Etta King Heisler weaves her passions for teaching, community building, and justice activism together in her role as Camp and Public Programs Director at the Leslie Science and Nature Center in Ann Arbor, MI. Etta earned a B.A. in Education Studies from Brandeis University and studied community development in the Washington Semester Program at American University. She also completed a year-long fellowship in community organizing at JOIN for Justice in Boston, MA and holds a Certificate in Management from the Institute for Nonprofit Management and Leadership, also in Boston. Before moving to Michigan, Etta served as the Education Program Manager at the Jewish Women's Archive and taught early childhood and Jewish education in the Greater Boston Area. Etta enjoys drinking coffee, cooking, singing folk music, going to the movies, and playing competitive board games.

George Kelley was a participant in JWA's 2011 Summer Institute for Educators. The Education Director at Congregation Beth-El Zedeck in Indianapolis as well as a storyteller and speaker, he does a great deal of work in the interfaith community looking for ways for people to share community without having to give up their differences.

Gloria Feldt is a leading expert and an expert leader in women's rights, health, media, and politics from where the personal meets the political. A former teen mom who became leader of the world's largest reproductive health care provider and advocacy organization, she was dubbed "the voice of experience" by People Magazine. She and her husband, Alex Barbanell, have a combined family of six children, nine grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. They live in New York and Arizona.

Elyssa Cohen is a rabbinical student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She is currently working and living in Pennsylvania and writing at tacklingtorah.blogspot.org. Elyssa has worked as the programming assistant at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in New York City for the past two years. Prior to that, she served as a community organizer for Keshet in Boston (through the Jewish Organizing Initiative Fellowship program). She has taught children and adults in various Jewish community settings; she served as a youth educator at Temple Sinai in Brookline, MA, and Temple Emmanuel in Newtown, MA.