Rabbi Shai Gluskin serves as a senior consultant for JRF as well as running his own web development and consultant business, "Content2zero." Shai has been a leader in the use of interactive technologies for Jewish settings. He developed the Torahquest educational program to get kids commenting on Torah. He fashioned JRF's divrei Torah database and its web site as a tool to be used for grassroots movement building. Shai blogs at http://everydayandeverynight.com and tweets at http://twitter.com/rabbishai

Rabbi Hayim Herring is the Executive Director of STAR (Synagogues: Transformation and Renewal), whose mission is to renew Jewish life through congregational innovation and leadership development. One of STAR’s signature initiatives is Synaplex™, a national synagogue renewal effort with over 130 participating congregations.
Rabbi Herring has conducted studies and published articles in the areas of Jewish continuity, Jewish adolescence, Jewish identity-formation in postmodern America, Conservative Judaism, new organizational models of the American Jewish community, re-envisioning the synagogue and the rabbinate in the United States, and the role of continuing education for congregational rabbis. Currently, he is researching the impact of denominational ideology on Jewish life.

Carol Feder is an Independent organization development consultant with focus on working with non-profit organizations including many Jewish local and national organizations. Carol received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania., an M.S.W. from Catholic University, and an M.S. in Organizational Development from American University. Carol is a founding member of Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation in Bethesda, MD, where she has held many offices including Chair of first Capital Campaign and most recently, immediate past co-president, and is a founding member of the Tikkun Olam Women’s Foundation of Greater Washington. She is a member of the Board of Governors and Executive Committee, Chair of Leadership Development and Nominating Committee at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. Carol and her husband Jack have three grown children including a daughter who has been a camper and staff member of Camp JRF for the past six summers.

Rabbi Nancy Epstein (RRC '06) is the Director of Congregational Relations for the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation (JRF). Nancy has worked with communities for over 30 years, holding positions of leadership in the areas of community organizing, nonprofit management, public policy, legislation and advocacy. She is trained in systems-centered approaches to organizational development and as a mediator of interpersonal and complex policy disputes and has served as a consultant to professional associations, not-for-profit organizations, universities, and national foundations. In addition to her role at JRF, Rabbi Epstein serves as an Associate Professor of Community Health at the Drexel University School of Public Health.

Rabbi Shawn Israel Zevit, (www.rabbizevit.com) is the Director of Outreach & Tikkun Olam, and a congregational consultant and resource developer for the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation. He is a founding member of Shabbat Unplugged and the Davenning Leaders’ Training Institute, and a spiritual director for numerous clergy and communities. He has written and developed resources and delivered workshops in the areas of community building, leadership, prayer, interactive midrash, contemporary views of GOD, prayer and spiritual leadership skills, money and Jewish values, social justice issues, Jewish environmental concerns and Jewish men's issues. He is the author of "Offerings of the Heart: Money and Values in Faith Community (Alban, 2005) and a forthcoming book for Jewish Men.

Rabbi Jill Jacobs is the Rabbi-in-Residence of Jewish Funds For Justice and the author of There Shall be No Needy: Pursuing Social Justice through Jewish Law and Tradition. She writes and speaks frequently about Judaism and social justice, with an emphasis on issues such as poverty, labor relations, housing issues, criminal justice, and environmental sustainability. Rabbi Jacobs was named to the Forward Newspaper's annual list of fifty influential American Jews in 2006 and 2008 and to Newsweek's list of the fifty most influential rabbis in 2009. She received rabbinic ordination and an MA in Talmud from the Jewish Theological Seminary; an MS in Urban Affairs from Hunter College, CUNY; and a BA in Comparative Literature from Columbia University. She lives in Manhattan with her husband, Guy Austrian.

Deane Root is the current president of Congregation Dor Hadash in Pittsburgh, the largest and oldest JRF affiliate that is primarily lay-led. His wife, Doris Dyen, is a student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinnical College. As a musicologist and librarian at the University of Pittsburgh he has taught, conducted research and published widely on the meaning of music in the lives of Americans. His spiritual journey to Judaism has involved participating with diverse groups through Dor Hadash including the school, a spiritually centered Havurah, Harmoniah singing, and a Torah study minyan, as well as the New Community Chevre Kadisha.

