Speakers and presenters are listed in alphabetical order by last name.

Elizabeth Bolton has served as the rabbi of Congregation Beit Tikvah in Baltimore since 1999, and offers workshops, lectures, sermons and programs for Shabbatonim and Scholar in Residence weekends on Music and Liturgy. She founded the RRC ApiChorus as well as Makhelat Micha'el, a community choir based at Mishkan Shalom in Philadelphia. During her sabbatical in '07-08, she performed, with storyteller Gail Rosen, For Tomorrow: The Story and Poetry of Hilda Stern Cohen, a moving narrative of a German-born survivor.

Lolis Eric Elie is an award-winning newspaperman and accomplished author. Since 1995, he has chronicled the heartbeat of New Orleans' neighborhoods for New Orleans' major daily newspaper, The Times-Picayune. A recognized expert on New Orleans food and culture, Lolis is the author of Smokestack Lightning: Adventures in the Heart of Barbecue Country, a book about the culture of barbecue. He produced a television documentary based on that book and has several other culinary documentaries in development.

Rabbi Steve Gutow is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the public policy and community relations coordinating agency of the American Jewish community. In this position, Gutow has mobilized the Jewish community and advocated that the government end the genocide in Darfur, reform immigration policy, support Israel, protect individual rights, maintain and enhance anti-poverty programs, and create a sustainable environment. Gutow has also worked diligently to foster a stronger bond among the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths. For his leadership, Gutow has been named among the 20 most influential American rabbis (Newsweek, 2009) and in 2007 to the Forward 50. (The Forward, 2007).

Margaret Holub is the rabbi of the Mendocino Coast Jewish Community in the woods of northern California.

Rabbi Allan Lehmann counsels, teaches and advises rabbinical students in a number of settings as Associate Dean of Hebrew College's Rabbinical College. Before coming to Hebrew College in 2007, he served as the Jewish Chaplain and Rabbinic Hillel Director at Brandeis University for seven years. Previously he was the rabbi of a Conservative synagogue in Gainesville, Florida, for over twenty years.

Rabbi Mordechai Liebling is the director of the RRC's newly created Social Justice Organizing Program. Most recently he served as the executive vice president of Jewish Funds for Justice; prior to that organization's merger with The Shefa Fund, he held the title Torah of Money Director at TSF, providing guidance to help people apply Jewish laws and values to how they spend, invest and donate. For 12 years he was the executive director of the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation, and he later served there as senior consultant. Before entering the rabbinical program at RRC, he worked as a community organizer.

After several years of considering moving to Israel, Rabbi Morse made aliyah with his family in 1987 and has been a member of Moshav Shorashim since then. Due to the nature of religious life in Israel, Rabbi Morse has spent the past 20 years serving as "an educated layperson," teaching Judaism and fostering the development of liberal Judaism at Shorashim. He has also served on the Misgav Regional Religious Council. He received an honorary Doctor of Divinity from RRC (2008).

Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso is Senior Rabbi of Congregation Beth-El Zedeck in Indianapolis where she has served with her husband, Dennis C. Sasso, since 1977. She is an internationally known children's author who has published eleven children's books, four of which have also been made into board books. She has authored one book for adults, God's Echo - Exploring Scripture with Midrash. There are over 400, 000 copies of her books in print. She was the first woman ordained from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 1974 and received her Doctor of Ministry from Christian Theological Seminary.

Toba Spitzer graduated from RRC in 1997, and is the spiritual leader of JRF affiliate Congregation Dorshei Tzedek in West Newton, MA. She has been involved in issues of social and economic justice for many years.

David Stein describes himself as a skeptic with reportedly misanthropic tendencies. He is a freelance editor of Judaica, occasional scholar-in-residence, and leader of High Holy Day services at the Taos Jewish Center. He has completed the "Prejudice Reduction Trainers Training" of the National Coalition Building Institute. His approach to issues of race is informed also by his experience leading an “Unlearning Racism” support group in Re-evaluation Counseling; and to issues of class, by a "Beyond the Taboo" workshop co-led by Christopher Mogil and Felice Yeskel.

Rabbi Elyse Wechterman has served as spiritual leader and educator at Congregation Agudas Achim, a Reconstructionist community in Attleboro, MA, since 2001. Prior to that, Rabbi Wechterman served as a congregational consultant at the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation in Philadelphia. Rabbi Wechterman has authored numerous articles and stories. Most recently articles have appeared in Every Tallit Tells a Tale, (ed. By Debra Smith, 2005) and The Covenant of Circumcision (ed. By Elizabeth Wyner Mark, 2003).