out on Film Festival, one of the oldest LGBTQ festivals in the US. She's recurring on TV shows like HBO's BETTY and Netflix's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and her original music has appeared on Gimlet's award-winning podcast Heavyweight. She is based in New York.

Dani Shapiro is the author of the instant New York Times best selling memoir, Inheritance, which was published in January 2019 by Knopf. Her other books include the memoirs Hourglass, Still Writing, Devotion, and Slow Motion, and five novels including Black & White and Family History. Along with teaching writing workshops around the world, Dani has taught at Columbia and New York University, and is the cofounder of the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano, Italy. In February of 2019, Dani launched an original podcast, Family Secrets, in collaboration with iHeartMedia. An iTunes Top 10 podcast, the series features stories from guests who—like Dani— have uncovered life-altering and long-hidden secrets from their families’ past. She lives with her family in Litchfield County, Connecticut.

Daniel Sarah Karasik (they/them) is a writer, musician, and social movement worker in Toronto. The author of five books of drama, poetry, and fiction, they are a past winner of the Canadian Jewish Playwriting Award, and a co-founder of the network Artists for Climate & Migrant Justice and Indigenous Sovereignty. Their political essays appear frequently in Briarpatch Magazine.

Daniel Sokatch has served as the CEO of the New Israel Fund since 2009. During the past decade of extraordinary challenges, NIF has risen to new heights as the great defender of justice, democracy and equality in Israel.

Before joining NIF, Daniel served as the Executive Director of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties. Prior to his tenure at the Federation, he was founding Executive Director of the Progressive Jewish Alliance (now Bend the Arc). In recognition of his leadership, Daniel has been named four times to the Forward newspaper’s “Forward 50,” an annual list of the fifty leading Jewish decision-makers and opinion-shapers. He has contributed articles to leading newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Washington Post, the Forward and Haaretz, and is the author of forthcoming book, Can We Talk About Israel: A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted (Bloomsbury, Fall 2021,). Daniel holds an MA from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, a JD from Boston College Law School, and a BA from Brandeis University. He is married, is father to two daughters, and resides in San Francisco.

Rabbi David A. Ingber (he/him) is the Founder and Senior Rabbi at Romemu, NYC, a community he founded in 2008 that today has over 700 households. A disciple of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, famed founder of the Jewish Renewal movement, Rabbi Ingber was ordained by “Reb Zalman” in 2004. Rabbi Ingber serves on faculty for the Wexner Heritage Program, The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America and Israel, The 92nd Street Y’s program for Rabbinic Entrepreneurship, and other institutions. He was an AJWS Global Justice Fellow, as well as a Rabbinic Fellow in the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Rabbinic Leadership Initiative. Rabbi Ingber has lectured extensively on the topics of spirituality, theology, Jewish mysticism, prayer and meditation. He lives in Manhattan with his amazing wife Ariel and their three children, Baer, Tal, and Or.

Rabbi David Kasher (he/him). An Associate Rabbi at IKAR and formerly the Senior Rabbinic Educator and Co-Founder at Kevah in Berkeley, Rabbi Kasher is a master educator with a background in Hillel Jewish education, who has served on the faculty of Berkeley Law, the Wexner Heritage Program, REBOOT, and BINA: the Secular Yeshiva. He’s also taught at Pardes, SVARA, The Hartman Institute, Dorot, and various Limmuds. Passionate about teaching Torah commentary, he produced the ParshaNut blog, podcast, and book.

Dr. David Ragland (he/him) is a writer, scholar, activist, and educator. He is one of the co-founders of the Truth Telling Project and is currently the director of the Grassroots Reparations Campaign. He recently published a series on reparations in Yes Magazine and currently teaches at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Community Liberation, Depth and Eco-Psychology. David’s work has been rooted in his home community near Ferguson, Missouri. He weaves his personal experience of growing up in segregated St. Louis with the history of that city and nearby Ferguson, explaining how Ferguson became the new center of American racism and Black resistance. In the early days of the Ferguson Uprising, David co-founded the Truth Telling Project so that marginalized voices could be heard and move society to lay a groundwork for healing, reconciliation and social transformation. Recently, Georgetown University’s Advocacy lab included Dr. Ragland’s research as part of the “most important research on advocacy” in the last forty years. David was recently inducted into Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Collegium of Scholars at Morehouse College. He served as the Senior Bayard Rustin Fellow at FOR and as a board member for the Peace and Justice Studies Association.

David L. Ulin is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles, shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, and The Lost Art of Reading: Books and Resistance in a Troubled Time. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The former book editor and book critic of the Los Angeles Times, he is an associate professor of English at the University of Southern California, where he edits the literary journal Air/Light.

Davy Rothbart is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker whose latest film, 17 BLOCKS, spans 20 years in the life of the Sanford Family in Southeast Washington, D.C. He's also the creator of FOUND Magazine, a frequent contributor to NPR's This American Life, a bestselling author ("My Heart is an Idiot"), and the the founder of Washington To Washington, an annual hiking trip for city kids, and V+1, a national effort to combat vaccine hesitancy. He lives in Los Angeles.

Rabbi Deena Cowans (she/her), of Mishkan, graduated from the rabbinical school of the Jewish Theological Seminary in May 2020, where she received rabbinic ordination and a Certificate in Pastoral Care and Counseling. Previous to Mishkan, Rabbi Cowans was the Family Programs Director at Congregation Ansche Chesed on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She has also served as Director of Education at Camp Ramah in the Rockies, the Slifka Rabbinic Fellow at Cornell University, and as a prison re-entry chaplain at the Exodus Transitional Community. Before enrolling at JTS, Deena received a Master’s in Public Administration from Columbia University and a BA from Duke University. She has worked all over the world, including Uganda, Nepal, Israel, and the United States, and is thrilled to be back in her hometown of Chicago. In her free time, she enjoys training for and running marathons, practicing and teaching yoga, cooking, and spending time with her fiancé Zack and their dog Ash.

