Sandy Eisenberg Sasso was the first woman rabbi ordained by the Reconstructionist movement, one of many firsts in her career. Sasso married fellow rabbinical student Dennis Sasso before graduating from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia in 1974, making her the first Reconstructionist woman rabbi and half of the first rabbinic couple. In 1976 she became the first rabbi to become a mother after the birth of her first child, David. Sasso served as rabbi of the Manhattan Reconstructionist Congregation before she and her husband became the joint leaders of Congregation Beth-El Zedeck in Indianapolis in 1977. She retired from the congregation in 2013. A prolific writer, Sasso has written over 27 Jewish children’s books, winning Publisher’s Weekly’s Best Book of the Year Award for But God Remembered: Stories of Women from Creation to the Promised Land and A Prayer for the Earth in 1995 and 1996 respectively. The Shema in the Mezuzah won a National Jewish Book Award in 2012. She has written resources for parents and a book on midrash and co-edited Jewish Stories of Love and Marriage. She was featured in the 2005 documentary And The Gates Opened: Women in the Rabbinate. Sasso 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 also co-founded Women4Change Indiana, dedicated to empowering women through advocacy, education, and collaboration. She works with her cohort of fellow first women rabbis from the Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox movements, speaking about their experiences.