Melissa R. Klapper is Professor of History and Director of Women's & Gender Studies at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ, and a member of the Jewish Women's Archive Academic Advisory Council. She is the author of Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860-1920 (NYU, 2005); Small Strangers: The Experiences of Immigrant Children in the United States, 1880-1925 (Ivan R. Dee, 2007); and Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women's Activism, 1890-1940 (NYU, 2013), which won the National Jewish Book Award in Women's Studies. Her latest book is Ballet Class: An American History (Oxford, 2020).

Lesléa Newman is the author of 65 books for readers of all ages, including A Letter to Harvey Milk, Nobody's Mother, Hachiko Waits, Write from the Heart, The Boy Who Cried Fabulous, The Best Cat in the World, and Heather Has Two Mommies. A past poet laureate of Northampton, MA, she teaches at Spalding University's low-residency MFA in Writing program. Her newest poetry collection I Carry My Mother has just been published by Headmistress Press.

Pamela Rothstein serves as Director of Lifelong Learning at the Falmouth Jewish Congregation in Falmouth, MA. After leaving academia and moving to Falmouth in 1994, Ms. Rothstein first became involved in Jewish learning as a member of the Religious School Committee before accepting the invitation to serve as Religious School Director. Since that time she has expanded learning opportunities for members of all ages. It is Ms. Rothstein’s view that Jewish learning has the potential to transform one’s Jewish identity and engagement, deepening both the individual’s and collective’s relationship with Jewish tradition.