LeaderFolk

Miryam Kabakov, executive director of Eshel, joins Sara and speaks about her Jewish journey and her work to support and advocate for LGBTQ+ individuals in the Orthodox Jewish community.
http://eshelonline.org
http://funorthodox.com
https://yenteovertherainbow.com
https://jewishwomen.org/initiatives/collective/

Amanda Katz, executive director of the Jewish Coalition Against Domestic Abuse, joins Sara to discuss power-based violence, the challenges of continuing to serve vulnerable community members from afar and managing work-life balance during the pandemic.
http://www.jcada.org
facebook.com/JewishCoalitionAgainstDomesticAbuse
twitter.com/JCADA_ORG
www.instagram.com/jcada_org
www.facebook.com/amanda.c.katz
www.linkedin.com/in/amandackatz
www.instagram.com/katzamanda319/

Kelly Cohen, director of JumpSpark, speaks passionately with Sara about innovation in Jewish teen engagement and how teenagers are not just the Jewish leaders of our future, but are Jewish leaders in our current moment.
@JumpSparkATL (Facebook and Instagram)
Roadtriptocollege.org
JumpSparkATL.org
https://www.parshastorybookproject.com/

Karen Erlichman joins Sara this week to discuss how her work as a Jewish communal professional intersects with her work as a therapist and a spiritual director. We also explore the feeling of being an outsider within the Jewish community and what our organizations and spaces can do to become truly welcoming.
https://karenerlichman.com
www.jewishstudioproject.org
Twitter: @KEreplenish
Instagram: @kereplenish

Dana Levinson Steiner joins Sara to talk about developing new generations of creative Jewish leaders and what it means to cultivate diverse leadership in our organizations.
Twitter: @DSteinerACCESS
Instagram: @dlsteiner87
AJC Instagram: @ajc.global

Caroline Rothstein, internationally touring performer, poet, and Jewish leader, speaks openly with Sara about creating cultures of consent within our Jewish communities. Using this framework of consent as a jumping-off point, we explore the complicated ways that Jewish identity intersects with white supremacy and how transparency and consent create spaces for our fullest, most authentic selves.

Website: https://www.carolinerothstein.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cerothstein
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carolinerothstein/

Stephanie Goldfarb, director of community engagement for Honeymoon Israel Chicago, joins Sara for a discussion about her intersectional work at Honeymoon Israel and how grassroots Jewish projects, like Stephanie's Seven Species Supper Club, can be powerful communal touchpoints.
www.honeymoonisrael.org
instagram.com/foodfarb

Why does this moment, from the killing of George Floyd to the subsequent protests nationwide, resonate more strongly and activate our communities more viscerally than previous examples of police brutality or violent racism? This is just one question that we pose to Beckee Birger this week. Beckee also speaks about her amazing work developing future generations of justice-oriented, Jewish philanthropists through her work as the Program Director for Teen Leadership and Philanthropy for the Jewish Federation of Chicago and the power of spaces specifically for Jews of Color, like the Jews of Color Caucus which she helped to create at the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs.
https://jcua.org/kol-or/

Carrie Bornstein, executive director of Mayyim Hayyim, swings by to talk about her experiences taking over for a founding executive director (Fun fact: She took over for Aliza Kline, our first ever LeaderFolk guest!), becoming a surrogate as an ED, and managing family-life boundaries as a Jewish leader.
http://Mayyimhayyim.org
http://Risingtideopenwaters.org
http://Theresnoiinuterus.wordpress.com

Sara Shapiro-Plevan, co-founder of the Gender Equity in Hiring Project and the founder of Rimonim Consulting, is a leader when it comes to improving and implementing gender equity in Jewish communal leadership. Her background as a congregational educator serves as an important foundation for her work and her conversation on this week's episode.

https://www.facebook.com/jwequity/
https://www.instagram.com/genderequityinhiringproject/