Speakers
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- Verjine Adanalian, Equal Justice Works Crime Victims Justice Corps Legal Fellow, Ohio Justice and Policy Center
- Timothy Ahrens, Sr. Minister, First Congregational Church
- Ruth Alpers, BCC, ACPE Supervisor Chaplain III, Pastoral Care ACPE Supervisor, Pastoral Care, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
- Eric Avner, VP, Sr Program Manager - Community Development, Haile/U.S. Bank Foundation
- Talia Avnon-Benveniste, Director, Israel Rabbinic Program, HUC-JIR
B
- Ilana Baden, Temple Chai, Long Grove, IL
- Feliza Bascara-Zohar, Composers & Performers of Jewish Sacred Music, Feliza Bascara-Zohar
- Sarah Bassin, Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills
- Laura Baum, Head of School, Rockwern Academy
- Peter Berg, Senior Rabbi, The Temple: The Hebrew Benevolent Congregation
- Rabbi Andi Berlin, Berlin Consulting, LLC
- Seth Bernstein, Bet Aviv, Columbia, MD
- Timikal Bobo, Reverend of New Prospect Baptist Church, New Prospect Baptist Church
- Karen Bodney-Halasz, Temple Israel, Dayton, OH
- Maria Bruno, Civic Engagement Coordinator & Policy Analyst, Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio
C
- Max Chaiken, Congregation Kol Ami, West Hollywood, CA
- Mark Chopko, Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP, Chair: Nonprofit & Religious Organizations
- Adam Clark, Associate Professor of Theology, Xavier University
- Jonathan Cohen, The Temple-Tifereth Israel, Beachwood, OH
- Jackie Congedo, Director, Cincinnati Jewish Community Relations Council
- Shoshanah Conover, Temple Sholom of Chicago, IL
- Andrea Cosnowsky, Rabbi, Congregation Etz Chayim
- Jeremy Cronig, Student, The Ohio State University
D
- Lucy Dinner, Temple Beth Or, Raleigh, NC
- Larry Dressler, Consultant, Blue Wing Consulting
- Ellen Weinberg Dreyfus, Co-chair of the Task Force on the Experience of Women in the Rabbinate, Past President of the CCAR, Shir Tikvah, Homewood, IL
E
- Bruce Elder, Congregation Hakafa, Glencoe, IL
- Cindy Enger
F
- Marla Feldman, Executive Director, Women of Reform Judaism
- Karen Fox, California Licensed Marriage and Family Psychotherapist, Adjunct faculty in Pastoral Counseling at HUC-JIR LA
- Joan Friedman, Associate Professor, The College of Wooster
- Joy Friedman, Director of Organizing, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
G
- Fran Gafvert, Director, Jewish Family Service Barbash Family Vital Support Center
- Michael Gan, Attorney, Peer, Gan & Gisler LLP
- Kim Geringer, Adjunct instructor in Professional Development, Rabbinic Supervision, HUC-JIR
- David Gilner, Director of Libraries, Emeritus, HUC-JIR
- Keren Gorban, Temple Sinai. Pittsburgh, PA
- Jennifer Grayson, Rabbi Aaron D. Panken Assistant Professor of History, HUC-JIR
- Rachel Greengrass, Temple Beth Am, Pinecrest, FL
H
- Hilly Haber, Fifth Year Rabbinical Student, HUC-JIR
- Jonathan Hecht, Dean, HUC-JIR, Cincinnati
- Miriam Heller Stern, National Director, School of Education, HUC-JIR
- Alan Henkin, Special Consultant/ Placement Director Emeritus, CCAR
- Susannah Heschel, Chair, Jewish Studies Program, Eli Black Professorship of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth University
- Mary Huber, Professor at Wright State and Founder of Conversations for Change, Conversations for Change
J
- Walter Jacob, President, Abraham Geiger College
- Ally Jacobson, Fifth Year Rabbinical Student, HUC-JIR
- Stephen Johnsongrove, Attorney/Deputy Director for Policy, Ohio Justice and Policy Center
- Sam Joseph, Eleanor Sinsheimer Distinguished Service Professor of Jewish Education and Leadership Development HUC-JIR/Cincinnati, HUC-JIR
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- Meredith Kahan, K.K. Bene Israel Rockdale Temple, Cincinnati, OH
- andy kahn, Temple Emanu-el, New York, NY
- Jason Kalman, Professor of Classical Hebrew Literature and Interpretation; Gottschalk-Slade Chair in Jewish Intellectual History, HUC-JIR
- Roberta Kaplan, Civil Rights Lawyer
- Nancy Kasten, Community Educator and Co-Chair, Faith Forward Dallas
- Jan Katzew, HUC-JIR Rabbinical Program Director, Cincinnati, HUC-JIR
- Peter Knobel, Chair, Task Force on Retiree-Successor Relations, Past President of the CCAR, Beth Emet The Free Synagogue, Evanston, Illinois
- Stephanie Kramer, Congregation Shomrei Torah, Santa Rosa, CA
- Lawrence Kushner, Congregation Emanu-El, San Francisco, CA
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- Greg Landsman, Council Member, City of Cincinnati
- Ellen Lewis, Professional Supervision for Clergy
- Seth Limmer, Chicago Sinai Congregation, IL
- Ellen Lippmann, Kolot Chayeinu/Voices of our Lives
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- Fani Magnus Monson, Development Consultant, Fani Magnus Consulting
