Selah Cohorts
(all affiliation information correct as of 2/10)

Cohort 1: East Coast
Cohort 2: East Coast
Cohort 3: Washington DC
Cohort 4: National
Cohort 5: National
Cohort 6: Los Angeles
Cohort 7: Organizational
Cohort 8: Boston

Cohort 1: East Coast

Ronit  Avni, Just Vision
Adam Berman, Isabella Freedman Retreat Center
Aaron Bisman, JDub Records
Suzanne Bring, Jewish Community Action
Jeremy Burton, Jewish Funds for Justice
Stosh Cotler, Jewish Funds for Justice
Sandi Dubowski, Films That Change the World, Trembling Before God, A Jihad for Love
Anna Fink       
Ilanit Gerblich Kalir, AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps
Ari Holtzblatt, Yale Law School
Claudia Horwitz, Stone Circles
Amanda Joseph, Jewish Funds for Justice
Joshua Kern   
Rabbi Jason Kimelman-Block, PANIM: The Institute for Jewish Leadership and Values
Amichai Lau-Lavie, Storahtelling Inc.
Aliza Mazor, Bikkurim
Yavilah McCoy, The Curriculum Initiative (TCI)
Mik Moore, Jewish Funds for Justice
Minna Scherlinder Morse, Scherlinder Communications
Julia Pimsleur, Jewish Funds for Justice
Daniel Rosan, Harvard Business School
Benjamin Ross, Jewish Funds for Justice
Stephanie Ruskay, AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps
Nigel Savage, Hazon
Pella Schafer, California Institute for Integral Studies (CIIS)
Amanda Silver, Jewish Funds for Justice
Rabbi Felicia Sol, Congregation B'nai Jeshurun
Karla Van Praag, Jewish Organizing Initiative

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Cohort 2: East Coast

Robert Bank, Gay Men's Health Crisis, Inc.,  (GMHC)
Whitney Briton
, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation
Eitan Buchvall  
Daniel H. Bush, Yakar
Aaron Dorfman, American Jewish World Service
Jacob Feinspan, Jews United for Justice
Ben Goldfarb, Wellstone Action
Sally Gottesman, Eleemosynary Group
Rebecca Guber, Six Points Fellowship
Adam Gurvitch, New York Immigration Coalition
Hadar Harris, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University Washington College of Law
Rabbi Jill Jacobs, Jewish Funds for Justice
Aliza Kline, Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters Community Mikveh and Education Center
Elana Kogan, Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston
Michelle Lackie, Hillel: the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
Rabbi Sarah Meytin, Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington
Dara Nussbaum, Center for Community Change
Udi Ofer, New York Civil Liberties Union
Amanda Pogany, Solomon Schechter School of Manhattan
Molly Schultz Hafid, Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock
Pamela  Shifman, The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Yolanda Shoshana, Kosher Soul Food
Rabbi Alana Suskin     
K'vod Wieder, Isabella Freedman Retreat Center
Noah T. Winer, MoveOn.org Political Action
Quito Ziegler, Open Society Institute

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Cohort 3: Washington DC

Jonathan Brumer          
Jessica Champagne, Service Employees International Union
Scott Dinsmore
Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb, Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation
Rebecca Epstein, The Management Center
Stephanie Krone Firestone       
Rebecca Fox, National Coalition for LGBT Health
Dan Furmansky, Equality Maryland
Timi Gerson, Fenton Communications
Emily Goodstein, Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
Eli Kasargod-Staub, Service Employees International Union
Robin  Katcher, Management Assistance Group
Rabbi Daniella Kolodny, U.S. Naval Academy
Rob Levy, Brit Tzedek v'Shalom
Sara Rostolder Mandell
Joelle Novey, Co-op America
Stefanie Ostfeld, American Jewish World Service
Nahanni Rous, Just Vision
Lenny Sapozhnikov, The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
Erin Scharff, Service Employees International Union
Abe Schuchman, Housing Unlimited, Inc.
Susanna Shapiro, World Bank
Debbie Stillman
, National Council of Jewish Women
Hadar Susskind
, Jewish Council for Public Affairs
Shana Tabak
, Georgetown Law School
Jevera Temsky, AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps
Rebecca Wasserman, American Rights at Work
Yochanan Zakai, Co-op America

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Cohort 4: National

Nicole Berner, Service Employees International Union
Heather Booth, The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) Health Care Campaign
Dan Cantor, Working Families Party
Diane Cantor   
Sasha Chanoff, Mapendo International
Tamara Cohen, University of Florida
Alan Cohen, UJA-Federation of New York
Russ Finkelstein, Idealist.org/Action Without Borders
Lisa Gossels, Good Egg Productions, Inc.
Rabbi Steve Greenberg, CLAL-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership
Mark Hanis, Genocide Intervention Network
Nancy K. Kaufman, Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston
Idit Klein, Keshet
Frances Kunreuther, Building Movement Project
Shawn Landres, Jewish Jumpstart, Inc.
Lori Leibowitz 
David Lubell
Rachel Micah-Jones, Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc.
Debbie Mukamal, Prisoner Reentry Institute
Jaime Rapaport, Progressive Jewish Alliance
Marilyn Sneiderman, B'nai Brith Youth Organization
Nancy Schwartz Sternoff, Dobkin Family Foundation
Becka Tilsen, Home Alive
Jon Wheeler, DemocracyInAction
Billy Yalowitz, Arts in Community Program, Temple University
Felice Yeskel, Class Action

