Rabbi Dr. Benji Levy is a founder of Israel Impact Partners, which works with funders to accelerate the growth of nonprofits and Keshev, providing mental health support, therapy, and education. Rabbi Benji served as CEO of Mosaic United, a historic joint venture partnership between Israel and global Jewry to strengthen Jewish identity and connections to Israel for youth around the world. Previously he served as the dean of Moriah College in Sydney, Australia, one of the largest Jewish schools in the world.

Rabbi Benji was named as one of three top global changemakers working for Diaspora Jewry by the Israeli newspaper Makor Rishon, and awarded Educator of the Year by JNF for his service to the Australian Jewish community. He received an Australian Postgraduate Award for his research in Jewish identity; published Covenant and the Jewish Conversion Question: Extending the Thought of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (Palgrave Macmillan) and An Oasis In Time: Seven Thoughts for the Seventh Day (Maggid), and shares many ideas through multiple mediums including www.RabbiBenji.com and @RabbiBenji. He serves as a reservist in the Spokesperson Unit of the Israel Defense Forces.

Rabbi Benji has a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Sydney and received rabbinic ordination following his study at Yeshivat Har Etzion. He was awarded first-class honors in Jewish civilization thought and culture; he has a BA in media and communications from the University of Sydney and an education degree from Herzog College, and he completed the Lookstein Center Principals’ Program at Bar-Ilan University.

Dr. Erica Brown is the vice provost for values and leadership at Yeshiva University and the founding director of its Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks-Herenstein Center for Values and Leadership. She previously served as the director of the Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and Leadership and as an associate professor of curriculum and pedagogy at the George Washington University. Erica is the author of twelve books on leadership, the Hebrew Bible, and spirituality. Her latest book, Esther: Power, Fate and Fragility in Exile (Maggid), was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Her book Ecclesiastes and the Search for Meaning is forthcoming from Maggid.

Erica has a daily podcast, “Take Your Soul to Work.” and is the author of Jonah: The Reluctant Prophet (Maggid), Take Your Soul to Work: 365 Meditations on Every Day Leadership (Simon and Schuster), and Happier Endings: A Meditation on Life and Death (Simon and Schuster), which won the Wilbur Award and Nautilus Award for spiritual writing. Her previous books include Inspired Jewish Leadership, which was a National Jewish Book Award finalist; Spiritual Boredom, and Confronting Scandal (all from Jewish Lights). She co-authored The Case for Jewish Peoplehood (Jewish Lights). She also wrote Seder Talk: A Conversational Haggada, Leadership in the Wilderness, In the Narrow Places, and Return: Daily Inspiration for the Days of Awe (all from OU/Koren). She is currently working on a commentary on Ecclesiastes (Maggid).

She has been published in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Tablet, First Things, and The Jewish Review of Books, and she wrote a monthly column for the New York Jewish Week for several years. She has blogged for Psychology Today, Newsweek/Washington Post’s “On Faith,” and JTA, and tweeted on one page of Talmud study a day at @DrEricaBrown for the seven-and-a-half-year cycle.

She has master’s degrees from the Institute of Education (University of London), Jews’ College (University of London), and Harvard University, and a PhD from Baltimore Hebrew University. Erica was a Jerusalem Fellow, is a faculty member of the Wexner Foundation, an Avi Chai Fellow, and the recipient of the 2009 Covenant Award for her work in education. She was the scholar-in-residence at the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington and the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston, and the community scholar for the Jewish Center of New York. She currently serves as a community scholar for Congregation Etz Chaim in Livingston, New Jersey.