Carole Caplan (carolecaplan@livebychoice.com) is proud to be a past president of the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation in Evanston, IL, and to have helped build their new building as the "greenest" shul in America. She is currently a Greenfaith Fellow, participating in a unique multi-faith endeavor which teaches stewardship of the environment as imperative spiritual work (see Greenfaith.org). Carole's company, Live by Choice, assists clients in making empowered choices for sustainable environments including low- toxic "green" building products, water filters, air filters and cleaning products. A certified meditation and yoga instructor, Carole teaches to both children and adults in the Chicagoland area.

Rabbi Shawn Israel Zevit, is the Director of Outreach & Tikkun Olam, and a congregational consultant and resource developer for the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation. He is a founding member of Shabbat Unplugged and the Davenning Leaders’ Training Institute, and a spiritual director for numerous clergy and communities. He has written and developed resources and delivered workshops in the areas of community building, leadership, prayer, interactive midrash, contemporary views of GOD, prayer and spiritual leadership skills, money and Jewish values, social justice issues, Jewish environmental concerns and Jewish men's issues. He is the author of "Offerings of the Heart: Money and Values in Faith Community (Alban, 2005).

Rachel Feldman, is the Assistant Director of Organizing at the Jewish Funds for Justice (JFSJ) and a trained community organizer. Before joining JFSJ, Rachel worked as an organizer in Tampa, Florida with an affiliate organization of the DART national network. She helped found the Washtenaw County Workers’ Center in Washtenaw County, Michigan and organized low-wage and immigrant workers to change workplace conditions and local policy.

Rabbi Elliot Tepperman, is the senior rabbi of Bnai Keshet, Montclair, NJ, and one of the first Reconstructionist rabbis and JRF communities to embrace CBCO and take a leading role in the Jewish community locally and nationally in organzing for social justice. Rabbi Elliott Tepperman has been exploring Congregation Based Community Organizing with his congregation since 2004. He is a founding member the IAF affiliated New Jersey Together. He has worked with Jewish Funds for Justice as a trainer teaching CBCO at the RRC, other seminaries and at the Kehillah Kedushah gatherings. As part of his upcoming sabbatical he will be working part-time as an IAF organizer in New Jersey. You can read many of Rabbi Tepperman's writings on the subject of CBCO on the JRF CBCO home page

Rabbi Shawn Israel Zevit, is the Director of Outreach & Tikkun Olam, and a congregational consultant and resource developer for the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation. He is a founding member of Shabbat Unplugged and the Davenning Leaders’ Training Institute, and a spiritual director for numerous clergy and communities. He has written and developed resources and delivered workshops in the areas of community building, leadership, prayer, interactive midrash, contemporary views of GOD, prayer and spiritual leadership skills, money and Jewish values, social justice issues, Jewish environmental concerns and Jewish men's issues. He is the author of "Offerings of the Heart: Money and Values in Faith Community (Alban, 2005) and a forthcoming book for Jewish Men.

Sarah Chandler is a former Jewish environmental educator with Teva Learning Center, Sarah is the Education Director of West End Synagogue in Manhattan and Director of Programming for Zeek: Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture. A contributing editor for Jewschool.com and RadicalTorah.org, she is also part of creating the upcoming Jewish education and social networking site JewItYourself.com.

Nili Simhai serves as Director of the Teva Learning Center. During her ten-year tenure as Director, she is proud to have helped create Teva’s Shomrei Chayyot, Yitziah, and “Bringing It Back to Our Schools” programs. She is loves working with educators and is delighted to be launching the pilot effort to create a Certificate in Jewish Environmental Education.

Herb Tobin of Herb Tobin Consulting is a Development Consultant to the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Eduction; the Grinspoon Foundation and Hillel.