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Cohort 5: National

Rachel Ackoff, United States Student Association
Eric Altman, GMHC
Elissa Barrett, Bet Tzedek Legal Services & PJA
Catherine Bell, Jewish Organizing Initiative
Beth Benjamin, Ma'yan: The Jewish Women's Project of the JCC in Manhattan
Ben Brandzel   
Suzanne Feinspan, AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps
Vikki Frank, Credit Builders Alliance
Joy Friedman, Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston
Sarah From, Women's Prison Association
Karla Goldman, Jewish Women's Archive/University of Michigan
Eric Greene, American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California
Julie Iny, Oakland Kids First
Alan Kaplan, The New York Immigration Coalition
Carinne Luck, J Street/500 Genders
Larry Marx, Donor Collaborative of Wisconsin
Adina Mermelstein Konikoff, American Jewish World Service
Miriam Messinger, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation
Nommi Nadich, JCRC of Greater Boston
Lenore Palladino, MoveOn
Paula Pearlman, Disability Rights Legal Center
Adina Rosenbaum, Public Citizen
Lacey Schwartz, Gold Glass Productions/ Be'chol Lashon
Sally Scott, Baltimore Neighborhood Collaborative
Lanya Shapiro, Traction
Brent Spodek, AJWS
Ilana Sumka, Encounter
Jos Thalheimer, Slingshot & New York University
Alissa Wise, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice

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Cohort 6: Los Angeles

Naomi Ackerman, Flowers Aren't Enough
Rachel Andres, Jewish World Watch
Joshua Avedon, Jumpstart
Maya Barron, IKAR
Julie Bergman Sender, Balcony Films
Malka Fenyvesi, Progressive Jewish Alliance
Anne Friedrich, Menorah Housing Foundation
Rabbi Dara Frimmer, Temple Isaiah
Sharon Gelman, Artists for a New South Africa
Rabbi Jocee Hudson, Temple Israel of Hollywood
Rabbi Jonathan Klein, Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice
Gary Kosman, America Learns
Laureen Lazarovici, Kasier Permanente Labor Management Partnership
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater, Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center
Scott Minkow, Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles
Tali Pressman, Cornerstone Theater Company
Cecilia Ribakoff, LA Family Housing
David Robinson, University of Arizona
Rabbi Ahud Sela, Sinai Temple
Jonathan Skurnik, Skurnik Productions
Kabira Stokes Hochberg, Young Progressive Majority

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Cohort 7: Organizational

Robert Bank, American Jewish World Service
Elissa Barrett, Progressive Jewish Alliance
Judith Belasco, Hazon
Rachel Biale, Progressive Jewish Alliance
Sarah Church, Progressive Jewish Alliance
Cheryl Cook, Hazon
Maya Crawford, American Jewish World Service
Rich Feczko, Keshet
Joshua Feldman, Progressive Jewish Alliance
Brian Gladstein, Jewish Council on Urban Affairs
Brooke Hirschfelder, American Jewish World Service
Andrea Jacobs, Keshet
Idit Klein, Keshet
Irene Lehrer, Jewish Council on Urban Affairs
Renanit Levy, Hazon
Nancy Lipsey, Hazon
Hadassah Max, American Jewish World Service
Ruth Messinger, American Jewish World Service
Jane Ramsey, Jewish Council on Urban Affairs
Bonnie Rosenbaum, Keshet
Nigel Savage, Hazon
Riva Silverman, American Jewish World Service
Tom Walsh, Jewish Council on Urban Affairs
Samantha Wolthuis, American Jewish World Service

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Cohort 8: Boston

Julie Aronowitz, Jewish Community Relations Council
Ellie Beck,
Joseph Berman, Hebrew College Rabbinical School
Lisa Danetz, Demos: A Network for Ideas & Action
Enid Eckstein, 1199SEIU
Amber Espar, Moving On Center: School for Participatory Arts and Research
Lisa Gallatin, Boston Workmen's Circle
Dan Gelbtuch, Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation
Tiffany Gordon, Hebrew College Rabbinical School
Jessica Greenfield, City Year
Ora Grodsky, Just Works Consulting
Rebecca Herst, Jewish Organizing Initiative
Debbie Katz, Community Catalyst
Emma Kippley-Ogman, Hebrew College Rabbinical School
Max Klau, City Year
Susan Moser, Temple Israel
Rebecca Onie, Project HEALTH
Barbara Penzner, Temple Hillel B'nai Torah
Judith Rosenbaum, Jewish Women's Archive
Brian Rosman, Health Care For All
Dan Rothstein, The Right Question Project
Cindy Rowe, Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action
Jodi Sugerman-Brozan, Alternatives for Community & Environment

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