Sandy Eisenberg Sasso was the first woman to be ordained from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 1974. She and her husband, Dennis C. Sasso were the first practicing rabbinic couple in world Jewish history. In 1976 she became the first rabbi to become a mother after the birth of her first child. Sasso and her husband became the join leaders of Congregation Beth-EL Zedeck in Indianapolis in 1977; she retired from the congregation in 2013. She was the founding director of the Religion, Spirituality, and the Arts Initiative now at Herron School of Art and Design at Indiana University in Indianapolis. In 2016 she co-founded Women4Change Indiana, dedicated to empowering women through advocacy, education, and collaboration. Sasso has written over 27 Jewish children's books and has won Publisher's Weekly's Best Book of the Year Award twice and a National Jewish Book Award.