Delila Vallot, founder of Ascension Film Co, creates uncommon stories that inspire, explore and shift the paradigm while championing more diversity behind the lens. She is a multidisciplinary artist, performer, dancer, writer, director, and creative entrepreneur from Los Angeles who specializes in stories that convey intimate portrayals, magic, and inspiration in both narrative and documentary films. Her background in the arts is in Vaganova Ballet and Horton Modern Dance, arming her with a powerful combination of sophistication, discipline, and grit. She was a child actor and still continues to perform. She is a former member of the Black Surfers Association and Women In Green Environmental Forum Speaker. She has a deep appreciation for diverse cultural influences, and this often fuels her creativity. Delila resonates with stories that break the mold and challenge the status quo.

Delvin Williams is an Ashland, Oregon based actor from New Orleans, Louisiana. He is currently on his 3rd season as the Supervisor of Support Services at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and was cast in OSF's 2020 Season. He has also worked as assistant stage manager and sound technician in local theatre in Montgomery, Alabama. Theatre: Abner and Malik (Understudy) in Confederates (originally scheduled for OSF's 2020); Darnell in Mama, I Want to Live (Acting for Christ Theatre Company); James in Fearfully and Wonderfully Made (Soul Winning Productions); Ogun (understudy) in Brothers Size (Cloverdale Playhouse); Eugene (understudy) in Contribution (Peacock Tract Cultural Arts Alliance).

King David had his slingshot, Samson had his hair and Dvir Cahana has his lyrics. Whether it be through his Rap Battles of the Bible series, Moishe House Albums or his rock opera book report assignments, Dvir dances through life with a musical filter. As a hip-hop artist in his first year at the rabbinic school, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, Dvir hopes to use his music as a means to allow people to access their spirituality.

Edmund Case (he/him), the founder of InterfaithFamily (now 18Doors), is now president of the Center for Radically Inclusive Judaism and author of Radical Inclusion: Engaging Interfaith Families for a Thriving Jewish Future and A New Theory of Interfaith Marriage.

Emily Spivack is an artist, writer, and producer who turned her New York Times bestselling book, Worn Stories and the follow-up Worn in New York into a Netflix show with Jenji Kohan (Orange is the New Black) and Morgan Neville (Won’t You Be My Neighbor). She’s exhibited her work at MoMA, where she was an artist-in-residence, had a column for the New York Times called “The Story of a Thing,” and made a t-shirt shack for President Obama.

Ethan Daniel Davidson is a singer/songwriter who has recorded 11 albums and toured throughout North America and Europe. In 2005 he left his touring life and returned to his Detroit roots where he helps run the William Davidson Foundation established by his late father, Bill Davidson. Ethan serves on numerous boards in the Detroit area including at the Motown Museum and as the Chairman of the Michigan Opera Theatre. At the University of Michigan, he earned a degree in English along with graduate work in Middle Eastern History and Islamic Law. He has also studied Jewish Philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Ethan and his wife Gretchen live in Metro Detroit with their 3 boys. He is set to release his new book "These Are The Developments Of The Human" in June.

Gustavo “Peto” Menahem is an Argentinean actor, writer and director. He has participated in numerous well-known plays, movies, series, television and radio shows. Including movies " Anita" and " Juntos para siempre" as well as acclaimed theatre plays :"Le Prenom" and "Perfectos desconocidos." He also hosts the TV show"Parents and children", distinguished with several awards and which is currently broadcast in Uruguay and the US. He is also usually involved in music projects. He has dabbled in visual collage in a self-taught and amateur way. So far he has published two books: “Manual de Antiayuda” and “La Vida Perfecta”, published by Editorial Planeta

Hillel Tigay (he/him) majored in musicology, and specialized in composition, classical guitar, the renaissance lute, and pop music. He went on to co-found the Jewish rap band MOT. The son of a rabbinical scholar, he has spent his life expressing his love of Yiddishkeit. He spent several years living in Israel, has cantored during High Holy Days since his high school years, and has been a Bar Mitzvah tutor since 1991. In addition to leading guitar services, he spends his time writing music and posing as an international male tweed model.

Ivan Cash is a Forbes 30 Under 30 artist and filmmaker who believes in the power of human connection.His conceptually-driven, genre-bending media projects spark meaningful conversations and impact culture, having been viewed over 100 million times and featured in The New York Times, Vice, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Buzzfeed, Fast Company, Wired, TIME, and CNN.He has received five Vimeo Staff Picks, multiple Webby Honorees, and has been recognized as an AdAge Creative 100, Art Directors Club Young Gun, and Print New Visual Artist.

His work is in the permanent collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and has exhibited internationally, from the Brooklyn Museum to the Australian Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences. In 2018 he was inaugurated to the Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee for the US Postal Service, becoming one of 13 members who decide what goes on the US postal stamps.

Jade Netanya Ullmann (she/her) is a seasoned fundraiser, philanthropist, activist, and community organizer. She is the former executive director of Romemu, a progressive Jewish spiritual community in New York City. Jade is an ambassador for the Social Venture Network, a nonprofit network of business leaders committed to justice and sustainability, as well as a member of the Threshold Foundation, which is dedicated to mobilizing financial resources to change the world. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Romemu, as well as ALEPH: The Alliance for Jewish Renewal, and on the Advisory Board of Bernie Glassman’s Zen Peacemaker Order. She received her B.A. in contemplative psychology from Naropa University, where she was the campus organizer of Students for a Free Tibet. She began working with MAPS in early 2015 to expand the organization’s community visibility, and has since joined the staff as Major Gifts Officer and Connector. Jade is enthusiastic about inspiring others to recognize and support the visionary research and healing work of MAPS. She lives in New York City, where she was born and raised.

