Team

Staff

  • Rabbi Nate DeGroot

    Director

    he/him

    Network weaver, community builder, sacredness seeker

    Bio

  • Linda Carranza

    Chief Operating Officer

    she/her

    Logistics whiz, operations extraordinaire, human rights advocate

    Bio

Founder

  • Rabbi Arthur Waskow, z"l

    Founder & Prophetic Envoy

    he/him

    Prophetic imaginator, activist rabbi, renowned author

    Photo credit: Rachael Warriner

    Bio

Board of Directors

  • Cherie Brown, Board Chair

    she/her

    Bio

  • Madeline Canfield

    she/her

    Bio

  • Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, Treasurer

    he/him

    Bio

  • Lex Rofeberg

    he/him

    Bio

  • Adam Sher

    he/him

    Bio

  • Rabbi Becky Silverstein

    he/him

    Bio

  • Rabbi Margot Stein

    she/her

    Bio

  • Linda Tobin

    she/her

    Bio

  • Yehudah Webster

    he/him

    Bio

  • Barbra Wiener

    she/her

    Bio

  • Bob Brand, Senior Fellow

    he/him

    Bio

Advisory Council

  • Heather Booth

    President, Midwest Academy

    Photo credit: K.K. Ottesen

    Bio

  • Rabbi Tamara Cohen

    Chief Program Officer, Moving Traditions

    Bio

  • Rabbi Diane Elliot

    Teacher, writer, founding steward of Taproot

    Photo credit: Susan Freundlich

    Bio

  • Koach Baruch (KB) Frazier

    Founder, Black Trans Torah Club; Co-founder, Tzedek Lab

    Bio

  • Rabbi Jill Hammer, PhD

    Director of Spiritual Education, Academy for Jewish Religion; Co-founder, Kohenet movement

    Bio

  • Bill McKibben

    Founder, Third Act

    Bio

  • SooJi Min-Maranda

    Executive Director, ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal

    Photo credit: JD Scott

    Bio

  • Gabriel Meyer

    Activist, musician, author, sacred community weaver

    Bio

  • Jacqui Patterson

    Founder and Executive Director, The Chisholm Legacy Project

    Bio

  • Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner

    Director, the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism

    Bio

  • Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

    Author, Past Scholar in Residence, the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW)

    Bio

  • Gloria Steinem

    Writer, lecturer, political activist, and feminist organizer

    Bio

  • Ahmet Selim Tekelioglu, PhD.

    Executive Director, CAIR-Philadelphia

    Bio

  • Rev Liz Theoharis

    Director, the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice; Co-Chair, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival

    Bio

  • Rabbi Jericho Vincent

    Founder, Temple of the Stranger; Former Shalom Center Board Member

    Bio

  • Jim Winkler

    Former General Secretary and President, The National Council of Churches

    Bio