Kohenet Shoshana A Brown, LMSW (they/she) is a healer, educator, and organizer. They are the Director of Pedagogy and Training for the Diaspora Alliance. As an abolition organizer they are a cofounder of the Black Jewish Liberation Collective and a member of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice where they host Beyond The Pale, a radio show on WBAI 99.5FM. Shoshana has expertise in education, somatic healing, union organizing, and Restorative Justice Practices. They are a Black- mixed race Jewish femme who generates liberation and full self-hood in the essence of love.

Eduardo “Eddie” Chavez Calderon is a dedicated advocate for social justice, community empowerment, and collective liberation. He currently serves on the national team at the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), where he has worked for more than a year advancing field engagement, leadership development, and reproductive justice organizing across the country.With over five years of transformative leadership experience at Uri L’Tzedek and Arizona Jews for Justice, Eddie is a seasoned professional organizer, public speaker, and Jewish educator who brings heart, strategy, and storytelling together to drive meaningful change. He is a passionate champion for migrant rights and has supported tens of thousands of asylum seekers through direct service, coalition building, and community mobilization.Eddie is known for cultivating leadership in others, building bridges across communities, and helping organizations grow their impact through fundraising, grant development, and relationship based engagement. Grounded in Jewish ethics and guided by joy and empathy, he approaches his work with a deep commitment to dignity, justice, and people-powered movements. Whether facilitating trainings, speaking on national stages, or supporting grassroots leaders, Eddie Chavez Calderon serves as a catalyst for positive transformation.

Sarah (she/her) is the Senior Development Manager at the Jewish Social Justice Roundtable. Previously, she was the deputy director of Carolina Jews for Justice and still serves them as their Strategy Consultant. She believes that honest dialogue, powerful connections, and institutional commitments to justice will change the world. Of Moroccan heritage, she works within Jewish communities to create Jewish institutions that are truly reflective of our community's diversity. She has a BA in Political Science, BA in Hebrew Letters, MA in Jewish Education, and MBA in Nonprofit Management. In addition to formal education, Sarah was an Avodah Institute for Social Change fellow and trained in Resetting the Table facilitation. While forever a Californian, Sarah currently resides on Occoneechee land (Chapel Hill, NC) with her family.

Hi! I’m Emilia Diamant—a teen educator, social worker, reluctant organizer, proud Bostonian, dog mom and Beyhive member. For almost 20 years, I’ve taught on power and justice, whiteness, pop culture, feminism, and the arts across the U.S. and abroad. I earned a degree in Informal Urban Education from NYU and a Master’s in Social Work from UNC-Chapel Hill. ​As Chief Program Officer at Avodah, I oversee programs empowering Jewish leaders to drive meaningful change. I’ve taught in Boston, New York, North Carolina, Costa Rica, Italy, Israel, and Ukraine, working with learners of all ages, from pre-K to adults. I’m especially passionate about engaging people in exploring their racial, ethnic, and religious identities and turning that exploration into action.​ I’m also proud to be a first-generation member of Tzedek Lab, a network working to mobilize the Jewish community against racism, antisemitism, and white supremacy, and I currently serve as the Vice President of the board at Boston Workers Circle.​ Through Dimensions Educational Consulting, I directed projects that empowered white women+ to lead on racial equity and foster meaningful, cross-racial relationships centered on the experiences of Black women.​ Based in Boston on the sovereign land of the Pawtucket and Massachusett people, I’m a student of critical race theory and emergent strategy, striving to follow the leadership of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and leaders of color. I’m a white woman of Iranian and Ashkenazi Jewish descent, and my family includes Holocaust survivors and fierce political resisters.

Eric Greene is a Los Angeles-based writer and civil rights activist. Currently serving as Associate Director for Diversity and Campus Climate in UCLA’s Strategic Communications Department, he has worked on racial equity, religious liberty and economic justice advocacy, ballot initiatives and community coalitions as Senior Policy Advisor at the ACLU of Southern California and Southern California Director of Progressive Jewish Alliance/Bend the Arc. A long-time organizer in national and local Jews of Color communities, Eric has worked as a diversity consultant within the Jewish community and authored 2020's Kaddish for Black Lives. He has also written or contributed to over half a dozen books on race, politics and the arts. A former CORO Public Affairs fellow in New York, Eric studied religion at Wesleyan University and got his JD at Stanford Law School, where he served as vice president of the Black Law Students Association and was a co-founder of the West Coast Conference on Progressive Lawyering.

Adam Horowitz is an artist, facilitator, and organizer, dedicated to sparking possibility, building beloved community, and creating conditions for spiritual and cultural renewal, in service of life. He's a co-founder of the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture, Nuns & Nones, and Taproot—and works locally and globally at the intersection of spirituality, culture, and social transformation. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Colombia, Artist in Residence with the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, and a Fellow with the Intercultural Leadership Institute and Roddenberry Foundation. Adam lives in a House of Song and Hospitality on unceded Tiwa Territory in Albuquerque, New Mexico—and is currently in cahoots with Beloved, Shomeret Shalom, Beautiful Trouble, and Commonweal, among others. More at adamhorowitz.org.

