Babette is an international writer whose work has appeared in publications such as Womanly Magazine and Elephant Journal. She was a newspaper journalist in Amsterdam before moving to the Bay Area.

Betsy More is JWA's Director of Programs. She earned her Ph.D. in history in 2012 from Harvard University, where her research focused on the history of work and motherhood in the United States. She has taught widely in American history, American studies, and women's and gender studies.  She is a recipient of fellowships including the Mellon/ACLS Early Career Research Fellowship and the Women and Public Policy Fellowship from the Harvard Kennedy School. Most recently, she served as the Director of Open Circle Jewish Learning at Hebrew College. She lives in Belmont, MA with her husband and daughter.

Karen Kashian works as Staff Accountant at JWA. She's very passionate about social action and feminism; JWA’s feminist perspective is what first captured Karen’s interest in the organization, and she has enjoyed her part-time work here since 2005. She has worked in nonprofit accounting for over twenty-three years. In addition to the financial health of any nonprofit organization, it is the mission statement that makes her work exciting and worthwhile. Prior to her work with nonprofits, she spent ten years working at a CPA firm in Boston with the firm’s small business clients. This was a time when businesses were beginning to computerize their accounting functions, and she enjoyed implementing new systems and training the client’s bookkeeping and administrative staff. In her spare time, Karen is a singer in a local choir, a dancer, and an avid reader.

Maddie Solomon is a sophomore politics major at Occidental College from Denver, CO. Her work has been published in The Denver Post, The Jewish Journal, Women Media's Center, The Algemeiner, jGirls Magazine, and in other publications. She is on the editorial board of Women’s Media Center’s Fbomb section.

Jennifer Greenberg is a writer and music journalist based in New York. She recently returned from a three-year stay in Tel Aviv, where she worked as the editor of Time Out Israel and Atmosphere Magazine (EL-AL). She has written for Jewish publications like The Jerusalem Post, CJN, and Alma. Follow her on Twitter at @jm_greenberg or visit her website, jennifergreenbergwrites.com.

Rachel Zients Schinderman is a writer, teacher, and mother, but not always in that order. Her work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Manifest Station, and The Los Angeles Jewish Journal to name a few. She is a regular performer in the hit show Expressing Motherhood and had an ongoing column in The Santa Monica Daily Press called "Mommie Brain." Her work can be read at mommiebrain.com or rachelschinderman.journoportflio.com. She lives in Culver City, CA with her husband, two sons, and Harry, their poodle mix.

Hannah Kornblut is a Cleveland, Ohio native currently enrolled in the Honors Program at DePaul University in Chicago. She's a history and political science double major with a minor in Arabic. When she was in high school, she discovered her passion for history and politics. Her Jewish identity plays a large role in how she views the world and has shaped much of who she is today. Reading and writing was an integral part of her childhood and she's so excited to have the opportunity to turn her writing into a tool of justice.

Elana Moscovitch is a teacher, social worker, and guidance counselor working at a feminist girls’ school in Toronto. She is the mother of an eight-year-old daughter who has the Hebrew name Ma’ayan after her grandmother Zichrona L’bracha. The second time she lived in Jerusalem in seventh grade, she became best friends with Judith Rosenbaum, Executive Director of the Jewish Women’s Archive in Boston. Both of their families were on sabbatical that year and got to know each other. She and Judith were next door neighbors and attended the same Misorati Junior High School in French Hill. It is through following Judith’s posts and personal blog online that Elana discovered this avenue for publishing.  

Dahlia Soussan is a senior at Kehillah Jewish High School in the Bay Area, California. She is active in her school community as the Jewish Life Commissioner, the leader of her school’s minyan, and a leader of the Moot Beit Din team. She is an alumna of the Rising Voices Fellowship. Dahlia co-leads Jewish Teens for Empowered Consent (JTEC), an initiative dedicated to eradicating toxic hookup culture from Jewish youth groups. Outside of school, you can find Dahlia writing, cooking, on long phone calls with friends, or passionately discussing political, religious, and cultural issues. 

Sasha Azizi Rosenfeld is a sophomore at Columbia High School in Maplewood, NJ. She is the co-leader of her school’s current events club and a member of its Jewish Student Union. She is an active participant in an Israeli/Palestinian conflict, culture, and history class at NYC’s LGBTQIA+ synagogue. She also works at her Hebrew school, teaches Haitian refugees English, and co-leads a class for elementary school students about the effects of climate change. Sasha runs cross country and loves Camp Havaya, hanging out with her friends, the rain, fruit, and her dog, Opal.

Ella Plotkin-Oren is a senior at El Cerrito High School in California. Nothing makes her happier than working at Camp Kee Tov, where she was a long time camper. During the year, she works alongside survivors of genocide to research and disscuss patterns of genocide. She is a very active member of her local Jewish youth group, and interns with StandWithUs. Ella also loves her work as a teen volunteer at UC Berkeley’s public science center, and as a volunteer tutor for fourth graders. Whenever she can find free time, she loves exploring the Bay Area with her two little sisters.

Lilah Peck is a junior at Charlotte Country Day School in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she serves as the copy editor of her school newspaper and president of the interfaith club, where she leads forums relating to Jewish identity and current events. She is an active member of NCSY and BBYO. She spends her summers at Camp Ramah Darom, and she is an alumna of Ramah’s Israel semester program, Tichon Ramah Yerushalayim. She loves musical theater, and when she is not in rehearsal she can be found at Zumba at the JCC, listening to Jack Johnson, or enjoying a cup of bubble tea.

Mica Maltzman is a senior at Georgetown Day School in Washington, DC, where she is an editor for the school's newspaper, the head of the Jewish Student Coalition and a group called Student Voices, and a member of Model UN. Outside of school, she can be found at dance or a NFTY event as she serves as her region's Programming Vice President for the upcoming year. Beyond obsessively reading the news, she also likes to spend her free time thrifting or attempting to understand what her phone is saying in Spanish.

Ellanora Lerner is an eastern Connecticut resident currently studying history and education at Clark University. She is an editor at Risen Zine and an alumna of JWA’s 2019–2020 Rising Voices Fellowship. She is also a co-founder of Jewish Teens for Empowered Consent (JTEC), an initiative founded to combat toxic hookup culture in Jewish youth spaces. Find her on Instagram @ellanoruhhh and find JTEC at @jews4empoweredconsent. 

Hannah Landau is a junior at de Toledo High School in Los Angeles, where she is involved in theater, debate, and mathletes. She is the club president for her school’s literary magazine and for Girls Learn International. Hannah is a dancer, and she also tutors bar and bat mitzvah students. Hannah is a meme connoisseur and a spelling bee champion (favorite word: defenestration). She is a proud attendee of Camp Ramah in Ojai, an experienced shopper, and strives to improve herself and the world around her every day.

Ellie Klibaner-Schiff is a senior at Maimonides School in Brookline, MA, where she is Editor-in-Chief of the student newspaper, captain of the Math team and Mock Trial team, and founder of the Girls Who Code club. Ellie was a reporter for "Since Parkland," a joint project between The Trace and The Miami Herald, where she worked to chronicle the lives of children killed by gun violence in the year following the Parkland school shooting. She spends her Sunday mornings volunteering at Gateways, a Hebrew school for kids with disabilities, and is a 2019–2020 Rising Voices Fellowship alumna. Ellie will attend Harvard University after a gap year in Israel.