Susan D. Goodman’s career reflects her interest in social justice. She has worked extensively in the elder care arena to develop services to enable older people to live independently and with dignity. She is proud to have recently served as project manager for Long Road to Justice: The African American Experience in the Massachusetts Courts, a permanent installation sponsored by Northeastern University’s Ruffin Society that is located at the Edward Brooke Courthouse in Boston. Her blog, Acting Our Age: Women’s Lives at 85+, challenges the stereotypes of old age by sharing the life stories and perspectives of amazing, unrecognized women. Her column, Grace, Grit & Humor, appears monthly in The Jewish Advocate. She holds an EdM from the Harvard Graduate School of Education with a concentration in administration and social policy and a BA in Urban Studies from Washington University in St. Louis, MO.

Catherine Bell is the Managing Director of National Programs at Hazon. She oversees the organization's programs for developing leadership and building the field of Jewish Outdoor, Food, Farming, and Environmental Education (JOFEE). She manages the incredible team that leads Hazon’s work with rabbis, the JOFEE Fellowship and JOFEE Network Gathering, the Hazon Seal of Sustainability, and Hazon’s work in Detroit. She brings to this role two decades of experience organizing, educating, and driving programmatic growth in a Jewish social justice context. Prior to joining Hazon, she was the Chief Program Officer at Keshet, and before that served as the Director of the Jewish Organizing Fellowship at JOIN for Justice. Catherine holds a BA from Amherst College and an MA in Sociology of Education from New York University. She lives in Dorchester, MA with her spouse and two young children.

Placing girls and women front and center in the Jewish conversation is a sacred calling for Rabbi Lieberman, whose work forging alliances and sparking innovation within the American Jewish community is centered in literature, rabbinics, and non-profit organizational leadership. She is the literary editor and one of the revising translators of The JPS Tanakh: Gender-Sensitive Edition. Please visit her website at www.rabbibethlieberman.com.

Julia Métraux is a health and culture writer whose work has appeared in Narratively, Verywell, Bitch Media, Business Insider, Poynter, and others. You can follow her on Twitter at @metraux_julia and read more of her work at https://juliasmetraux.journoportfolio.com/. 

Rachel Zucker is the author of ten books, including, most recently, SoundMachine (Wave Books, 2019). A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell Colony and the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Zucker is an adjunct professor at New York University and the founder and host of the podcast Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People). Zucker is currently working on an immersive audio project (also called SoundMachine) and a book of lectures called The Poetics of Wrongness. For more information visit www.rachelzucker.net.

Emily-Rose Baker, PhD, is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Film with the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, where she teaches on representations of genocide and human rights violations. She enjoyed working on JWA's Archiving #MeToo project during her oral history internship in 2019, which inspired her to consider the gendered dynamics of her research. You can find her on Twitter at @emily_baker18.'

Babette is an international writer whose work has appeared in publications such as Womanly Magazine and Elephant Journal. She was a newspaper journalist in Amsterdam before moving to the Bay Area.

Betsy More is JWA's Director of Programs. She earned her Ph.D. in history in 2012 from Harvard University, where her research focused on the history of work and motherhood in the United States. She has taught widely in American history, American studies, and women's and gender studies.  She is a recipient of fellowships including the Mellon/ACLS Early Career Research Fellowship and the Women and Public Policy Fellowship from the Harvard Kennedy School. Most recently, she served as the Director of Open Circle Jewish Learning at Hebrew College. She lives in Belmont, MA with her husband and daughter.

Karen Kashian works as Staff Accountant at JWA. She's very passionate about social action and feminism; JWA’s feminist perspective is what first captured Karen’s interest in the organization, and she has enjoyed her part-time work here since 2005. She has worked in nonprofit accounting for over twenty-three years. In addition to the financial health of any nonprofit organization, it is the mission statement that makes her work exciting and worthwhile. Prior to her work with nonprofits, she spent ten years working at a CPA firm in Boston with the firm’s small business clients. This was a time when businesses were beginning to computerize their accounting functions, and she enjoyed implementing new systems and training the client’s bookkeeping and administrative staff. In her spare time, Karen is a singer in a local choir, a dancer, and an avid reader.

Maddie Solomon is a sophomore politics major at Occidental College from Denver, CO. Her work has been published in The Denver Post, The Jewish Journal, Women Media's Center, The Algemeiner, jGirls Magazine, and in other publications. She is on the editorial board of Women’s Media Center’s Fbomb section.

Jennifer Greenberg is a writer and music journalist based in New York. She recently returned from a three-year stay in Tel Aviv, where she worked as the editor of Time Out Israel and Atmosphere Magazine (EL-AL). She has written for Jewish publications like The Jerusalem Post, CJN, and Alma. Follow her on Twitter at @jm_greenberg or visit her website, jennifergreenbergwrites.com.