Abby Levine (she/her)
Abby Levine is the first executive director of the Jewish Social Justice Roundtable. Under her leadership, the Roundtable has grown from 20 to 75 affiliated organizations and from 2 to 10 staff, supported sector-wide efforts on racial inclusion and organizational culture, and organized conferences of hundreds of people from across the network. Previously, Abby led a coalition of 30 local progressive organizations in Columbus, Ohio, with America Votes, served as the founding San Francisco staff member for Progressive Jewish Alliance, now Bend the Arc, and worked in development for DC Vote, which works for DC statehood. 

Abby is a Senior Schusterman Fellow, a Jewish leadership program and serves on the boards of National Religious Partnership on the Environment and Faith in Public Life. She has a BA in political science from Yale University and lives in Washington, DC, with her family.

Bryan Perlmutter (he/him)
Bryan is a national leader in youth engagement holding expertise in organizational development, campaign development, communications, and leadership development. He received his masters in Public Administration, Nonprofit Management, and Policy from NYU Wagner School of Public Service. He is the founder and former Executive Director of Ignite NC/Ignite NC Action Fund as well as part of the founding team of the Southern Vision Alliance. These NC based organizations have become national models for youth engagement including two feature case studies on their best practices for youth civic engagement. Bryan has more than 9 years of grassroots organizing and campaign experience. From 2012-2014 he was the communications and development director for the Youth Organizing Institute – where he was able to help win policy change around school discipline. He was among the first 17 people arrested during the “first Moral Monday” and became a leader in this movement, serving as the youth speaker at many events. In 2015 Bryan served on the campaign team for a successful at large Durham city council campaign, electing the first out LGBTQ POC onto the council. Bryan has also served as consultants for a mayoral campaign and a city council campaign.

Bryan has appeared on Chris Matthews on MSNBC, MTV, and PBS regarding racial justice and voting rights. He was a successful plaintiff in a 2016 lawsuit challenging NC gerrymandering. He was the winner of the 2016 Mario Savio Youth Activist award hosted at Berkeley and was the commencement speaker at the 2014 NC State University graduation for the non-profit studies department. Bryan served for two years on the steering committee of SOLVE (Southern Leaders on Voter Engagement) and on the advisory board of LaunchProgress PAC. He is on the Board for Bull City Safe Schools, Southern Partners Fund, and the Southern Vision Alliance. Bryan is a graduate of NC State University where he received a BS in business administration and a minor in nonprofit studies.

Gamal J. Palmer (he/him)
Gamal J. Palmer is the Founder of Conscious Builders – a global leadership development and diversity and inclusion strategy firm. The pioneer of "Relaxed Leadership," Gamal’s methodology empowers senior leaders to navigate current and future crises, enabling them to lead with intentionality rather than reactivity. 

With nearly two decades of experience, Gamal is a global expert in organizational leadership and inclusion, working at the intersection of DEI, leadership development, and philanthropy. Gamal has worked with hundreds of board members, executives, and CEOs, guiding tens of thousands of team members to improve culture and inclusion. His past clients include DreamWorks, Nike, Nestle, and Universal Studios.  Within multiple sectors, including companies, large-scale non-profits, tech, and entertainment. Equity and belonging instead of inclusion. 

A sought-after international speaker, Gamal leverages his deep understanding of the human condition and his proven multi-step framework to build trust and culture in times of rapid cultural evolution. He’s spoken to audiences for clients including Nespresso, and Intuit and collaborated with Simon Sinek. Gamal has also advised renowned influencers and foundations, including Michael Jordan, Jason Blum of Blumhouse Productions, and The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, helping them create lasting cultural change and achieve strategic breakthroughs.

With experience across 15 African countries, the Middle East, and the U.S., and as a graduate of Yale University and has studied at Oxford, Gamal’s influence is global. He currently sits on national boards, including UpStart Lab, Safety Respect and Equity, and the American Jewish World Service.

Isaac Luria  (he/him)
Isaac Luria is an organizer, resource mobilizer, and movement builder committed to elevating the voices of spirit and moral courage working to advance racial, economic, and environmental justice across all religions, spiritual traditions, and communities. He currently leads NCF’s place-based initiatives. This includes our funding in the Israel-Palestine region and the U.S. South (at geographies soon to be determined).

Isaac joined NCF in 2017 to support grantmaking in the Voice, Creativity, and Culture: Religious Traditions and Contemplative Practices and Israel-Palestine portfolios. He advised donors and foundations on strategic philanthropy supporting progressive social movements advocating for racial justice and inclusive democracy, as well as Jewish social justice, spiritual community innovation, progressive organizing in Israel, countering white nationalism, and building effective cross-sectoral responses to antisemitism and its causes.

