Joyce Antler is the Samuel Lane Professor of American Jewish History and Culture and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies Emerita at Brandeis University. She is the author of The Journey Home: How Jewish Women Shaped Modern America; You Never
Natalie Birnbaum
Natalie Birnbaum, Esq. is a healthcare attorney and policy expert shaping future of telehealth for medication abortion. As the State Legal and Policy Director at RHITES, her portfolio focuses on state policies impacting the equitable telehealth abortion care. As the founder of
Allie Bohm
Allie Bohm is a senior policy counsel at the New York Civil Liberties Union. She develops and advocates for policy solutions, primarily related to gender and sexuality – in particular, LGBTQ equality and reproductive freedom – and privacy and technology.
Lenore Davis
Lenore Davis is a board member, co-founder and former board chair of The Brigid Alliance. In 2017 she brought together four women who would go on to create a travel service to help abortion seekers wherever state restrictions, stigma, poverty,
Shoshana Dweck
Shoshana Dweck serves on the Advisory Council of The Jewish Agency for Israel – North America, having begun her connection with The Jewish Agency as a part of the Global Emerging Leaders Forum in 2009. A second-generation activist in the world
Sophie Ellman-Golan
Sophie Ellman-Golan is the Director of Strategic Communications at Jews For Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ). Prior to joining the JFREJ staff, Sophie worked as a political and messaging strategist with a focus on antisemitism, and white nationalism, helping to
Allison Fine
Allison Fine is a nationally recognized leader at the intersection of social justice, philanthropy, and technology, with a long-standing commitment to advancing reproductive justice and Jewish communal life. Throughout her career, she has championed movements that protect bodily autonomy, strengthen democracy, and ensure
Dr. Sarit Golub
Sarit A. Golub, PhD, MPH, is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). Dr. Golub is a social psychologist with interdisciplinary training in public health and implementation science, and
Nancy Kaufman
Nancy Kaufman, a member of the Board of Directors of the New York Jewish Agenda, is a coach for women in the c-suite and a consultant for not-for-profits. She most recently served as CEO of the National Council of Jewish
Julie Kay
Julie is well-known as a litigator and a voice for using law to promote abortion rights and gender equity in the US and internationally. She is Founder and CEO of Reproductive Futures, the legal frontline of reproductive health care working
Dr. Felicia Kornbluh
Martin Duberman Visiting Scholar, New York Public Library, New York City, 2025-26; Visiting Professor, University of Tuebingen, Summer, 2023; Visiting Research Scholar in Law and Public Affairs and Visiting Professor, Princeton University, 2019-2020. @VTFeminist.bsky.social; Author, “Doctors, Lawyers, Activists and Justices:
Dr. Rachel Kranson
Dr. Rachel Kranson is the director of Jewish Studies and associate professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. A scholar of post-WWII American Jewish history, gender, and sexuality, she is the co-editor of A Jewish Feminine Mystique: Jewish
Rabbi Dov Linzer
Rabbi Dov Linzer is the President and Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School, an Orthodox rabbinical school and Torah center which promotes a more open and inclusive Orthodoxy. In this dual capacity, Rabbi Linzer oversees YCT’s growth, reach, and
Dr. Michal Raucher
Dr. Michal Raucher is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Her research focuses on reproduction, religious authority, and gender among Jews in America and Israel/Palestine. Raucher is the author of “Conceiving Agency: Reproductive
Rabbi Dennis Ross
Rabbi Dennis Ross served more than two decades as director of Concerned Clergy for Choice for Planned Parenthood Empire State Acts. His clergy advocacy leadership contributed to the enactment of vital New York State initiatives, including the Marriage Equality Act,
Susan Weidman Schneider
Susan Weidman Schneider, one of Lilith magazine‘s founding mothers, was the Editor-in-Chief since the magazine launched in 1976 and is currently Editor-In-Chief Emerita. Her writing about diverse women’s lives and work, about the importance of reproductive justice, the persistence of gender stereotyping
Shira Zemel
Shira Zemel is the Director of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW)’s abortion access campaign, the coordinated Jewish movement for reproductive health, rights, and justice. Shira has led this work since before the fall of Roe v. Wade and the Dobbs decision, helping