Elevate Women’s Voices, Power, and Impact
Building a Global Network of Jewish Women Leaders
Driving Equity and Social Change
The Global Jewish Women’s Leadership Network aims to strengthen Jewish women’s collective leadership, power, potential, and impact by weaving a global network of Jewish women changemakers dedicated to advancing equity, justice and social change.
This inaugural Global Summit brings Jewish women leaders across our Network together to connect, collaborate, and shape a shared strategy for collective impact with a gender lens.
WHY NOW
We are living in a moment of profound challenge and possibility for Jewish communities and for women’s leadership globally. Today, Jewish women leaders are navigating polarization, threats to democracy, rising antisemitism, eroding rights for women, deepening inequality, and unprecedented change—while continuing to lead with courage, responsibility, and vision.
WHY ATTEND
Jewish women leaders are leading in areas that represent their Jewish values. Now is the time when a Jewish feminist lens and strategy are needed most to reenvision our world. The need for gathering together in community to elevate women’s leadership has never been more urgent.
At the Summit, Participants will..
- Spark collaboration and coalition-building around shared priorities and action areas.
- Amplify women’s thought leadership by strengthening women’s capacity, visibility and voices.
- Develop collective strategy building gender justice, belonging, women’s safety, ending poverty with a gender lens.
- Build meaningful relationships across the Network.
- Respond to pressing issues of the day through a Jewish and gender lens.
LOOK FORWARD TO
INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS
Engage in interactive participatory sessions that share effective practices, envision a future with a gender lens
STRATEGY AND ACTION SESSIONS
Share experience and expertise in developing collective goals and an action strategy for the Network
AFFINITY GROUPS AND GEOGRAPHIC HUBS
Develop partnerships and collaborations with those working on similar issues and in similar areas, grappling with issues through a gender lens
LAUNCH PARTY FOR THE GLOBAL NETWORK
Join us as we toast the launch of the Global Jewish Women’s Leadership Network
Ruth Messinger
Ruth W. Messinger is a social justice activist, advocate and consultant, working primarily in the Jewish and interfaith communities, committed to
teaching about leadership and moral courage. She has worked for Elluminate as its Senior Advisor since 2019.
President and CEO of American Jewish World Service (AJWS) from 1998 to July 2016, she is currently the organization’s Global Ambassador, continuing her crucial work to engage rabbis and other faith leaders to speak out on behalf of oppressed and persecuted communities worldwide.
Before AJWS, Ruth had a 20-year career in public service in New York City as a City Council member and Manhattan Borough President and became the first Democratic Party candidate for Mayor.
She also serves, currently, as a parttime faculty member at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and is a social justice consultant at the JCC
of Manhattan.
Ruth is an active member of her congregation, the Society for the Advancement of Judaism—Judaism that Stands for All, and serves on the
boards of the Interfaith Council of New York and Aegis Trust.
She holds a B.A. from Radcliffe College and an M.S.W. from the University of Oklahoma. She is married to Andrew Lachman and has three children, eight grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.
Heather Booth
Heather Booth is one of the country’s leading strategists about progressive issue campaigns and driving issues in elections. She currently serves as the National Outreach Director for Battleground Alliance, building organization in about 40 marginal congressional districts to win the House and build long term infrastructure.
She started organizing in the civil rights and women’s movements of the 1960s and started JANE, an underground abortion service in 1965, before Roe. She was the founding Director and is now President of the Midwest Academy, training social change leaders and organizers.
She has been working for Jewish Social Justice values (Tikkun Olam), including leading AMOS, a group that had been created to help reinvigorate social justice in the Jewish community.
She has been involved in and managed political and issue campaigns including directing the advocacy arm of the NAACP, working on immigration reform, saving Social Security, directing the campaign for marriage equality around the Supreme Court decision, winning the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, labor rights, health care and tax fairness, among many other issues.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
For more information, email [email protected]
Participation in this gathering is by invitation only.