Jake Cohen is a NYT Bestselling cookbook author and nice Jewish boy from NYC. A former food staffer at Saveur, food editor of Tasting Table, restaurant critic of Time Out New York, and editorial director of the Feedfeed, Jake wrote his first book, Jew-ish, about his love of modern Jewish cooking and baking. When he isn’t contributing to outlets like Food Network Kitchen, Food52, and Food & Wine, he’s posting challah-braiding videos and recipes on his Instagram and TikTok (@jakecohen). He lives in NYC with his husband, Alex.

Rabbi Jeff Stombaugh (he/him) is the executive director of The Well out of Detroit. The Well is an inclusive, intentional, and innovative organization that caters to the needs of Jewish young adults and their friends and families with young children. Rabbi Jeff hails from Seattle, WA, and was ordained as a rabbi at Hebrew Union College in 2018, while also obtaining a Master’s Degree in Jewish Education with a focus in Israel Education, and a Certificate in Jewish Nonprofit Management. After ordination, Rabbi Jeff served as the Jewish Emergent Network Rabbinic Fellow at Mishkan Chicago. Rabbi Jeff has a passion for music, cooking, and is a student of innovation. He is regularly inspired by wife Stephanie and on a perfect night you’ll find them playing Gin Rummy with a bottle of cabernet.

Rabbi Jessica Kate Meyer (she/her) is a Rabbi and Chazzan at The Kitchen in San Francisco. Previous to The Kitchen, she served as a rabbi of Romemu in New York City for four years. She was ordained by Hebrew College Rabbinical School, and strives to build community through prayerful music, and music through prayerful community. At Hebrew College and in Jerusalem, Jessica studied Sacred Jewish music with rabbis and paytanim from Sephardic and Ashkenazi traditions, and performed as a vocalist with ensembles in New York, Boston, and Jerusalem. Before ordination, Jessica worked for Encounter in Jerusalem, Temple Beth Zion and Temple Ahavat Achim in Massachusetts, and Havurat Tel Aviv in...Tel Aviv. After graduating from Wellesley College with a degree in Middle Eastern Studies, Jessica pursued graduate theater training in London, and appeared in many film, theater, and television projects in Europe and the United States: most notably, as a principal role in Roman Polanski’s The Pianist. Jessica is beyond thrilled to join the clergy team, and to serve The Kitchen community!

Jessie Kahnweiler first became known for writing, directing and starring in a short film called 'Meet My Rapist' that imagines Jessie bumping into her rapist at the farmer’s market, and then dating him. Jessie then wrote, directed, and starred in 'The Skinny', a dark comedic series based on her 10-year relationship with bulimia. ‘The Skinny’ was produced by Joey Soloway, Paul Young, and Refinery29, and premiered at Sundance. It was written about in NY Times and won a Webby for best series. Jessie also developed ‘Viagra Diaries’ for CW, ‘Bump’ for ABC Digital, and staffed on ‘Skam AUSTIN’ for Facebook Watch. Fox Digital commissioned Jessie to write and direct the comedic thriller Retreat which premiered on Hulu in 2020. Most recently, Jessie's short film, 'He's The One,' premiered at Sundance. She is currently writing a series for Sharon Horgan at the new streaming service, Topic, based on that short.

John Schott (b. 1966) is a Bay Area guitarist and composer known for his diverse ensembles, including the Actual Trio, the Typical Orchestra, Dream Kitchen, and Ensemble Diglossia. He has long standing collaborations with Ben Goldberg, Cecilia Engelhart, the Rova Sax Quartet, and producers Lee Townsend and Hans Wendl. He has also recorded with John Zorn and Tom Waits, composed for dance and theatre productions, and taught at UC Berkeley. His music reflects eclectic influences: Arnold Schoenberg, Thelonious Monk, Muddy Waters, ragtime, and Ornette Coleman.

Kendell Pinkney is a Brooklyn based theatre-maker & rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He works and creates art at the intersection of race, Jewish identity and sacred text, and was most recently featured in the acclaimed new Israeli docuseries "The New Jew" with comedian Guri Alfi. His broader work has been presented at venues such as 54 Below, Joe’s Pub, LABA @ the 14th St. Y, and Two Rivers Theatre. In addition to his creative work, he is the rabbinic fellow for both Reboot and LABA, and provides pastoral care at Ammud: The Jews of Color Torah Academy.

Lamar Williams Jr. is currently performing with Oteil and Friends, New Master Sounds and North Mississippi Allstars. Lamar Williams Sr, played bass with the Allman Brothers and Lamar carries on his tradition performing with the extended Allman Bro family, including the late Butch Trucks band, Les Brers and Jaimoe’s upcoming big band tour in 2022.

Rabbi Lauren Henderson (she/her) serves as the spiritual leader of Congregation Or Hadash in Atlanta, GA. She earned her BA from Rice University in 2009 in Religious Studies and History and was ordained from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2016 with an MA in Midrash and a Certificate in Pastoral Care. Rabbi Lauren was part of the Jewish Emergent Network Rabbinic Fellowship at Mishkan Chicago from 2016-2018, and then served as Mishkan’s Associate Rabbi and Director of Family Learning and Spirituality. She is married to Joel Dworkin, an outdoor experiential educator and a brilliant home chef, and they have an adorable dog named Sophie.

Laurie Segall is the founder of Dot Dot Dot, a media company exploring technology through the human lens. Segall is an award-winning journalist who has interviewed the world’s most influential tech leaders including Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook. She hosts First Contact, a weekly podcast series that explores the people and technology that are changing what it means to be human. Segall is also a correspondent for the new 60 Minutes program “60 minutes+” on Paramount+. Previously, she was CNN’s senior tech correspondent, covering technology and culture for a decade.

Lawrence Azerrad is a 2x Grammy award-winning creative director, author, curator, and founder of LADdesign Inc. a studio that works with musicians, educational and cultural institutions to working to visualize the future. Founding curator of Designing The Future of Music an exhibit at Museum of Design Atlanta, and program at Imperial College of London, Royal College of Art, and the California College of the Arts. Creative director of The Voyager Golden Record, 40th-anniversary edition. Author of “Supersonic: The Design and Lifestyle of Concorde” and co-author of “Mirror Sound, A Look into the People and Processes Behind Self-Recorded Music” both published by Prestel. He’s spoken at the V&A Museum, The Smithsonian, TEDx UCLA, at universities and museums internationally.

