Catherine Bell

Catherine is a coach, facilitator, trainer, and nonprofit consultant who has spent two decades working collaboratively with people to unleash their power as change-makers. She partners with clients to build individual and team leadership rooted in authenticity, resiliency, and connection. Catherine specializes in coaching for antiracist leadership (for white people), as well as career development, navigating challenging interpersonal and team dynamics, and effective nonprofit leadership and management.
Before launching her consulting practice, she was a community organizer, the leader of JOIN for Justice’s Jewish Organizing Fellowship, and Chief Program Officer at Keshet, a national Jewish LGBTQ advocacy and education organization. Catherine is an ICF Certified Coach and has an MA in Sociology of Education, as well as training in dialogue facilitation, Theater of the Oppressed, and facilitation for racial justice. She lives in Long Beach, CA, with her spouse and two children.

Tracie Guy-Decker

Tracie (she/her) is a Senior Partner at Joyous Justice, LLC., and the co-host and co-creator of the podcast Jews Talk Racial Justice with April & Tracie. In addition to the podcast, Tracie's work at Joyous Justice includes co-creating and co-facilitating racial justice curriculum, especially for Jewish audiences. Until November 2020, she was the Deputy Director at the Jewish Museum of Maryland (JMM). In that role, she oversaw all of the operations for a museum that aims to be a convener and connector for its communities: the Jewish community, the city of Baltimore, and the national Museum community. Tracie is a leader for Jewish social justice efforts in her roles as chair of the social justice committee at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation and as co-chair of the Baltimore leadership council of Jews United for Justice. Tracie has a Master of Arts in Religious Studies from the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. After completing the degree, she began the work of pursuing a PhD in Modern Jewish Thought from the same institution, but left the program, choosing to apply her time and energy to making change outside of academia. She completed her undergraduate work in Religion and English at Oberlin College. Tracie lives on Susquehannock Land, also known as Baltimore, Maryland. She makes her home on the city’s west side with her Navy Chief husband (when he’s not stationed overseas), their elementary-aged daughter, two poorly behaved dogs, and a long-suffering cat.

Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg

Jessica (she/her) is an organizer and rabbi, currently residing on Dakota land, also home to the Anishinaabe, known as South Minneapolis. She was raised on Lenape land, in the Philadelphia suburbs, by Ken z”l and Shelley, accidental organizers who taught her that Jewish communities should be life-giving and justice-striving, and that it is up to us to build them. She’s a white, queer, class-privileged, currently able-bodied, an Ashkenazi femme. She became a Reconstructionist rabbi in order to learn our people’s diverse and nuanced histories, and create spaces, ritual, and organizing that helps transform our relationships to past, present and future. She has worked as a national organizer at Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, and is a collective member of the Radical Jewish Calendar project. She has served and learned from: the visionary young people at Keshet’s LGBTQIA Teen Shabbatonim; the rabbis and members of Jewish Voice for Peace; the Jewish Congregation at SCI-Phoenix Prison. You can check out some of her writing in an Introduction to Trauma, Healing and Resilience for Rabbis, Jewish Educators and Organizers, published by Reconstructing Judaism.

Jo Kent Katz

Jo (she/her) received her Masters in Social Justice Education, and was transformed as an educator, by the generous and liberatory teachings of Barbara J. Love through the Social Justice Education program at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and through Barbara’s introduction into the practices of Re-evaluation Counseling.  She completed her Masters program in Counseling Psychology and trained in Drama Therapy, at the California Institute of Integral Studies in 2014. In 2019/5779, she received smicha, ordained as a Hebrew Priestess, through the lineage, scholarship, and spiritual guidance of Rabbi Jill Hammer, Taya Ma Shere and Shoshana Jedwab of the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute.   Guided through her own healing, and trained as a healing practitioner with Gabrielli LaChiara and Lori Friedman through the Infinity Healing School of Western Massachusetts, she lean into my training for politicized embodiment with Generative Somatics.  Jo trained in Psychodrama with the The Hudson Valley Psychodrama Institute and offers gratitude to the brilliant Leticia Nieto for her powerful political contributions to the fields of Drama Therapy and Psychodrama.

Dubbs Weinblatt

Dubbs (they/them) is the Founder and Executive Producer of Thank You For Coming Out which celebrates the LGBTQIA+ community by showcasing queer stories and identities through a podcast, improv and storytelling.  They are the Co-Founder and Executive Producer of Craft Your Truth, an organization that encourages LGBTQIA+ folks to use any kind of performance art as a way to express their stories and connect with their community around them.  Dubbs is also the Associate Director of Education and Training at Keshet, a national organization that works for the full equality of all LGBTQ Jews and their families in Jewish life.   Dubbs travels the country teaching workshops on LGBTQ inclusion, speaking on panels and at events, and consulting with organizations. Through the power of storytelling and humor, Dubbs shares their story and connects with their audiences to inspire change for a more equitable world.   Dubbs has spoken at Princeton, Ohio State and on panels all over the country, and has worked with organizations like KWT Global, The Ally Coalition, Level Forward, and more. They're also a writer! Check out their blog and their most recent pieces on Hey, Alma.  Dubbs' personal experience as a genderqueer trans Jew informs much of the work they do today and makes them a passionate educator, advocate and community leader.

Talia Cooper

Talia Cooper is a body liberation coach, social change educator, and singer-songwriter. She became an activist as a young person raised in Berkeley, CA. Talia believes that people are inherently good, wise, and creative, and that loving ourselves is a birthright. As a coach, Talia supports people who want to learn to accept their bodies and free up more time and energy to pursue their dreams. She loves big earrings, Jewish rituals, dancing to pop music, baking cookies, hiking, and singing in groups. Learn more on her website.

Nomy Lamm

Nomy began performing with Sins Invalid in 2008, and since then has been on the Artistic Core (2008-2010), Directed the Artists in Residence Program (2010), and has worked as staff since 2013. Nomy is a multi-media artist, musician, writer and performer who teaches voice lessons and offers creative coaching focused on helping students move through fear and self-judgement to take up space and find equilibrium in radical authenticity (nomyteaches.com). She is an ordained Kohenet (Hebrew Priestess), holds a BA in Multimedia Art and Political Economy from The Evergreen State College, and has an MFA in Fiction from San Francisco State University. She lives on occupied Squaxin/Nisqually/Chehalis land in Olympia, WA with her partner Lisa, their dogs Dandelion and Momma, and their cat Calendula. 

Annie-Rose London

Annie-Rose (they/she) creates raucous experiences of joy and pleasure to counteract systems of dehumanizing oppression. They draw together the fields of organizational development, leadership, ecological design, and social justice through training, consultation and performance. They have called themselves a dancer, a performance artist, a burlesque clown, a ritualist, an educator, an activist, a healer. Annie-Rose works with progressive organizations and community groups as a coach, equity trainer, conflict mediator and creative strategist.