Jenny Abramson
2018
Stephanie S. Abrutyn, 2008
2008
Vice president and senior counsel, litigation at Home Box Office, Inc., and board member of Media Law Resource Center Institute, a non profit that sponsors First Amendment education and research nationwide.
Linda Addison
2002
Rebecca Alexander
Ruth Bar-On
2002
Mary Jo Barrett, MSW
2007
Mackenzie Barth
Dana Bash
2010
Vivian G. Bass*
2007
Mia Bauer
2011
June Beallor
1999
Gail Becker
2013
Miri Ben-Ari
2007
Gisèle Ben-Dor
2000
(photo by Piethein0, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
Deborah Berebichez
2015
(photo by Bruce Press Photography)
Bonnie Bernstein
2004
Michelle Bernstein
2006
Elisa Spungen Bildner
2007
Wendy Feldman Block
Jane Ira Bloom
2000
Sara Bloomfield
2000
Dr. Rachel Brem
2002
(photo by Nataliebrem, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
Susan Bressler, M.D.
2001
Heidi Hookman Brodsky*
2019
Brenda Brody
2019
(photo by ClintonBPhotography)
Gila Bronner
2003
Rabbi Lizzi Heydemann
Dr. Logan Levkoff
Marlee Matlin
Dr. Jill Saxon
Beth Chartoff Spector
Laurie Strongin
Linda Youngentob
Lisie Gottdenker (Sondra D. Bender Community Leadership Honoree)
Bethesda, Md.
board member of the JCC Association, serving on the Maccabi® committee, governance committee, executive committee, and search committee to choose the new CEO
Jill Aschkenasy
Philadelphia, Pa.
founder and advisory board chair of Our Closet, a volunteer-driven program providing clothing to vulnerable individuals and their families
Kerry Brodie (Loribeth Weinstein Changemaker Honoree)
New York, N.Y.
founder and executive director of Emma's Torch, a nonprofit restaurant, café, and catering business that provides culinary training and job placement services to refugees, asylees, and survivors of human trafficking
Dara Klarfeld
New York, N.Y.
CEO of talent advisory group DRG Search, helping nonprofits find, attract, and nurture innovative, diverse leadership
Robin London
Washington, D.C.
head of worldwide display ad policy at Amazon; co-chair of the Next Gen Board at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Alicia Schuyler Oberman
Chicago, Ill.
founder of Boardified; former foundation director and board member of the Jack Miller Family Foundation and the Jack and Goldie Wolfe Miller Fund
Rae Ringel
Washington, D.C.
certified executive coach, founding president of The Ringel Group, and faculty at the Georgetown University Institute for Transformational Leadership
Dee Sanae
Washington, D.C.
social entrepreneur, community activist, writer, on-camera talent, and music industry veteran; founder of Mosaic Visions, LLC, which supports and strengthens alliances for Jews of Color as well as Black, Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) and their communities.
Michelle Stravitz
Fairfax, Va.
CEO of 2Unstoppable, a national nonprofit that inspires and supports exercise among women with a cancer diagnosis
Ruth Zukerman
New York, N.Y.
co-founder of SoulCycle and Flywheel; author of RIDING HIGH: How I Kissed SoulCycle Goodbye, Co-Founded Flywheel and Built the Life I Always Wanted
Barbara Guterman (Sondra D. Bender Community Leadership Honoree)
Potomac, Md.
Entrepreneur; Women’s Mentor; Board Member of KEEN Greater DC; Entrepreneur-in-Residence at The Bullis School; President of Congregation Bna’i Tzedek
Tiffany Harris
Washington, D.C.
Chief Program Officer, Moishe House; Founding Member, Shalom Corps (Peace Corps’ Jewish Employee Resource Group) and Peace Corps Diversity Board
Rabbi Tamar Manasseh (Loribeth Weinstein Changemaker Honoree)
Chicago, Ill.
Rabbi, Anti-Gun Violence Activist, and Community Leader; Founder of MASK, Mothers and Men Against Senseless Killings, and Shachar, a bridge between Black Jews, the larger American Jewish community, and African Americans
Samantha Saperstein
Westchester, N.Y.
Managing Director, Global Head of Women on the Move Center of Excellence at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Jennie Schaff
Rochester, N.Y.
CEO of the Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation; Former CEO of Jewish Family Services of Rochester
Natalie Silverstein
New York, N.Y.
Author of Simple Acts: The Busy Family’s Guide to Giving Back and Simple Acts: The Busy Teen’s Guide to Making a Difference; Host of the Simple Acts, Big Impact: Celebrating Teen Changemakers Podcast; New York Coordinator of Doing Good Together