Libby Lenkinski is the Vice President for Public Engagement at the New Israel Fund, where she leads all aspects of NIF’s public efforts in the United States – including communications, digital, programs, events, leadership, community partnerships and engagement, New Generations and our fellowships. Prior to joining NIF, Libby lived and worked in the Israeli non-profit field for almost a decade. There she worked as Director of International Relations at the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and as a strategy consultant for human rights organizations like Yesh Din and Physicians for Human Rights, for documentary films including Budrus and The Law in These Parts, new media initiatives like +972 Magazine, and for progressive campaigns. She is a founding member of Zazim-Community Action and The Whistle. Libby is based in Brooklyn and travels to Israel-Palestine frequently.

Lisa Anne Auerbach is an artist, student and teacher asking questions about agency and voice in a cacophonous world. Her knitted work, publications, and photographs have been exhibited at museums, galleries, bicycle shops and malls in America and beyond. She has had solo exhibitions at Aspen Art Museum, Malmö Konsthall, and University of Michigan Museum of Art. Recently self-published books include As you so so you reap, All the Time in the World, and Knotty. Her upcoming projects include a solo exhibition at Bennington College’s Usdan Gallery. She teaches at Pomona College in Claremont, California.

Rabbi Lizzi Heydemann (she/her) is the Head Rabbi & Founder of Mishkan Chicago, an independent, post-denominational spiritual community in the city of Chicago. Outside of Mishkan, she currently sits on the board of T'ruah: the Rabbinic Call for Human Rights and is the first Rabbi to be a part of the Chicago Commons Project, a program run by the University of Chicago School of Divinity that features a cohort of the city's faith leaders in conversation at quarterly retreats. She grew up on the South Side of the city, graduated with Honors in Religious Studies and Philosophy from Stanford University, and was ordained by the Conservative movement's Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies. She is married to Henry Bernstein and is the mother of two children, Judah Lev and Adira Hannah. You can hear more from Rabbi Lizzi on Contact Chai, Mishkan's podcast featuring weekly sermons and inspired, down-to-earth Judaism in conversation.

Love Jerks is a San Francisco future-wave/dream-pop duo that leaves you no choice but to dance, swoon, or both. Fronted by two ambitious singers who made their way in the Bay Area music scene and fell in love with each other in the process: Bryan Garza (Scissor for Lefty) and Rebecca Garza-Bortman (My First Earthquake & Happy Fangs)

Luther Andrews Dickinson is the lead guitarist and vocalist for the North Mississippi Allstars and the son of record producer Jim Dickinson. He is also known for being the lead guitarist for The Black Crowes. He hosts Guitar Xpress on the Video on Demand network Mag Rack.

Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, one of the first women to become a rabbi in Jewish history, is a pioneer Jewish feminist, human rights activist, writer, visual artist, ceremonialist, community educator and master storyteller. Lynn has been a congregational rabbi since the fall of 1973, and founded the Congregation Nahalat Shalom in Albuquerque, NM, in 1980. Lynn engages in multifaith, intergenerational and multicultural organizing in solidarity with racial, indigenous, gender justice and Palestinian liberation struggles. Currently, Lynn serves as Director of Youth and Family Programming at Chochmat Halev and sits on the Rabbinic Council of Jewish Voice for Peace. She is board chair of Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity. Rabbi Lynn is the author of several books, including Peace Primer II, She Who Dwells Within: A Feminist Vision of Renewed Judaism, World Beyond Borders Passover Haggadah and Trail Guide to the Torah of Nonviolence. Rabbi Lynn is a shomeret shalom, a practitioner of the torah of nonviolence. You can find her at rabbilynngottlieb.com.

Lynne Marie Rosenberg is a Brooklyn based artist, performer, writer, and lo-fi stopmotion animator. She is the creator and host of "Famous Cast Words" on the WNET/Thirteen affiliate channel, ALL ARTS; featuring stars of stage and screen, Famous Cast Words blends hilarious readings of language from the casting world with an earnest investigation into what’s wrong, and what’s changing, with the entertainment industry. In her Extremely Short Films, Lynne investigates social justice, representation, compassion, and other topics through the whimsical lens of stopmotion animation. As an actor, Lynne is best known as “Dinah” on HBO’s High Maintenance.

Matt Wolf is a filmmaker in New York. His feature documentaries include WILD COMBINATION about the cult cellist and disco producer Arthur Russell, and TEENAGE about the birth of teenagers. His recent film RECORDER is about the activist Marion Stokes, who secretly recorded television 24 hours a day for 30 years. Matt’s newest film SPACESHIP EARTH is about Biosphere 2, a controversial experiment where 8 people lived quarantined inside a replica of the planet. The film premiered at Sundance, followed by an innovative virtual release with Neon, and is streaming on Hulu.

Maxine Lee Ewaschuk grew up in Toronto and is a graduate of Canada's National Ballet School and trained in contemporary dance in France and Italy. As a fibre artist, her embroidered work focuses on themes of personal and familial history, Judaism, and modern art. Recently, she was commissioned to create original artwork for PRISM: a convening of Jewish artists of colour, by No Silence on Race and FENTSTER, for which she also provided assistance in administration and facilitation. Currently, she is learning Jewish texts in Yeshivat Chovevei Torah and Yeshivat Maharat’s Mind the Gap program for Jewish professionals.

Michael Phillips Moskowitz is the founder and CEO of AeBeZe Labs, a venture-backed behavioral health company delivering the future of Digital Nutrition. Michael is a serial entrepreneur​, recognized by FastCompany as one of the Top-100 Creatives in Business, and by IFAH as one of the Top-100 Leaders in Global Healthcare Innovation. He was formerly the Global Chief Curator at eBay, a role created following the acquisition of his startup, BUREAU OF TRADE.