- Art Markman, Annabel Irion Worsham Centennial Professor of Psychology and Marketing at the University of Texas at Austin and Director of the IC2 (Innovation-Creativity-Capital) Institute, University of Texas
- Sharon Mars, Temple Israel, Columbus,OH
- Ofek Meir, Chairperson, Maram (& CEO of the Leo Baeck Education Center)
- David Meredith, Lead Pastor, Clifton United Methodist Church
- Erica Messer, Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital
- Michael Meyer, Adolph S. Ochs Professor of Jewish History Emeritus, HUC-JIR
- Miranda Meyerson, Head of Outreach and Partnerships for ADL’s Center for Technology and Society, ADL
- Leon Morris, President, Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies
- Joel Mosbacher, Temple Shaaray Tefila, New York, NY
- Mark Mussman, Director of Education, Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition
N
- Pamela Nadell, Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women’s and Gender History, American University
- Sasha Naiman, Attorney/ Deputy Director, Ohio Justice and Policy Center
- Michael Namath, Director of Leadership Development, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
O
- Jim Obergefell, Plaintiff in the Supreme Court Case Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage
- Ranen Omer-Sherman, The JHFE Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies, University of Louisville
- Chen Ben Or Tsfoni, Beit Samueli, Center for Reform and Israeli Judaism, Raanana, Israel
P
- Tyra Patterson, Community Outreach Strategy Specialist, Ohio Justice and Policy Center
- Michelle Pearlman, Beth Chaim Reform Congregation, Malvern, PA
- Rex Perlmeter, Special Advisor to Member Care and Wellness, CCAR
- Hara Person, Chief Executive, CCAR
R
- Debra Robbins, Temple Emanu-El, Dallas TX
- Iris Roley, Activist, Black United Front
- Brigitte Rosenberg, Rabbi, United Hebrew Congregation, St. Louis, MO
S
- Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi, Scholar, Author, Public Speaker, Leadership Consultant
- Marc Saperstein, Professor of Jewish History and Homiletics, Leo Baeck College, London
- Rachel Saphire, Temple Beth Elohim, Wellesley, MA
- Richard Sarason, Director of the Pines School of Graduate Studies, Professor of Rabbinic Literature and Thought, and The Deutsch Family Professor of Rabbinics and Liturgy at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, OH, HUC-JIR
- Abby Schwartz, Director of the Skirball Museum in Cincinnati, HUC-JIR
- Julie Schwartz, Associate dean, CPE Supervisor and Professor of Human Relations, HUC-JIR
- Amy Schwartzman, Temple Rodef Shalom,Falls Church, VA
- Rami Shapiro, Director, One River Foundation
- Jana Sharp, Founder and Principal, Sharp Insight, LLC
- Yvon Shore, Director of Liturgical Arts and Music, HUC-JIR
- Ariana Silverman, Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, Detroit, MI
- Beth Singer, Congregation Emanu-El, San Francisco, CA
- Joseph Skloot, Professor, HUC-JIR
- Tiffany Smith, Attorney/Team Leader, Incarcerated Survivors of Domestic Violence, Ohio Justice and Policy Center
- Alden Solovy, Liturgist, Teacher, Author, To Bend Light
- Amy Spitalnick, Director, Integrity First for America
- Rebekah Stern, Congregation Beth El, Berkeley, CA
- Bryan Stevenson, Founder and Director, Equal Justice Initiative
- Lance Sussman, Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel, Elkins Park, PA
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- Joey Taylor, Director, Bespoken Live
- Miriam Terlinchamp, Rabbi, Temple Sholom
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- Gayle Warm, Executive Committee, Isaac M. Wise Temple
- Mark Washofsky, HUC Professor, Chair of Freehof Institute, HUC-JIR
- Josh Weinberg, Executive Director of ARZA, URJ / ARZA
- Andrea Weiss, Provost, HUC-JIR
- Sarah Weiss, Executive Director, The Holocaust and Humanity Center
- Julia Weisz, Or Ami, Calabasas, CA
- Josh Whinston, Temple Beth Emeth, Ann Arbor, MI
- Vanessa White, Chief of Staff, Council Member Greg Landsman
- Nancy Wiener, Director, Blaustein Center for Pastoral Counseling and Dr. Paul and Trudy Steinberg Chair in Human Relations, HUC-JIR
- Steven Windmueller, Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk Emeritus Professor of Jewish Communal Service, HUC-JIR
- Brad Wise, Executive Director, Rebel Pilgrim Productions, LLC
- Ryan Wynett, Learning Lab Specialist, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
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- Matthew Youkilis, Student Activitist, Senior, Walnut Hills High School
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- Melissa Zalkin Stollman, Major Gifts Officer, FL, Union for Reform Judaism
- Mary Zamore, Executive Director, Women's Rabbinic Network
- Or Zohar, Rabbi, IMPJ , Misgav Regional Council
- Gary Zola, Executive Director, The Jacob Rader Marcus Center