He is a Senior Fellow at the Nexus Project, which studies the role of antisemitism and Israel within American politics, at the Knight Program in Media and Religion of the USC Annenberg School of Communication & Journalism.

Jennie Rosenn (she/her)
Rabbi Jennie Rosenn is the Founder & CEO of Dayenu, a new organization mobilizing the American Jewish community to confront the climate crisis with spiritual audacity and bold political action. Rabbi Rosenn has spent more than two decades leading Jewish non-profit organizations, advocating for social change and creating dynamic new initiatives at the heart of the Jewish social justice movement. Before founding Dayenu, she served as vice president for community engagement at HIAS, where she built a robust Jewish movement responding to the global refugee crisis.

Prior to serving at HIAS, Rabbi Rosenn spent nearly a decade growing the Jewish social justice movement as the director of the Jewish Life and Values Program at the Nathan Cummings Foundation. There she built the Jewish Social Justice Roundtable and the Selah Leadership Training Program, while spearheading initiatives to cultivate the environmental movement and women as agents of change in Israel.

Rabbi Rosenn has also served as rabbi at Columbia/Barnard Hillel, a founding board member of AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps and Repair the World, and on the boards of the Jewish Funders Network and New York Jobs with Justice. Rabbi Rosenn was ordained by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion where she was a Wexner Graduate Fellow. She has twice been named one of the Forward’s 50 most influential Jews in America, and in 2022 was named one of the top 22 faith leaders to watch by the Center for American Progress. Rabbi Rosenn lives in New York City with her husband, Rabbi David Rosenn, and their two sons.

Liana Krupp (she/her)
Liana Krupp is the President, Trustee and Board Member of the Krupp Family Foundation and Director of the Phillip & Bernice Krupp Foundation for Jewish Life. Her work focuses on building economic, political and cultural power for people who are most directly affected by white supremacy. Krupp actively organizes with other funders to challenge the status quo of philanthropy. Her work has empowered her to step beyond the traditional role of a grant maker, to become an active ally and advocate to the partners the Foundations support. 

Previous to her career in philanthropy, Krupp worked in the fashion and digital media worlds for 15 years. She serves on the boards of Keshet, Bend the Arc (c3), and Ballroom Marfa. Outside of her work, Krupp is deeply engaged in the arts, serving as a supporter, steward and advocate for socially engaged visual and performative work across North America. Krupp lives between Los Angeles and the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts with her husband and daughter.

Melissa Spatz (she/her)
Melissa Spatz is co-Executive Director of the Trusted Elections Fund (TEF), a pooled fund addressing high risk threats to US democracy. She brings 30 years of experience as a community organizer, non-profit leader, attorney, and funder. Immediately prior to joining TEF in 2022, she served as the Director of the Piper Fund, a pooled fund focused on the right to protest, judicial independence, and combating the influence of money in politics. In addition to her work to build an inclusive democracy, she has addressed a wide range of issues including media justice, housing rights, police accountability, health care, and gender equity. Melissa has founded and co-founded numerous projects and organizations, including the Columbia Journal of Gender & Law, the Women’s Rights Project at Human Rights Watch and the Chicago Freedom School. She holds a BA from Swarthmore College and a JD from Columbia Law School.

Mike Amitay (he/him)
Mike Amitay is the Advocacy Advisor for the Middle East and North Africa at the Open Society Foundations and Open Society Action Fund (c4), based in Washington, DC. For 20 years he has guided advocacy and grantmaking around U.S. foreign policy in the MENA region and supported efforts in the U.S. to combat antisemitism and misuse of false charges against Palestinian rights supporters and Israel critics. From 1996 to 2005 he co-founded and served as Executive Director of the Washington Kurdish Institute (WKI), a non-profit advocacy organization raising awareness of issues affecting Kurdish communities worldwide. From 1987 to 1996, Amitay served as a professional staff member at the US Helsinki Commission, a Congressional body which monitors human rights compliance among participating states of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). In 1995, Amitay founded Human Rights Access (HRX), a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization that promoted human rights and international law through arts and education.

Naomi Orensten (she/her)
Naomi Orensten serves on the board of the Krupp Family Foundation. Naomi has served as Senior Director of Programs and Strategy at the Dorot Foundation and at the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP), where she served as Director of Research and Director of Assessment and Advisory Services. Previously, Naomi worked in nonprofit program and fundraising roles in the fields of education, civil rights, human services, and civic engagement. Naomi is a first-generation college graduate from rural northern Wisconsin. She holds an EdM in Education Policy and Management from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a BA from Brandeis University. She has served on the board of human rights nonprofit B’Tselem USA. Naomi lives in Cambridge, MA with her spouse and two kids. Naomi enjoys experiencing the world from the perspective of her high energy kiddos and borrowing cookbooks from the library to test out new recipes.