Michaela Watkins is currently starring opposite Walton Goggins in CBS’s half hour comedy THE UNICORN and in the film Werewolves Within, premiering next month at the Tribeca Film Festival. In addition, she can be seen starring in the hit Hulu show CASUAL. The show has received critical acclaim with a Golden Globe nomination. Most recently Watkins was seen opposite Ben Affleck in the Gavin O'Connor, WB feature THE WAY BACK and starred in Lynn Shelton's final feature SWORD OF TRUST opposite Marc Maron. Watkins hails from the The Los Angeles Groundlings main stage company.

Rabbi Mira Rivera (she/her) is an Associate Rabbi and director of Pastoral Care at Romemu. Rabbi Rivera received ordination at The Jewish Theological Seminary with an M.A. in Jewish Studies. Previous to rabbinical studies, she earned a B.F.A. in Film at New York University Tisch School of the Arts., danced with the Martha Graham Dance Company and Ensemble under Artistic Director Yuriko Kikuchi and studied with ballet master Gabriela Taub Darvash. While at chaplain residency at Mt. Sinai Hospital and DOROT, she came to Romemu for spiritual community. Following a two-year Jewish Emergent Network Rabbinic fellowship, she continues to serve at Romemu as Board Certified Chaplain, social action organizer, and Morning Minyan prayer leader. She is Rabbi and mentor at Ammud: the Jews of Color Torah Academy and a co-chair of the rabbinical council of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ). With Dr. Renee Hill, she co-founded Harlem Havruta, “a brave space for Jews of Color, allies and co-conspirators” in partnership with St. Mary’s Episcopal Church. She is an alumnae of Bend the Arc’s Selah Cohort 15 for Jews of Color and the first cohort of Jewish Women of Color Resilience Circle with Yavilah McCoy. Rabbi Rivera is grateful to Rabbi Mauricio Balter for mentoring her with grace and generosity in the spirit of Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer z”l.

Moshe Kasher has written for several films, series, and specials including Betty for HBO, Little America for Apple, Wet Hot American Summer for Netflix, Another Period, the Comedy Central Roasts for Comedy Central, and ZOOLANDER 2. Last year, Moshe and his wife Natasha Leggero released a three-part comedy special for Netflix, “The Honeymoon Stand-Up Special” – based off of their wildly successful podcast entitled The Endless Honeymoon. He also co-hosted the popular podcast The Champs and is the host of The Hound Tall Discussion Series. Additionally, Moshe can be seen in his 2017 Comedy Central talk show, Problematic with Moshe Kasher. Named one of Variety’s “10 Comics To Watch,” he’s made frequent appearances on This Is Not Happening and Drunk History and has also appeared on the series Not Safe with Nikki Glaser,@midnight with Chris Hardwick, and The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail. Kasher has also had roles on Portlandia, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Good Place, The League, Shameless, Maron, Garfunkel and Oates and The New Normal, Another Period and many more. Earlier in his career, Moshe wrote the 2012 memoir Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16 and had his first Netflix special debut – Moshe Kasher: Live in Oakland.

Natalie Lyla Ginsberg is the Director of Policy & Advocacy at the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), where she works to disentangle science from political partisanship, and to create safe, equitable and regulated access to psychedelics, and all criminalized substances. She is also partnering with Israeli and Palestinian colleagues to develop a psychedelic peace-building study. Natalie is particularly inspired by psychedelics’ potential to assist in healing intergenerational trauma, for building empathy and community, and for inspiring creative and innovative solutions. Before joining MAPS in 2014, Natalie worked as a Policy Fellow at the Drug Policy Alliance, where she helped legalize medical cannabis in her home state of New York, and worked to end New York’s race-based marijuana arrests. Natalie received her B.A. in history from Yale, and her master’s of social work (M.S.W.) from Columbia.

Rabbi Nate DeGroot (he/him) is the Associate Director, Spiritual & Program Director at Hazon Detroit, the Jewish lab for sustainability. In this role, he is helping the metro Detroit Jewish community reconnect with their own earth-based Jewish roots, while reinvesting in their historic relationship with the Detroit community through its transformative, Black and Native-led food and environmental justice work. Rabbi DeGroot also serves as congregational rabbi to Temple Beth Israel in Jackson, MI and as guest rabbi to Congregation Beth Israel in Flint, MI. Rabbi DeGroot was ordained at Hebrew College in Boston in 2016, where he also received a Masters in Jewish Education. Most recently, he served as the inaugural Jewish Emergent Network Rabbinic Fellow at IKAR, a progressive Jewish spiritual community in Los Angeles. Prior to that, DeGroot founded a grassroots cooperative Jewish community in Portland, OR, known as Mikdash. Rabbi DeGroot lives with his wife, Rebecca, and their first child, Savvi, in Detroit and they are excited to be putting down roots in the city.

Nemuna Ceesay (she/her) is an actor/educator based in NY. She has an MFA in acting from A.C.T. and works in theatre and television. She is the founder of a new all BIPOC training program called The Blueprint. Visit her website at www.nemunarceesay.com or www.theblueprintartist.com or Instagram @_nemuna_ and @theblueprintartist

Nicolás Melmann (1981 Argentina) explores the social and poetic aspects of sound in his transdisciplinary projects, experiments with technology and music, creating linear and non-linear narratives. His compositions draw from electroacoustic music, generative music, experiments with sensors, hydrophones, data sonification, sound cartographies & installations.

Active since more than 14 years, with six albums and toured in Asia, Europe, North and South America performing in venues like the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York , Victoria & Albert Museum (London), Potytech Museum (Moscow), SEMA (Seoul Museum of Art), Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, Mutek, Sónar, Gamma Festival (Russia).

