Sarah B. Rowley is an assistant professor of history at DePauw University, where she teaches recent U.S. women’s, gender, and sexuality history. She is working on a book about congresswomen, gender, and political culture in the 1970s.

Julie R. Enszer, PhD, is the author of four poetry collections, including Lilith’s Demons, and the editor of The Complete Works of Pat Parker, Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989, and Milk & Honey: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry. Enszer edits and publishes Sinister Wisdom, a multicultural lesbian literary and art journal. More at www.JulieREnszer.com.

Jillian M. Hinderliter is a historian of the twentieth-century United States, modern Jewish history, and women’s health. She defended her dissertation “Patients’ Rights, Patients’ Politics: Jewish Activists of the U.S. Women’s Health Movement, 1969-1990,” at the University of South Carolina in May 2021. Her research on Jewish women and feminist health activism has been published in the journal American Jewish History and she has also written on her work in Jewish Women Amplified and Studying the South, the blog of the Southern Studies Program at College of Charleston.

Douglas Rosenberg is a Professor of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the Founding Director of the Conney Project on Jewish Arts and an artist whose work in Screendance has been exhibited internationally. Additionally, he is the author of Screendance: Inscribing the Ephemeral Image and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies, both published by Oxford University Press.

Kathi Wolfe is a writer and poet. Her poetry has appeared in Poetry Magazine and other publications. She writes frequently on disability and LGBTQ issues. Wolfe is a contributor to the Washington Blade (www.washingtonblade.com), an LGBTQ paper.

Sandra Chiritescu is a PhD Candidate in Yiddish Studies at Columbia University. She is writing a dissertation on feminist literature in Yiddish and English in the late twentieth century. She is pedagogy editor at In geveb: A Journal for Yiddish Studies.

Sophie Duvernoy is a PhD candidate in German Literature at Yale University, where she focuses on the literature and aesthetic theory of the Weimar Republic.

Dara E. Goldman is a professor of Spanish at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), specializing in contemporary Latin American and Caribbean literatures and cultures. Her research and teaching focus on transnational cultures, gender, sexuality, and Jewish identity in the literature, films, music, art, and other expressive forms in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and U.S. Caribbean communities. She is the director of the Program in Jewish Culture & Society at UIUC.

Estelle Disch taught sociology for 40 years, focusing on gender and multiculturalism.  She wrote about pedagogy and did research and advocacy focused on sexual abuse by professionals. She lives in Cambridge, MA, currently making art, and has recently created a project that raises funds for the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo. www.estelledisch.com

Raelene Camille Wyse holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation, “Sounding Jewish Multilingualism: An Aesthetics of Language Survival in Latin American and US Latinx Cultural Production” (2018), includes a chapter on the Yinglish in Aurora Levins Morales’ and Rosario Morales’ Getting Home Alive (1986).

Rachel Kranson is an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Ambivalent Embrace: Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America (University of North Carolina Press, 2017) and co-editor of A Jewish Feminine Mystique: Jewish Women in Postwar America (Rutgers University Press, 2010). Her current research focuses on American Jews and the politics of abortion.

Nancy Gertner is a retired U.S. District Court judge for the District of Massachusetts. She left the bench in 2011 to join the faculty at the Harvard Law School. She is the editor of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Representative Opinions (Talbot Press, forthcoming 2021). She is also the author of Incomplete Sentences (Beacon, forthcoming 2021), a judicial memoir about being a judge in a regime of mass incarceration, and In Defense of Women: Memoirs of an Unrepentant Advocate (Beacon, 2011).  

Michele Clark was a member of The Women’s Mental Health Collective in Somerville, MA, for fourteen years. She then taught for twenty years in the Goddard College Graduate Program in Psychology & Counseling, where her focus was feminism, chemical dependence, and the therapeutic relationship.

Fernando Davidovitsch is a professor of dance at the Federal University of Sergipe in Brazil and is working on a PhD in Performing Arts at the University of Sao Paulo. He researches the relationship between tradition and contemporaneity in Israeli dance.

Max Modiano Daniel is the public historian and Jewish Heritage Collection coordinator at the College of Charleston. He specializes in the history of Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews in the United States. He also co-hosts and produces El Ponte, a podcast about Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) language and culture. 

 

Julie Felise Dubiner is a dramaturg, producer, and teacher. She has been on staff at American Revolutions/OSF, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and the Prince Music Theater and has freelanced and taught all over the United States.

Laura Yares is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Michigan State University. Her work explores Jewish education as a site for understanding the ways that Jews have constructed and continue to construct understandings of self, community and other.

Sophie Wilson is a PhD candidate at Queen Mary, University of London. Her research examines Jewish suffrage campaigners in the British women's suffrage movement and considers intersecting identities such as race, religion, and class.

Jordan Namerow is a writer and communications professional.

Karyn Grossman Gershon has served as Executive Director of Project Kesher since 1994 and traveled to the regions where Project Kesher works more than 50 times. Karyn is a graduate of Cornell University and Northwestern University School of Law. She has spoken on the role of women in the rebirth of Jewish life in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine on public radio and at various universities including Northwestern, Columbia, Washington University, and Stanford. She was a fellow at the Wexner Heritage Foundation and named a Jewish Chicagoan of the Year by The Chicago Jewish News.

Shana Penn is the author of books and articles including Solidarity’s Secret: The women who defeated communism in Poland (University of Michigan Press, 2005) and Gender Politics and Everyday Life in State Socialist Eastern and Central Europe, co-edited with Jill Massino (Palgrave USA 2009). She is executive director of Taube Philanthropies, based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Dr. Natan Aridan is a researcher at the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is editor of the journal Israel Studies. His recent book is Advocating for Israel: Diplomats and Lobbyists for Israel from Truman to Nixon. He is currently writing his next book on the contribution of Women and ‘Significant Others’ to Israeli Diplomacy.