Howard Blas, Director of the Tikvah Program at Camp Ramah in New England, an overnight camp program for children with developmental disabilities. He also teaches Jewish Studies to children with special needs, and he prepares them for bar and bat mitzvah. Howard has Masters Degrees from the Columbia University School of Social Work and from the Bank Street College of Education and he is a published writer in local, national and international media including the Jerusalem Post and The New York Times.

Ellen Dietrick, Director of the Synagogue Early Childhood Program in Congregation Beth Israel in Charlottesville, Virginia. She is on the board of URJ's early childhood program, has been a Grinspoon/Steinhardt award winner, a JECEI (Jewish Early Childhood Education Initiative) Fellow and an alumna of the year from UVA's Curry School of Education, where she completed her Masters Degree.

Robyn Faintich, Executive Director of the Florence Melton Communiteen High School, a national education initiative.

Jonathan Fass, Director, Department of Jewish Living and Learning and Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Living and Learning at the Jewish Community Center in Houston, TX. He holds a Masters Degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary and has participated in Hebrew University's Senior Educators Program.

Barry Gruber, Director of Education, Youth, and Programming at Temple Beth El in Rochester, NY, a Framework of Excellence School of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. He also serves as Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee of the Board of Directors of the Jewish Educators Assembly (JEA), the national professional organization for Conservative Directors of Education. He is a founding member of NAACHHS (North American Association of Community Hebrew High Schools), and serves on their conference planning committee.

Lillian Howard, Head of School at Kehillah Jewish High School in Palo Alto, CA. A classicist by training, she has a Masters in Classical Languages and Literature from the University of Texas in Austin - Lillian has impacted on community day schools as Assistant Head of School at the Jess Schwartz Jewish Community High School in Phoenix, as the Founding Head of School at the Shoshana Cardin School in Baltimore and as the Head of School in her present position. She has participated in professional training at PEJE, at Harvard University's Principal's Center and at the Jewish Theological Seminary.

Nehemia Ichilov, better known as “Nammie”, is the Head of the Lower & Middle School for the Jess Schwartz Jewish Community Day School. Nammie is in his twenty-second year as a Jewish educator, having held almost every available formal and informal educator role in the field; classroom teacher, camp counselor, synagogue administrator, curriculum coordinator, development director, family educator, and much, much more. Since coming to Scottsdale, AZ, nammie has focused his attention on advancing day school education in the valley and in particular has helped facilitate the merger of the former K-8 King David School with the 9-12 Jess Schwartz College Prep.

Nammie has also authored a chapter in the second edition of “What We NOW Know About Jewish Education” and his research for his EdS was on using Program Theory to better understand the Jewish educational synagogue school experience. Nammie is a graduate of Rutgers University, JTS, and the University of Central Florida.

Eliezer Jones, Director of Student Life at Robert M. Beren Academy in Houston, TX. He has a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology in Los Angeles.

Rachel Meytin, Vice President for programs at PANIM: The Institute for Jewish Leadership and Values, which will become a division of BBYO this year.

Lisa Micley, North American School Liaison for TaL AM  and Director of Education for BabagaNewz.com . She has a Masters degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education  and has participated in Hebrew University's Senior Educators program.

Elana Rivel, Director of Synagogue Partnerships at Jewish Outreach Partnership in Philadelphia.

Sid Singer, Director of Informal Education Services at the Community Foundation for Jewish Education of Metropolitan Chicago.

Joy Wasserman, National Director of Alumni Affairs at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion whose mission includes creating and facilitating alumni networks and communities of practice and Continuing Education programs for 3,500 alumni of HUC-JIR.