Nicole Delaney is a Los Angeles born and raised writer, director and producer with a passion for unique, funny, and socially conscious storytelling in film and television.

Noah Keyishian is a first-year MFA Acting student from Bloomfield, New Jersey. Theater credits: Midsummer Night’s Dream; Prepared (UC San Diego); Are You There? (Humana Festival of New American Plays); Tell the Truth; A Christmas Carol; Dracula; The Brief History of Francois Le Chou Chou (Actors Theatre of Louisville); and Favors (Manhattan Repertory Theater). Film credits: Happy Yummy Chicken; That Thing I Had That One Time; Status-Driven; Sasquatch; Separation Celebration; Wax Lover’s Playlist.

Olivia Guterson is an interdisciplinary artist, born in Gallup, New Mexico and based in Detroit, Michigan. She is deeply influenced by the textures, landscapes, and patterns of her upbringing in the Southwest, as well as her Jewish and African heritage. She works predominantly in black and white for its stability, intensity, and honesty while incorporating ancestral patterns and narratives. Olivia studied at Evergreen State College, Washington State. In 2020, she curated her first exhibition, The Space Between at the Ann Arbor Art Center. She is currently a resident at Sibyls Shrine and AS220’s Practice//Practice. Private and public collections of her works can be found: Detroit Art Collection at the Library Street Collective; Shinola Hotel; ROI in Jerusalem, Israel. Her work has been shown at the Arab American National Museum, Art Week Miami, JADA Art Fair, Norwest Gallery, Detroit Artist Market, Ann Arbor Art Center, and more. For more, please visit midnightolive.com.

Rabbi Rachel Nussbaum (she/her) is the Rabbi and Executive Director of the Kavana Cooperative, which she co-founded in Seattle in 2006. Kavana has received lots of recognition for its innovative approach to building Jewish community, and Rachel’s responsibilities run the gamut… from teaching and dynamic prayer leadership, to re-working the synagogue model for the 21st century. She is one of the founding rabbis of the Jewish Emergent Network, a graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary, and a lover of the outdoorsy, low-key vibe of the Pacific Northwest

Rebecca Garza-Bortman is a designer, singer, and all-around enthusiastic participant. Her design achievements include: being the founding designer of MasterClass and leading YouTube’s first redesign. Her performative achievements include: getting a standing ovation for her sound-check at Stern Grove with her first band, My First Earthquake; playing shows in 2 countries within a 24-hr period with her second band, Happy Fangs; and convincing indie heartthrob Bryan Garza to start a third band with her, Love Jerks. She also convinced him to fall madly in love with her, write a rock-opera wedding, and make charismatic babies.

Rebecca S’manga Frank is an actor, writer, filmmaker, educator, and activist. Most recently she performed in Paula Vogel’s “Indecent” at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and on FOX’s Prodigal Son. She’s worked as a director at New York Theatre Workshop, acted with Sundance Theatre Lab in Morocco, and performed at many regional and off-broadway theaters. In 2020 Rebecca penned a "Psalm for Racial Justice" for Hillel International. She has brought her work to the Jewish Theological Seminary, and many theatrical, academic, and religious institutions. Rebecca is a 2021 LABA NY Fellow and a New Jewish Culture Fellow. NYU Grad Acting, MFA.

Rodney Richardson has recent works including a supporting role in Chris Morris’s feature The Day Shall Come opposite Anna Kendrick that premiered at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival. Other recent work includes a recurring arc on the CBS drama FBI for Dick Wolf, a Guest Lead in the CBS Pilot Evil, and guest leads on Instinct, Elementary, Law & Order: SVU, The Good Wife and a recurring arc on the FX comedy series, Sex, Drugs & Rock & Roll. Richardson has appeared in Second Stage's production of Somebody’s Daughter, the NY Times Critic Pick Squash by A.R Gurney at The Flea Theatre, and a leading role in The Tempest opposite Sam Waterston in Central Park for The Public Theatre. Rodney received his MFA from NYU.

Ronit Muszkatblit was born in Germany and raised in Israel. She is a theater director and the founding member of woken’glaicer theater company and Operatzia as well as a member of posttheater ny/berlin. Ronit curates and directs in various capacities with a focus on opera, theater and multi disciplinary events. Her most recent directing credits include all the LABALive events and the operas “SPHINX” (Culturemart HERE) and “3WEEKS” (MAP grant, 14th Street Y) both by Yoav Gal. Her most recent theater credits include: “Hanna and the Moonlit Dress” by Itzchak D’miel (14th Street Y), “Nature of Captivity” by Mathew Paul Elmos (Mabou Mines Suite @ PS 122), “Cantaloupe” by Gina Bonati (Boston ); “ON ART,” an adaptation of “Art” by Yasmina Reza (Rohkunst Bau, Berlin); “It is said the men are over in the steel tower” by Hideo Tsuchida,(TBG Theater, NYC); Struwwelmensch (Rohkunst Bau Festival, Berlin);) “Matchmaker Matchmaker” (Stadts Bank Berlin); “Quartet” by Heiner Müller (Westbeth Theater, NYC); “The Child Dreams” by Hanoch Levin (Staged Reading 59E59, NYC). Ronit received her MFA in directing from the Actors Studio Drama School and trained at La Mama Umbria (Italy) and with Siti Company.

Ruby Namdar is an Israeli-American author born and raised in Jerusalem to a family of Iranian-Jewish heritage. His latest novel The Ruined House (Kinneret-Zmora-Bitan, 2013) won the Sapir Prize, Israel’s most prestigious literary award. The English edition of The Ruined House (translated by Hillel Halkin) was published in the US by Harper Collins in November 2017. The French edition of the novel (translated by Sarah Tardy) was published in September 2018 by Belfond, and was nominated for the Prix du premier roman étranger 2018. He currently lives in NYC with his wife and two daughters, and teaches Jewish literature, focusing on Biblical and Talmudic narrative.