Cynthia G. Katz is the Managing Attorney in the New York Office at HIAS, where the Legal Team primarily represents asylum seekers fleeing persecution, survivors of violent crimes, and individuals seeking humanitarian protection and other forms of relief from removal/deportation from the United States. She previously served as an asylum officer at U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services, where she interviewed people seeking protection from persecution and adjudicated their asylum claims. Before entering government service, she created, built, and ran an immigration law firm for 19 years. A longtime member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), she is a recipient of its “Advocate of the Year” award. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of JOIN for Justice and a member of the 2025-26 Cohort of the Jews of Color Organizing Fellowship. She is a former member of the Board of Directors of The Center for Multicultural Human Services, a Northern Virginia based non-profit organization that offered holistic mental health, legal, and social services to the greater Washington DC immigrant community. She is a graduate of Duke University School of Law (J.D. /LL.M programs) and Barnard College of Columbia University. She is a member of the Bars of Maryland and the District of Columbia.

Susan Lubeck directs the Collaborative for Jewish Organizing. Formerly, Susan was Bend the Arc’s National Field Director and prior to that the Bend the Arc Bay Area Regional Director. Passions include advancing racial and economic justice, community organizing, Jewish community and wisdom, being in the outdoors, and supporting children and youth. Susan, the granddaughter of garment workers, was born in NYC, raised in South Jersey, and has been living for most of her adult life in the SF Bay Area.

Sasha Raskin-Yin (she/her) is T'ruah's Deputy CEO and a lifelong learner, community builder, and nonprofit leader. She has supported hundreds of Jewish organizers, donors, and professionals at Avodah, the Jewish Social Justice Roundtable, and as the Executive Director at Amplifier to create change. Sasha has designed learning, launched and directed programs, overseen diversity equity and inclusion, led strategic planning, and managed diverse stakeholder needs. Sasha is committed to shared humanity, being real about what's challenging, and building toward a better future for the sake of thriving, not just surviving, Jews included, for the long haul. Sasha is an alumna of M2’s Senior Educators Cohort, Avodah’s Justice Fellowship, and JFREJ's Grace Paley Organizing Fellowship. She has an MA in Anthropology and loves a good conversation over tea.

Violeta Stolpen (she/ella) serves as Jewtina y Co.'s Director of Operations-NYC. Violeta oversees the organization’s day-to-day operations, ensuring cohesive implementation of strategic goals, and is the lead programmer for the New York City Jewtina hub. She loves engaging others in her family and community's diverse, multicultural customs and celebrations. Dedicated to community and economic development, she has served in the nonprofit and for-profit spaces helping historically marginalized individuals and entrepreneurs access affordable capital and supportive services. Violeta is a current fellow of JOIN’s Jews of Color Organizing Fellowship. She serves as Board Chair of Tiyuv and Board Member for Jewish Family Services of Delaware. Violeta holds a Masters in Business Administration from New York University’s Stern School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts from Bucknell University. Violeta enjoys spending weekends introducing her two kids to museums and playgrounds around the city.

Marcella White Campbell is the author of Maya's Journey: A Story of Two Great-Grandmothers, and a writer whose work sits at the intersection of Black and Jewish experience in America. She designs and facilitates writing workshops that use the Jewish Studio Process and Mussar to help Jewish women of color enter into relationship with their anger as information, as energy, and as raw material for creative work. She founded and directed the Pomegranate Writing Fellowship for Jewish women writers of color at the Jewish Women's Archive, and served as Executive Director of Be'chol Lashon, a nonprofit dedicated to the racial and ethnic diversity of the Jewish people. Her award-winning essays have appeared in Lilith, Kveller, and The Forward. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Tikvah (Nadia) Womack is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and an Expressive Arts Therapist, specializing in trauma and cultural sensitivity. Utilizing arts and with a 20-year span of experience in the mental health field her clinical experience expands over mental health clinical and community setting sranging in modalities and population. She develops, facilitates, and consults groups across the developmental spectrum, professional trainings, and community and affinity conversations. During Tikvah’s graduate studies at Lesley University in Expressive Arts Therapy with a specialization inClinical Mental Health Counseling, she traveled to South Africa and Guatemala exploring the intersections of music and visual art, cultural identity, and trauma. Tikvah’s thesis entitled A Generational Perspective on the Effects of Community Violence on Mothers of the Africana Diaspora and the Curative Benefits of Soulful Expressive Arts paved a particular focus on community healing withBlack women.Tikvah is a Clinical Manager at Jewish Community Services in Baltimore, Maryland. Founder and owner of Soulful Expressive Arts Therapy & Consultation Services, LLC. Tikvah and her family are deeply involved and rooted in their local community. She is a part of a vibrant Jewish community and a diverse and growing modern orthodox synagogue board member. She is also an active member of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Incorporated. She also serves on the board of Kamochah, a non-profit organization centering and servicing the Black Orthodox Jewish community. With all of this, Tikvah spends most of her time generously loving on her husband, Rabbi Tzadik Womack, three young boys, and Kerry Blue Terrier "Kerry Cupcake." In addition to her love and devotion to family, identity, work, and community, Tikvah enjoys dancing, music, and roller skating.