Marla Friedenberg holds a master degree in Public Administration (1975) from the University of Pittsburgh. She held the position of Assistant Housing Director of The City of Philadelphia from 1976 until 1984. In 1994 she received a MBA degree from LaSalle University and held the position of Director of Operations for a Philadelphia-based fundraising consulting firm specializing in the American Jewish milieu until 2004. She left the consulting field to become Director of Development at Abrams Hebrew Academy where she successfully raised the funds to erect a new and modern educational campus. She is currently the Assistant Development Director for the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation and Camp JRF.

Rabbi Nancy Epstein (RRC '06) is the Director of Congregational Relations for the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation (JRF). Nancy has worked with communities for over 30 years, holding positions of leadership in the areas of community organizing, nonprofit management, public policy, legislation and advocacy. She is trained in systems-centered approaches to organizational development and as a mediator of interpersonal and complex policy disputes and has served as a consultant to professional associations, not-for-profit organizations, universities, and national foundations. In addition to her role at JRF, Rabbi Epstein serves as an Associate Professor of Community Health at the Drexel University School of Public Health.

Rabbi David Teutsch has been a builder of religious community since becoming a congregational rabbi over thirty years ago. He is the Wiener Professor of Contemporary Jewish Civilization and director of the Levin-Lieber Program in Jewish Ethics at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where he served as president for nearly a decade. He previously served as executive director of the JRF. The editor in chief of the groundbreaking Kol Haneshamah prayer book series published by JRF’s Reconstructionist Press, he has also authored several other books including Imagining the Jewish Future and five volumes in the series A Guide to Jewish Practice published by RRC Press. A renowned consultant and trainer, he pioneered values-based decision making.

Rabbi Nancy Epstein (RRC '06) is the Director of Congregational Relations for the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation (JRF). Nancy has worked with communities for over 30 years, holding positions of leadership in the areas of community organizing, nonprofit management, public policy, legislation and advocacy. She is trained in systems-centered approaches to organizational development and as a mediator of interpersonal and complex policy disputes and has served as a consultant to professional associations, not-for-profit organizations, universities, and national foundations. In addition to her role at JRF, Rabbi Epstein serves as an Associate Professor of Community Health at the Drexel University School of Public Health.

Hannah Greenstein is the Outreach Coordinator for the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation of Metropolitan NY/NJ and a graduating rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Prior to rabbinical school, Hannah worked for the Jewish Outreach Institute, a transdenominational organization that advocates for accepting interfaith couples in the Jewish community. Hannah holds a BA in Jewish Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. She currently resided in Westchester with her husband and new baby boy.

Susan Leon is an active lay leader in outreach from Bet Am Shalom and recipient of the NY/NJ Regional Keruv award.

Rabbi Nancy Epstein (RRC '06) is the Director of Congregational Relations for the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation (JRF). Nancy has worked with communities for over 30 years, holding positions of leadership in the areas of community organizing, nonprofit management, public policy, legislation and advocacy. She is trained in systems-centered approaches to organizational development and as a mediator of interpersonal and complex policy disputes and has served as a consultant to professional associations, not-for-profit organizations, universities, and national foundations. In addition to her role at JRF, Rabbi Epstein serves as an Associate Professor of Community Health at the Drexel University School of Public Health.

Rabbi Shawn Israel Zevit, is the Director of Outreach & Tikkun Olam, and a congregational consultant and resource developer for the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation. He is a founding member of Shabbat Unplugged and the Davenning Leaders’ Training Institute, and a spiritual director for numerous clergy and communities. He has written and developed resources and delivered workshops in the areas of community building, leadership, prayer, interactive midrash, contemporary views of GOD, prayer and spiritual leadership skills, money and Jewish values, social justice issues, Jewish environmental concerns and Jewish men's issues. He is the author of "Offerings of the Heart: Money and Values in Faith Community (Alban, 2005) and a forthcoming book for Jewish Men.

Rabbi Mordechai Liebling served as executive director of the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation for 12 years and is the Executive Vice President of the Jewish Funds for Justice. He is a consultant to JRF, a consultant on Money and Values issues for the Shefa Fund of Philadelphia, and a member of Reconstructionist Minyan Dorshei Derekh in Philadelphia.