A New Englander at heart and San Franciscan at present, Sara Faith Alterman is the author of the memoir "Let's Never Talk About This Again," named by TIME as one of the must-read books of 2020. A lifelong theater nerd, she's a senior producer for the acclaimed stage show Mortified, which features adults reading from their really awkward, really real teenage diaries.

Sara's writing has been featured in the New York Times, McSweeney's, the Boston Globe, the Boston Phoenix, and the anthology 'Modern Loss: Candid Conversations About Grief.' She's a proud mom to two thriving sons and 17 dying houseplants.

Rabbi Scott Perlo (he/him) was ordained by the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in 2008, and is pursuing a doctorate in Jewish Thought. He is a veteran of multiple cutting-edge Jewish communities, having served as a rabbi at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, rabbi-in-residence at Moishe House and The Professional Leaders Project, and intern at IKAR in Los Angeles. Scott leads trips for Honeymoon Israel, was a founding member of the Jewish Emergent Network and is a Wexner Field Fellow. A regular writer, Rabbi Perlo has been published in The Washington Post, The Forward and The Huffington Post, among other publications. A California native, he gets back to his beloved Pacific Ocean to surf and to dive whenever he can. He lives in New York with his partner, Yael, a Constitutional Lawyer, and two sons.

Rabbi Sharon Brous is the senior and founding rabbi of IKAR (www.ikar-la.org), which launched in 2004 with the goal of reinvigorating Jewish tradition and practice and inspiring people of faith to reclaim a moral and prophetic voice. IKAR, one of the fastest growing and most influential Jewish congregations in the country, is credited with sparking a rethinking of religious life in a time of unprecedented disaffection and declining affiliation.

Brous’s 2016 TED talk, “Reclaiming Religion,” has been viewed by more than 1.4 million people and translated into 23 languages. In 2013, she blessed President Obama and Vice President Biden at the Inaugural National Prayer Service, and returned in 2021 to bless President Biden and Vice President Harris, and then to lead the White House Passover Seder that spring. She spoke at the Women’s March in Washington, DC in 2017 and at the opening of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice the following year. Brous was named #1 on the Newsweek/The Daily Beast list of the most influential Rabbis in America, and has been recognized by The Forward and the Jerusalem Post as one of the fifty most influential Jews.

Brous, who graduated from Columbia University and was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary, is an Auburn Senior Fellow, sits on the faculty of the Shalom Hartman Institute-North America and REBOOT, and serves on the International Council of the New Israel Fund and the national steering committee for the Poor People’s Campaign.

Shira Kline (she/her) is an internationally acclaimed performance and ritual artist, recognized as a revolutionary educator and named one of the new re-engineers of Jewish life. A co-founder of both Storahtelling and Lab/Shul, Shira’s work as Director of Worship is to ignite expression of spirit and heart through the medium of the musical soul. Shira has toured in communities of all ages throughout North America and stages in Israel, England, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. She presents extensively across the denominational spectrum, specializing in creative worship and early childhood spirituality for clergy, educators and lay leaders. She is on the faculty of Hava NaShira, Song Leader Boot Camp, and has been adjunct faculty for the HUC-JIR’s Rabbinic and Cantorial seminary. Shira is also privileged to work as Lab/Shul’s Director of Family Education. The product of a modern rabbi and a modern dancer, she blends words, story and music to create a rich experience for children and adults alike. Known as ShirLaLa to the under five set, her award winning Jewish kiddie-rock albums along with her parent and teacher resource center, “Blog Sameach,” are played in homes, schools, classrooms, dance parties, and on the way to Grandmothers’ houses, worldwide.

Rabbi Shira Stutman (she/her) is the Senior Rabbi at Sixth & I in Washington, DC. An educator and rabbi with a wealth of experience at synagogues and institutions around the country, Rabbi Shira helps to build community amongst Sixth & I’s various constituencies with her signature educational series and workshops. The Jewish Daily Forward named Rabbi Shira one of America’s 36 “Most Inspiring Rabbis.”

Shoshana Ungerleider, MD is the founder of endwellproject.org, a media platform to transform the end of life experience, a practicing internist at Crossover Health in San Francisco, SF Business Times 40 Under 40, writer and leading voice in healthcare who regularly appears as a medical contributor on CNN, MSNBC, CBS News with bylines in TIME, Scientific American, the San Francisco Chronicle, Vox, STAT and many others. She executive produced two Netflix Oscar-nominated films, Extremis and End Game. Her most recent film, Robin's Wish, is a biographical documentary about the final years of actor and comedian, Robin Williams.

Sonya Sanford is a chef, writer, cooking instructor, and food stylist in Portland, Oregon. Born and raised in Seattle to Soviet Jewish immigrants, Sonya specializes in diasporic modern Jewish food, seasonal and sustainable cooking, as well as Russian Jewish cuisine. Her culinary background includes working as a personal chef in Hollywood, food styling for television and the web, and founding and operating Beetroot Market & Deli. She shares her recipes and food stories online at www.sonyasanford.com and on Instagram @sonyamichellesanford.

Susan McPherson is a serial connector, seasoned communicator and founder and CEO of McPherson Strategies, a communications consultancy focused on the intersection of brands and social impact. She is the author of The Lost Art of Connecting: The Gather, Ask, Do Method for Building Meaningful Relationships. Susan has 25+ years of experience in marketing, public relations, and sustainability communications, speaking regularly at industry conferences, and contributing to the Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Forbes. She has appeared on NPR, CNN, USA Today, The New Yorker, New York Magazine and the Los Angeles Times. Susan is a Vital Voices global corporate ambassador and has received numerous accolades for her voice on social media platforms from Fortune Magazine, Fast Company and Elle Magazine. She resides in Brooklyn.

Born in Tehran to a Jewish family, Tannaz Sassooni is a Los Angeles-based food writer who’s written for Lucky Peach, Thrillist, the Mash-Up Americans, LAist, and Shofar. She’s interested in exploring Los Angeles’ global culinary landscape and interviewing mothers and grandmothers from Iran for a regional Iranian Jewish cookbook. Follow Tannaz on Instagram @tannazsassooni.

