Idit Klein is a national leader for social justice with more than 25 years of experience in the non-profit sector.

Since 2001, she has served as the leader of Keshet, the national organization for LGBTQ equality in

Jewish life. Klein built Keshet from a local organization with an annual budget of $42,000 to a national

organization with a five million dollar budget and offices in six states. Under her leadership, Keshet has

supported tens of thousands of rabbis, educators, and other Jewish leaders to make LGBTQ equality a

communal value and moral imperative. She also spearheaded the creation of leadership development

programs for queer Jewish teens and mobilized Jewish communities nationwide to join the fight for

LGBTQ rights. Prior to leading Keshet, Klein was a leader in the LGBTQ community in Israel and helped envision the Jerusalem Open House. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale University, she earned her Master’s in Education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a focus on social justice education. Klein publishes frequently in the Jewish and LGBTQ press and has been honored by Jewish Women International, the Jewish Women’s Archive, Mayyim Hayyim, Brandeis University’s Hornstein Program in Jewish Professional Leadership, and the Forward as one of its "Forward 50," a list of American Jews who have made enduring contributions to public life.

Dr. Nurit Cohen-Levinovsky is the Director of the Educational Department of the Yitzhak Rabin Center in Tel Aviv.

Richard Landes received his BA from Harvard University and his MA and PhD in History from Princeton University. He has written on medieval European history, millennialism and millennial movements, and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, among other topics.

Grace Kessler Overbeke received her BA from Wesleyan University and her MA and PhD from Northwestern University and served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Duke University. She is now an Assistant Professor at Columbia College Chicago, where she works primarily within the Comedy Writing & Performance Major.

Lisa Trank is a Colorado-based writer of Jewish children’s literature, as well as articles on Jewish life, parenting, wellness, and health.

Lisa Fishbayn Joffe is the Director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute at Brandeis University and of the HBI Research Project on Gender, Culture, Religion and the Law. Her scholarship focuses on gender and multiculturalism in family law and on the intersection between secular and religious law.

Idit Shafran Gittleman is the director of the Military and Society Program at the Israel Democracy Institute. Her areas of expertise are Moral Philosophy; political philosophy; ethics; law in war; and Military and Society. She served as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Minerva Centre for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions and as a postdoctoral fellow with the ERC-funded Global Trust Project at Tel Aviv University. Idit holds a BA and MA in Philosophy, a BA in Music, and a PhD in Law. She is currently an adjunct professor at IDC Herzliya. 

Sarah B. Rowley is an assistant professor of history at DePauw University, where she teaches recent U.S. women’s, gender, and sexuality history. She is working on a book about congresswomen, gender, and political culture in the 1970s.

Julie R. Enszer, PhD, is the author of four poetry collections, including Lilith’s Demons, and the editor of The Complete Works of Pat Parker, Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989, and Milk & Honey: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry. Enszer edits and publishes Sinister Wisdom, a multicultural lesbian literary and art journal. More at www.JulieREnszer.com.

Jillian M. Hinderliter is a historian of the twentieth-century United States, modern Jewish history, and women’s health. She defended her dissertation “Patients’ Rights, Patients’ Politics: Jewish Activists of the U.S. Women’s Health Movement, 1969-1990,” at the University of South Carolina in May 2021. Her research on Jewish women and feminist health activism has been published in the journal American Jewish History and she has also written on her work in Jewish Women Amplified and Studying the South, the blog of the Southern Studies Program at College of Charleston.

Douglas Rosenberg is a Professor of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the Founding Director of the Conney Project on Jewish Arts and an artist whose work in Screendance has been exhibited internationally. Additionally, he is the author of Screendance: Inscribing the Ephemeral Image and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies, both published by Oxford University Press.

Kathi Wolfe is a writer and poet. Her poetry has appeared in Poetry Magazine and other publications. She writes frequently on disability and LGBTQ issues. Wolfe is a contributor to the Washington Blade (www.washingtonblade.com), an LGBTQ paper.

Sandra Chiritescu is a PhD Candidate in Yiddish Studies at Columbia University. She is writing a dissertation on feminist literature in Yiddish and English in the late twentieth century. She is pedagogy editor at In geveb: A Journal for Yiddish Studies.

Sophie Duvernoy is a PhD candidate in German Literature at Yale University, where she focuses on the literature and aesthetic theory of the Weimar Republic.

Dara E. Goldman is a professor of Spanish at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), specializing in contemporary Latin American and Caribbean literatures and cultures. Her research and teaching focus on transnational cultures, gender, sexuality, and Jewish identity in the literature, films, music, art, and other expressive forms in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and U.S. Caribbean communities. She is the director of the Program in Jewish Culture & Society at UIUC.