Speakers
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Eric Abbott
Senior Jewish Educator, Johns Hopkins Hillel
Mona Alfi
Congregation B'nai Israel
Megan Anderson
Director, Guest Engagement, National Aquarium
Erica Asch
Rabbi, Rabbi
Nicole Auerbach
Director of Congregational Engagement, Central Synagogue
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Chen Ben-Or Tsfoni
Rabbi, Nigun HaLev
Mr Curtis Bennett III
Director of Equity & Community Engagement, National Aquarium
Alexis Berk
Rabbi, Temple Solel
Dr. James Bleiberg
Licensed Psychologist, Private Practice in Clinical Psychology
Barry Block
Rabbi, Congregation B'nai Israel
Karen Bodney-Halasz
Temple Israel, Dayton, OH
Michelle Boorstein
Journalist , The Washington Post
Kaitlin Brennan
Program Director, Leveling the Playing Field
Charles Briskin
Rabbi, Shir Ami Bucks County Congregation
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Kenneth Chasen
Senior Rabbi, Leo Baeck Temple
Sean Closkey
President, ReBuild Metro
Andrea Cosnowsky
Rabbi, Congregation Etz Chayim
Kim Crout
Program Manager, Maryland Book Bank
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Larry Dressler
Consultant, Blue Wing Consulting
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Rabbi Denise Eger
Rabbi, Congregation Kol Ami
David Ellenson
Chancellor Emeritus, HUC-JIR
Shira Koch Epstein
Executive Director, Yavneh Bet: The Center for Applied Rabbinic Innovation at Hillel’s Office of Innovation
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Dr. Fatimah Fanusie
Justice Leaders Fellowship Director , ICJS: Institute for Islamic • Christian • Jewish Studies
Lou Feldstein
Founder & CEO, DynamicChange Solutions
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Michael Gan
Attorney, Peer, Gan & Gisler LLP
Laura Geller
Rabbi Emerita, Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills
Gili Getz
Israeli-American photojournalist, actor, and activist, Self-Empolyed
Karenna Gore
Founder and Director, Center for Earth Ethics
Lisa Grant
Rabbinical Program Director, HUC-JIR
Katherine Gravante
Coordinator, Bedtime in a Box
Dr. Alyssa Gray
Emily S. and Rabbi Bernard H. Mehlman Chair in Rabbinics, HUC-JIR
Jessica Greenbaum
Writer and Educator, Ms.
Fred Greene
Senior Rabbi, Congregation Har Hashem
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Martha Hausman
Lawyer and Mediator, MH Negotiation
Yocheved Heiligman
Community Rabbi
Alan Henkin
Special Consultant/ Placement Director Emeritus, CCAR
Diana L. Ho
President, Management Arts, Inc.
Michael Holzman
Rabbi, Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation
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Dana Johnson
Managing Director, Reinvestment Fund
Pat Shannon Jones
Executive Director, Immigrant Outreach Service Center
Robert Jones
CEO and Founder, Public Religion Research Institute
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Andrue Kahn
Rabbi, Temple Emanu-el
Karyn Kedar
Rabbi, Congregation BJBE
Pastor Calvin Keene
Pastor, Memorial Baptist Church
Ibram X. Kendi
Founding Director, Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University
Dove Kent
Senior Strategy Officer, Bend the Arc
Paul Kipnes RJE
Rabbi, Congregation Or Ami
Kevin Kleinman
Associate Rabbi, Director of Education , Main Line Reform Temple
Myriam Klotz
Director of Spiritual Direction Programming HUC-JIR in New York and Faculty at Institute for Jewish Spirituality, HUC-JIR and Institute for Jewish Spirituality
Asher Knight
Senior Rabbi, Temple Beth El, Charlotte, NC
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Ellen Lewis
Professional Supervision for Clergy
Seth Limmer
Chicago Sinai Congregation, IL
Mr. J Little
Educator / Speaker, Baltimore Racial Justice Action
Alex Long Jr
Founder and President, Team Redemption Boxing Gym
Michele Lowe
Playwright, Writing and Presentation Coach, Eleven One Productions
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Fani Magnus Monson
Development Consultant, Fani Magnus Consulting
Michael Marmur
Associate Professor of Jewish Theology, HUC-JIR
Heather Miller Rubens Ph.D.
Executive Director & Roman Catholic Scholar, Institute for Islamic, Christian & Jewish Studies
Binyamin Minich
Rabbi, Shirat HaYam Carmel
Rev. Joe Muth
Pastor, St. Matthew
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Pamela Nadell
Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women’s and Gender History, American University
Lindsey Newman
Director of Community Engagement, Be'chol Lashon
Nancy Northup
President & CEO , Center for Reproductive Rights
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Dr. Drew Pate
Beacon Health Options
Rex Perlmeter
Special Advisor to Member Care and Wellness, CCAR
Sonja Pilz
Editor, CCAR Press, CCAR Press
Joan Plisko
President, Sustaibility Soultions & Director of Sustaibility Perlstone
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Ross Rinehart
Operations Associate, Break a Difference
Charles Robinson III
Political Reporter , Maryland Public Television
Jennie Rosenn
CEO , Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action
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Elissa Sachs-Kohen
Rabbi, Baltimore Hebrew Congregation
Noa Sattath
Director, Israel Religious Action Center
Dr. Benjamin Sax
ICJS Jewish Scholar, Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies
Julie Saxe-Taller
Senior Organizer, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism/Reform CA
Amy Scheinerman
Rabbi, Jewish Federation of Howard County
Judy Schindler
Sklut Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Stan Greenspon Center for Peace and Social Justice, Queens University of Charlotte
Amy Schwartzman
Temple Rodef Shalom,Falls Church, VA
Susan Sherman Ph.D.
Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Joseph Skloot
Professor, HUC-JIR
David Spinrad
Senior Rabbi
Elsie Stern
Vice President for Academic Affairs, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Shira Stern
Rabbinic Associate, Temple Rodeph Torah
Brian Stoller
Rabbi, Temple Israel of Omaha
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Alan Tauber
Lawyer, Defender Association of Philadelphia
Dr. Matthew Taylor Ph.D.
ICJS Protestant Scholar, Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies
Rachel Timoner
Senior Rabbi, New York
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Barri Waltcher
Placement and Employment Services Specialist, CCAR
Mark Washofsky
HUC Professor, Chair of Freehof Institute, HUC-JIR
Pamela Wax
Spiritual Care Coordinator, Westchester Jewish Community Services
Kevin Webb
Co-Founder and Senior Educator, Calico Hill Collective
Greg Weisman
Rabbi, Temple Beth El of Boca Raton
Andrea Weiss
Provost, HUC-JIR
Eric Weiss
CEO/President , Bay Area Jewish Healing Center
David Widzer
Rabbi, Kol Dorot: A Reform Jewish Community
Mr. Terrell Williams
Co-Director, Turnaround Tuesday
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Julie Zauzmer
Journalist , The Washington Post
David Zinner
Executive Director, Kavod v'Nichum
Or Zohar
Rabbi, IMPJ , Misgav Regional Council