Program Agenda

8:30 a.m. Registration opens / light breakfast

9:00 a.m. Welcome to the 2024 Convening! 

  • Stephanie Garry, Elluminate President
  • Melanie Roth Gorelick, Elluminate, CEO 
  • Naomi Less, Musician/Songwriter/Ritualist/Educator/Feminist

Morning Panel Discussions

Driving Sustainable Feminist Movements For Social Impact Around the World – A presentation by the author of The Everyday Feminist: The Key to Sustainable Social Impact – Driving Movements We Need Now More Than Ever on how everyday feminists worldwide are creating change—and how we can more effectively support their essential efforts.

Featured Speaker: Latanya Mapp, President and CEO of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors 

The State of Women in America Post-Presidential Election – The future of women’s equality and advancement in America is at the center of the 2024 U.S. elections, nationally and locally. We will gather with experts to grapple with the election outcome and set a path forward.

Moderator: Jodi Rudoren, Editor-in-Chief, The Forward

Speakers:

  • Idit Klein, President & CEO, Keshet 
  • Yolanda Savage-Narva, Vice President of REDI Communities of Belonging, Union of Reform Judaism
  • Shira Zemel, Director of Abortion Access, National Council of Jewish Women
  • Ruth Messinger, American Jewish World Service Global Ambassador, Social Justice Consultant and Elluminate Collective Educator

Israeli Women’s Leadership Post-October 7 – A year after the attacks on October 7th, Israeli women continue to speak out against wartime sexual crimes at the international level and work to strengthen women’s leadership and civil society during wartime. We will hear from Israeli women leaders about their lived experiences and where we go from here.

Moderator: Meredith Jacobs, CEO, Jewish Women International

Speakers:

  • Moran Zer Katzenstein, Founder, Bonot Alternativa
  • Tamar Shwartz, CEO, Women’s Spirit
  • Ifat Baron, Founder and Executive Director, itworks

12:00 pm Lunch and Networking

1:00 pm Interactive Workshops:  Jewish Women Leading the Way Forward

Workshop 1: Jewish Women Combating Antisemitism and Hate

Speakers:

  • Julia Jassey, Co-Founder and CEO, Jewish on Campus
  • Allison Tombros Korman, Founder and Executive Director, The Red Tent Fund
  • Alana Zeitchik, Executive Director, The Narrow Bridge Project, Hostage Family Advocate

Workshop 2: Looking at Social Justice through a Jewish & Gender Lens

Moderator: Nancy Kaufman

Speakers:

  • Cheryl Cook, CEO, Avodah
  • Shoshana McKinney Kirya-Ziraba, Executive Director and Co-Founder, Tikvah Chadasha Uganda
  • Daphne Lazar Price, Executive Director, Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance
  • Rabbi Mary Zamore, Executive Director, Women’s Rabbinic Network

Workshop 3: Advocacy for Women’s Equality, Abortion Access, & Against Human Trafficking

Moderator: Ruth Messinger

Speakers:

  • Lori Cohen, CEO, Protect All Children from Trafficking (PACT)
  • Julie F. Kay, Executive Director and Co-Founder, Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine (ACT)
  • Marcy Syms, Chair, ERA Project, Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia University

2:30 pm  Plenary Session on Activism through Art

Art has the power to inspire, engage and activate audiences. Learn about two high-profile examples of how art has made a difference in elevating women’s history and voices to advance women’s equality, combat antisemitism, and elevate women’s history.

Suffs ERA – A fireside chat looking at the creation of  Suffs — the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical — and how it is making an impact on recenter women’s history and the movement women led to gain the rights we have today …  ones we cannot take for granted and must continue to guarantee. 

Speakers:

  • Rachel Sussman, Producer of Suffs
  • Rachel Weinstein, Tony Award-winning Broadway producer and Immediate Past President of Elluminate.

On Being Jewish Now – During a time of growing antisemitism since October 7,  Zibby Owens has created a space for authors and advocates to express how life has changed and the unique culture that brings them together. The voices in the On Being Jewish Now collection unite readers and make everyone feel less alone in unsettling and divisive times.

Speakers:

  • Zibby Owens, Bestselling Author, Founder & CEO, Zibby Media
  • Samantha Ettus, Bestselling Author
  • Jacqueline Friedland, Founding Member, Artists Against Antisemitism

Book Signing of On Being Jewish Now, and Reception – all profits of the book sales go to Artists Against Antisemitism

4:00 p.m. Adjournment 

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