Elianna Yolkut was born Orthodox and is now an openly gay Conservative rabbi. Yolkut was ordained in 2006 by the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, where she later served as an adjunct faculty member while serving as Assistant Rabbi at Adat Ari El in nearby Valley Village.

Elyse Winick has worked to engage a diverse Jewish community throughout her career. Winick is currently the Senior Director, Learning and Education at Combined Jewish Philanthropies and a member of the faculty of M²: The Institute for Experiential Jewish Learning.

Deborah Waxman is the first woman and the first lesbian to simultaneously lead both a seminary and a congregational organization as head of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC) and Reconstructing Judaism, the central organization of the Reconstructionist movement. 

Rebecca Sirbu brings her passion for organizing for change to the Jewish world. She is the founder of RabbiCareers.com, the first open source job site for rabbis. Committed to fighting for gender equity, she co-founded the Gender Equity in Hiring Project in the Jewish community. As of this writing, she serves as the Director of the Division of Member and Unit Services at Hadassah, reinvigorating the largest Jewish women’s organization in the US. Previously, she was the Director of Rabbis Without Borders at CLAL: The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. The Forward named her one of the “Most Inspirational Rabbis in America.”

Joanna Samuels fights for immigrant rights at the Jewish community center that she founded. After her ordination by the Jewish Theological Seminary, where she was a Wexner Graduate Fellow, Samuels served as rabbi at Congregation Habonim in New York City.

Since her ordination in 2007 by the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary, Rabbi Chaya Rowen Baker has served as the rabbi of Kehillat Ramot-Zion in French Hill, Jerusalem. After her army service, she was head of MAROM, the Masorti student and young adult organization. 

Barbara Penzner brings her passion for social justice wherever she goes, inspiring her congregations and those around her. After her ordination by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Penzner began to serve as rabbi of Temple Hillel B’nai Torah in West Roxbury, Massachusetts.

A seventh-generation rabbi, Debra Orenstein is a member of the first class to ordain women as rabbis at The Jewish Theological Seminary and worked her way through school as an actress. After her ordination, Orenstein lectured at the American Jewish University and at other universities and synagogues.

Michelle Missaghieh actively works to integrate her interests in conversion, aging, and intergenerational conversation with the needs of her community.

Janet Marder became the first woman to lead a major rabbinical organization and the first woman to lead any major Jewish co-ed religious organization in the United States.