Marty Kelso has diverse experience as a writer. Upon graduation from the College of William & Mary, he worked in script development, including collaborations with Jane Fonda and Pierce Brosnan for Turner Network Television. As an advertising copywriter, he has partnered with such brands as Baskin-Robbins, Irwin Tools, and MetLife, and was nominated for an Emmy Award for short form writing. Marty is partner and creative director of Kelso Communications, a full-service advertising agency in Charlotte, NC.

Noam Sienna is a scholar of Jewish culture and history, focusing especially on the medieval and early modern periods, and with a particular interest in Jewish communities in the Islamic world. His first book, A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969 (Philadelphia: Print-o-Craft Press, 2019), collects 120 primary sources for the study of LGBTQ Jewish history, with introductions and extensive bibliography.

Lisa Traiger writes on dance and the arts from the Washington, D.C., suburbs. She has been watching Lerman’s works since the early 1980s. She edits and writes for Dance/USA’s From the Green Room, an online publication for the professional dance field, and is arts correspondent for Washington Jewish Week.

Louise Leibowitz is a doctoral student in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, UCL. She is currently recording the oral histories of “ordinary” South African Jewish women who lived with Apartheid. She received an MA in Politics and International Relations from the University of New South Wales, Australia, in 2008; her MA thesis was on “The Politics of Pressure: Jewish Liberalism and Apartheid South Africa.”

Rachel Adelstein is the Managing Editor of Musica Judaica Online Reviews. She received her PhD in ethnomusicology from the University of Chicago in 2013. Between 2014 and 2017, she was the Donnelley Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge.

Josh Lambert is the Sophia Moses Robison Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and English, and director of the Jewish Studies Program, at Wellesley College.

Ludmila Scheinkman is Assistant Researcher at the National Council for Science and Technological Research of Argentina and Assistant Professor at the History Department, University of Buenos Aires, teaching courses in General Social History, Gender History and Feminist Theory. She received her PhD in History from Universidad de Buenos Aires in 2017. Her dissertation, "Female, Male and Child Labor in the Confectionary Industry in Buenos Aires in the first half of the 20th century. Work experiences, protest and daily life," won the 2019 award for the best doctoral thesis from the Argentine Association for Research in Women's History and Gender Studies.

Mónica Szurmuk is Senior Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina and a Professor at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Her books include Women in Argentina, Early Travel Narratives; Dictionary of Latin American Cultural Studies, The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature, and La vocación desmesurada: Una biografía de Alberto Gerchunoff. She is the editor of the Latin American Literature in Transition series for Cambridge University Press.

Mónica Szurmuk, Senior Researcher, National Council for Science and Technological Research of Argentina (CONICET); Professor of Latin American Studies, Universidad Nacional de San Martín.

Ruth Barton is Associate Professor in Film Studies and Head of School of Creative Arts at Trinity College Dublin. As well as her biography of Hedy Lamarr, Hedy Lamarr, The Most Beautiful Woman in Film (University Press of Kentucky, 2010), she has published widely on Irish cinema and the Irish diaspora. Her latest publication is Irish Cinema in the Twenty-First Century (Manchester University Press, 2019).

Ranen Omer-Sherman is The JHFE Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Louisville. He is the author or editor of five books, including Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American Literature: Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff, Roth (2002), Israel in Exile: Jewish Writing and the Desert (2006), The Jewish Graphic Novel: Critical Approaches (2008), Narratives of Dissent: War in Contemporary Israeli Arts and Culture (2013), and Imagining Kibbutz: Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film (2015), as well as numerous essays.

Marcie Cohen Ferris is an emeritus professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she serves as an editor for Southern Cultures, a quarterly journal of the history and cultures of the U.S. South. Ferris is the author of The Edible South:  The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region (UNC Press, 2014), Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South (UNC Press, 2005; nominated for a James Beard Award, 2006), and co-editor of Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History (Brandeis, 2006). Ferris’ scholarship addresses issues of regional identity, culture, history, and place. Her teaching examines the history of the Jewish South, American Food Studies, American Jewish women’s history, and the histories and cultures of the American South.

Rona Atlas has been part of the administrative and educational team at Pelech since 2010. She has a BA in Jewish history from the Hebrew University and a MA in Jewish education. Her teaching certificate is from Kerem Institute.

Beth Schenker is the host and executive producer of The Big Schmear, a podcast about the history and culture of Jewish food. She is a member of the Boston-based Jewish Arts Collaborative Think Tank. Schenker held the title of Associate Dean for Public and Noncredit Programs for over thirteen years at the Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership in Chicago.

Tafat Hacohen-Bick wrote her doctoral dissertation on the subject of theology and poetics in the poetry of Pinchas Sadeh, Yona Wallach, and Zelda Schneerson, under the supervision of Dr. Hamutal Tsamir, in the Department of Hebrew Literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Heksherim Institute in the department of Hebrew Literature in Ben-Gurion University and teaches at Achva college and at Ben-Gurion University in Eilat.

Elissa Gershowitz is executive editor of The Horn Book, Inc. She holds an MA from the Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons University and a BA from Oberlin College. She has chaired the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Committee and served on the Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee.