Priscilla Balch received an MLS degree from the Pratt Graduate School of Library and Information Science in January 1969. She is the co-chair of the Eleanor Leff Jewish Women’s Resource Center at the National Council of Jewish Women in New York.

Michele Klein is an independent scholar. Her book, A Time to be Born: Customs and Folklore of Jewish Birth (Philadelphia: JPS, 1998, 2000), won the National Jewish Book Award. She has served as guest curator at The Jewish Museum London, Bar Ilan University's Department of Jewish Art, the Judah L. Magnes Museum at Berkeley, California, and Beit Hatfutsot Museum: Museum of the Jewish People, Tel Aviv.

Mara W. Cohen Ioannides studies American Judaism and is president of the Midwest Jewish Studies Association. She teaches in the English Department at Missouri State University.

Abigail Pogrebin is the author of Stars of David and My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew, which was a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award.  She moderates public conversations for the Manhattan JCC and The Streicker Center and was President of Central Synagogue in New York.

Hilary L. Rubinstein was educated at the University of Keele, England; Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania; and Simmons College, Boston. Widely published on Australian Jewish history, as well as on other historical topics, she has a PhD in History from the Australian National University and is a Fellow of the British based Royal Historical Society.

Georges Weill was born in 1934 in Strasbourg, France, and passed away in 2022. He was a specialist in archival management and in the modern history of the Jews of France, on which he  published numerous books and articles. He served as Curator in the library of the Alliance israélite universelle and as Chief Inspector of the French Archives. A former hidden child during World War II, he served as a witness to the life of his aunt Andrée Salomon. 

Dr. Taft is a Research Associate at Monash University with an interest in post-war Jewish immigration. Her publications include From Victim to Survivor: The Emergence and Development of the Holocaust Witness 1941-49 (Vallentine Mitchell, London, 2013) and A Second Chance: The Making of Yiddish Melbourne (Monash Publishing, Melbourne, 2018), shortlisted for the Victorian Community History Awards. She is currently working on a biography of community leaders Leo and Mina Fink.

Moria Ran Ben Hai’s research focuses on modern Orthodox feminism in Israel and the United States, from its inception to the present day. Her PhD dissertation sketched Professor Alice Shalvi's biography as a case study for changes in the status of women in Israel from the 1970s to 2000, focusing on the Pelech high school for religious girls and the Israel Women's Network organization. Her current study focuses on the religious feminist organizations JOFA and Kolech.

Ruth Ann Hottell holds a Ph.D. in French studies from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has published widely on French film, literature, cultural studies, and women’s studies. She retired as Chair and Professor of French at the University of Toledo in 2018 and was appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques in 2019.

Yoel Yaari is the Henri and Erna Leir Professor for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases at the Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine in Jerusalem, where he received his doctoral degree in 1975. He published numerous articles on basic molecular and cellular mechanisms of neurological diseases, particularly epilepsy. In 2017 he began also investigating Holocaust-related topics, focusing on the accounts of Jewish women serving as couriers between eastern European ghettos during World War II. He published several articles in public media about the contribution of these women to anti-Nazi Jewish resistance.

Tamar Kamionkowski is Professor of Biblical Studies at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where she also served as the Vice President of Academic Affairs for almost a decade. Her books include Leviticus: A Wisdom Commentary and Gender Reversal and Cosmic Chaos: Studies in the Book of Ezekiel.

Samantha Baskind, Professor of Art History at Cleveland State University, is the author of five books, most recently The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture (2018), and co-editor of The Jewish Graphic Novel: Critical Approaches (2008), the foundational volume in the field. Baskind has published over 100 articles and reviews in academic journals, museum catalogues, edited collections, encyclopedias, and the popular press. She served as editor for U.S. art for the 22-volume revised edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica and is currently series editor of Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination, published by Penn State University Press.

Dr. Anne Summers is an Honorary Research Fellow in History at Birkbeck, University of London, and Chair of the Friends of The Women's Library. Formerly a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow and Curator of Modern Historical Manuscripts at the British Library, her latest monograph is Christian and Jewish Women in Britain, 1880-1940: Living with Difference.

Ellery Weil is a doctoral candidate at University College London (UCL). Her work focuses on internationalism and alliance-building in the Jewish women’s movement at the turn of the twentieth century. She currently holds an MA from UCL and a BA from the University of Michigan—Ann Arbor.

Alison Rose is part-time Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Rhode Island and part-time Instructor of Religion at Ohio Wesleyan University. She is the author of two books, Jewish Women in Fin de Siècle Vienna and Antisemitism, Gender Bias, and the “Hervay Affair” of 1904: Bigotry in the Austrian Alps.

Avery Weinman received her Bachelor’s Degree in History from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2019, and is now a doctoral student in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Primarily, her work focuses on histories of Mizrahi Jews in the modern period, the political history of the modern state of Israel, and the creation and utilization of collective memories.

Anat Dan works at the intersection of Film and Media studies, Human Rights, and Environmental Humanities. She is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Pennsylvania and holds an MFA degree and an MA degree from The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University.

Shoshana Olidort is Web Editor for the Poetry Foundation and is completing a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Stanford University. Her research focuses on Jewish women’s poetry in the 20th and 21st centuries across English, Hebrew, and Yiddish.  

Maya Balakirsky Katz is Associate Professor of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University and a senior candidate at the New Jersey Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is the author of The Visual Culture of Chabad (Cambridge, 2010) and Drawing the Iron Curtain: Jews and the Golden Age of Soviet Animation (Rutgers, 2016).

Arielle Silver-Willner is an Editorial Assistant and writer at Lilith magazine. She also teaches writing to children and spends her free time taking photos and working on her first novel.

Jennifer Baumgardner is the author of several books about feminism, including Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future; the director/producer of the documentaries I Had an Abortion and It Was Rape; and the owner of Dottir Press, a feminist publisher. She is former executive director of the Feminist Press, editor at Ms. magazine, and editor in chief of the Women's Review of Books. Originally from Fargo, North Dakota, Jennifer lives in New York City with her husband, two sons, and two Abyssinians.

Alona Bach received a BA in History of Science from Harvard and an MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge. She is currently a PhD student in MIT’s History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society program.