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A

  • 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

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C

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

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

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

K

  • 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

L

M

  • 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

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R

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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W

  • 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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