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

2015

read about Rebecca

Ruth Bar-On

2002

Mary Jo Barrett, MSW

2007

Mackenzie Barth

2018

read about Mackenzie

watch her speech

Dana Bash

2010

Vivian G. Bass*

2007

Mia Bauer

2011

June Beallor

1999

Gail Becker

2013

Miri Ben-Ari

2007

Gisèle Ben-Dor

2000

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Deborah Berebichez

2015

(photo by Bruce Press Photography)

Bonnie Bernstein

2004

Michelle Bernstein

2006

Elisa Spungen Bildner

2007

Wendy Feldman Block

2018

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Jane Ira Bloom

2000

Sara Bloomfield

2000

Dr. Rachel Brem

2002

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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 <i>(Loribeth Weinstein Changemaker Honoree)</i>

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

Jill Basinger

Granada Hills, Calif.

Chief Legal Officer, Discovery Land Company

Eileen Filler-Corn

Springfield, Va.

Representative and Former Speaker, Virginia House of Delegates

Barbara Guterman <i>(Sondra D. Bender Community Leadership Honoree)</i>

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 <i>(Loribeth Weinstein Changemaker Honoree)</i>

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