Tatiana Wechsler is a New York City based actor, singer, songwriter, and artist who has performed at theaters and venues regionally and on and off-Broadway in New York City, including the Paper Mill Playhouse (Benny & Joon), the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Oklahoma!, Love’s Labor’s Lost), the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (The Golden Bride), The Acting Company (X: Or, Betty Shabazz…, Julius Caesar, Othello), Two River Theatre (Love In Hate Nation), The O’Neill Theater Center, Joe’s Pub, Feinstein’s/54 Below, Yankee Stadium, Birdland, The Beacon Theatre, Madison Square Garden, Town Hall, The Minskoff Theatre, Lincoln Center, The Delacorte Theater, and Radio City Music Hall. She was the first woman to play Curly in Oklahoma! (OSF). Tatiana's Film credits include the short film Netuser. In the past year Tatiana has produced, directed, edited, and performed in several commissioned online concerts. Tatiana is a fierce advocate for equity, justice, joy, and love and is honored to be able to pursue her passions! NYU New Studio Grad. www.tatianawechsler.com @tatiwex

Tedra Millan is a Brooklyn based actor. On Broadway, she played opposite Kevin Kline in PRESENT LAUGHTER. Off Broadway, she originated the role of “#46” in Sarah DeLappe’s THE WOLVES, directed by Lila Neugebauer, for which she and the cast won Drama Desk and Obie Awards, was in Jesse Eisenberg’s HAPPY TALK with The New Group, the New York premiere of Simon Stephens’ ON THE SHORE OF THE WIDE WORLD with the Atlantic Theater Company, and will be appearing at The Geffen next January in a play soon to be announced. On screen, she can be seen in FX’s “Fosse/Verdon,” ABC’s “Almost Family,” CW’s “Katy Keene,” Samuel Goldwyn/Tangerine Entertainment’s “Modern Persuasion,” among others. She is currently making her directorial debut with “We Can Voyage There,” a short film about a mother and daughter and space.

Kohenet Traci Marx (she/they). A songstress, a leader, and a healer, Kohenet Marx passionately co-creates and tends prayer communities. Singing, sharing, being human, she shepherds a return to the heart. Traci serves as the Director of Music and Spirituality for The Kavana Cooperative on Duwamish land (Seattle), where she leads prayer services for Shabbat, High Holidays, and festivals; Hebrew chanting sessions; and spirituality retreats. Ordained as a Kohenet, Hebrew Priestess, Kohenet Marx officiates weddings, memorials, and other life spiral events, utilizing meaningful ritual, heartfelt prayer, and embodied song to elevate as sacred all of life’s experiences. Kohenet Marx earned a PhD in Clinical Psychology, and brings warmth, sensitivity, and attunement to all of her work

The Witch Ones are seven witches of indie rock, bringing you hearts on sleeves with tarot cards on the table. Songwriters Robert Johanson, Gavin Price and Kate Scelsa started collaborating when they found themselves temporarily living in the energetic black hole that was downtown Washington, D.C. in the spring of 2017, longing for some beauty in the face of a country's existential despair. The result is folk campfire meets electronic anthem - throw in sixties pop, nineties angst, and a deep belief in the interconnectedness of all energetic forces in the universe, and you have an idea of what these witches are offering up to the communal table. So mote it be.

Yael Kanarek is an Israeli-American multidisciplinary artist. Her practice develops on the intersection of language, form and technology. In 2013, is founded a fine fine jewelry studio specializing in text. In the past six years, Yael has been working on rewriting the Bible, reversing the genders of all characters to create a women's centered sacred text. This need came in response to the staggering void of canonical text in L’shon Isha. On Simchat Torah 2020, she established Beit Toratah, for the ritual and study of the Regendered Bible.

Yasmin Garfunkel is a Musicology and Arts Education graduate from University of Buenos Aires and holds an Artist Degree in Vocal Performance from Conservatorio Superior de Música Manuel de Falla. She has had the privilege of singing in some of the main stages of Buenos Aires, as well as in Shakespeare Center’s Blackfriars Playhouse, USA. Actually, she is a member of the Performing Arts and Jewishness Research Area at Instituto de Artes del Espectáculo "Dr. Raúl H. Castagnino". FFyL. University of Buenos Aires, where she works on yiddish theatre and music.

Rabbi Zac Kamenetz (he/him) is a community leader, and aspiring psychedelic-assisted therapist based in Berkeley, CA. He holds an MA in Biblical literature and languages from UC Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union and received rabbinic ordination in 2012. A sought-after educator and qualified MBSR instructor, Zac’s work has been centered on seeking answers to life’s essential questions within the Jewish tradition and embodied spiritual practice. As founder and CEO of Shefa and co-founder of the Jewish Psychedelic Summit, Zac is pioneering a movement to integrate safe and supported psychedelic use into the Jewish spiritual tradition, advocate for individuals and communities to heal individual and inherited trauma and inspire a Jewish religious and creative renaissance in the 21st century.

Zackary Drucker is an independent artist, filmmaker, and cultural producer. She has performed and exhibited her work internationally in museums, galleries, and film festivals including the Whitney Biennial 2014, MoMa PS1, Hammer Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario, MCA San Diego, and SF MoMA, among others. Drucker is an Emmy nominated producer for the docuseries This Is Me, and was a producer on the Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning Amazon show Transparent. The Lady and The Dale, her directorial debut for television, premiered on HBO in early 2021.

Zoey Shopmaker (aka Sister Zo) is a DJ, producer, and founding member of the UN/TUCK Collective in Kansas City, Missouri. Her mission in the music industry is to uplift marginalized voices and build strong community ties. Her mixes weave together sounds and rhythms from across the electronic spectrum. Spiritually, she sees music and DJing as vehicles for catharsis and personal/collective liberation.