Fr. Bruce R. Bramlett is an ordained Episcopal priest and a Christian scholar. He did his graduate work at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley where he focused his work in the areas of Jewish and Holocaust Studies, Jewish/Christian Relations, the History of Christian Thought and Theological Ethics. He has taught at the University of the Pacific, St. Mary's College, the University of San Francisco as well as Lehrhaus Judaica.and other adult education programs. He has also been a pastor in several congregations for twenty five years as well as involved in a number of social advocacy projects including work on Death Row at San Quentin State prison. He has lectured widely in the areas of Jewish-Christian relations and Post Holocaust Christian theology.

Cherie Brown is the Executive Director of the National Coalition Building Institute, (www.ncbi.org) a non-profit agency that does prejudice reduction work on racism, anti-Semitism and gay oppression, among others. She is a member of the Board of Brit Tzedek v'Shalom. She has presented workshops on Jewish issues and anti-Jewish oppression for Jews and Allies in countries around the world for 35 years.

Julia Caplan is co-founder of A Jewish Voice for Peace, former director of Jewish Youth for Community Action, and currently raises money for reproductive rights in North America. She served on the TODOS Board for four years. She has been leading anti-oppression work and trainings since she was a teenager, and is committed to ending racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, class oppression, and adultism.

Pandoura Carpenter has been a civil rights activist for over 30 years and is a writer and a poet.

David J. Cooper is the spiritual leader of Kehilla Community Synagogue in Berkely, Calif.

Rick Davis is a non-Radical activist who spent too many years in the corporate world before turning to his passion, tikkun olam or repairing the world". In a second agenda, he is committed to enlightening those willing to hear and listen about the political and social situation in Israel and Palestine. His goal is to ensure a fair and balanced picture is portrayed to the world so they can draw their own conclusions without being tainted by either propaganda machines. Rick is British by birth and American by adoption. He recently spent 5 years in Romania followed by two years in the UK, where he actively worked to balance the media on the Israel Palestinian conflict. The well-documented bias in the media, together with first hand experience of anti-Semitism, and a constant diet of America bashing that long preceded intervention in Iraq, drove him back stateside in 2002.

Sharon Ellison, M.S.,is an internationally recognized communication consultant, award winning speaker and the author of Taking the War Our of Our Words. Sharon has created a cutting edge paradigm for communication called Powerful, Non-Defensive Communication and was a nominee for the Leadership for a Changing World Award, sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the Advocacy Institute. Her clients include The United States Justice Department, Hewlett Packard, and Stanford University Lucille Packard Children's Hospital. She has been a speaker for The Society for Intercultural Training, Education and Research, The Human Rights Coalition, and The Centre for Dispute Resolution in London, England. Sharon is dedicated to community building and does many workshops for organizations working to create justice, social change, and peace.

Saundra Feher, M.S., has completed much postgraduate work in the fields of organizational and clinical psychology. She also has extensive experience in the clinical application of individual and organizational psychology.

Amy J. Gup is a Jewish Lesbian Feminist who has been active over the years in the areas of disability rights, challenging anti-Semitism and racism, and working to end the abuse of women and children. She believes that the more we learn to build alliances, listen to one another, and find our places of commonality across difference, the stronger we will become in bringing about positive change and healing the world.

Eryn J. Kalish, M. C., Board President of The Compassionate Listening Project (TCLP), is also President of Workplace Connections, organizational consultants with over twenty years of experience providing integral conflict resolution tools to business, community and nonprofit groups. Eryn specializes in facilitating partnerships and collaborations when conflict is particularly intense. She has presented training for trainers in conflict resolution in the United States and Russia, and is the founder of The Blessings Hands Project which raises money to help the children of war in Sierra Leone. Eryn is a certified trainer with TCLP and is part of TCLP's training team in Israel and Palestine.

Swan Keyes with a background in expressive arts therapy, Swan Keyes is a Jewish woman who develops and facilitates programs addressing racism, sexism, heterosexism and class oppression. She teaches with The UNtraining, a program for untraining white liberal racism, and serves as consultant with the Transcultural Education for Social Change collective. She practices therapy with Living Arts Counseling Center and serves as Development Director for Fred Finch Youth Center.

The Compassionate Listening Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering individuals to heal polarization and build bridges between people, communities and nations in conflict. This project has grown out of 14 years of conflict resolution work on the ground in Israel and Palestine. We have ushered hundreds of American citizens very deeply into both societies to listen to the suffering and grievances of people on all sides of the conflict, and help bring the humanity of each side to the other.

Our work has now expanded to include: Compassionate Listening training for Israelis and Palestinians, German-Jewish Compassionate Listening, citizen delegations to Syria and Lebanon, and workshops world-wide in Compassionate Listening, including advanced training for facilitators.

TCLP has published a guidebook "Listening with the Heart" and produced two documentaries: "Children of Abraham" and "Crossing the Lines - Palestinians and Israelis speak with The Compassionate Listening Project". www.compassionatelistening.org

 Paul Kivel is an internationally recognized violence prevention educator and author who has conducted workshops on racism, violence prevention, and social justice for teens and adults for over 25 years. He is the author of Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Social Justice, and Boys Will Be Men. Paul's book, You Call This A Democracy: A Guide to the Ruling Class is due out in June.

Victor Lewis is Minister of Community Life at the First Congregational Church of Oakland (Calif.) He is widely acclaimed as one of the key players in "The Color of Fear," which received the Golden Apple award for "Best Social Studies Documentary of 1995," by the National Educational Media Association. In 1994 he was the recipient of the National Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS) Ida B. Wells award "in recognition of his achievements and tireless devotion on behalf of the effort to eliminate racism in our society." As a senior trainer with the Oakland Men's Project (OMP), one of the nation's premier violence prevention and diversity training institutes, he is spearheading a state-wide initiative that is developing and networking violence prevention and diversity training teams in 20 California communities. The California project is based on a program that he developed and managed for the state of Ohio between 1991-1993.

La Verne Baker Leyva is President of the National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI) in Monterey County and leads the NCBI African Heritage Constituency Group. As a senior trainer and mentor, she specializes in diversity awareness, team building and inter-group conflict resolution and has led training in the Bay area for non-Jewish allies on recognizing and combating anti-Semitism. She has consulted to public and non-profit organizations, universities, and corporations throughout California, and trained trainers to lead diversity work.

Rabbi Jane Rachel Litman has consulted with the National Council of Churches, the Metropolitan Community Church and numerous Jewish institutions on religious education for alternative families including glbt, interfaith, multiracial and single parent families. She is the rabbi educator at Congregation Beth El in Berkeley; prior to that she served gay outreach congregations Kol Simcha and Shaar Zahav for eight years. She has taught Religious and Women's Studies at California State University Northridge and Loyola Marymount College, the co-editor of Lifecycles 2, and a regular columnist for Jewish and gender issues for Beliefnet.com and AskaRabbi@aol.com

Kenji Liu facilitates anti-oppression workshops and uses the arts for multicultural alliance-building. He has presented in settings ranging from the University of Wisconsin to Tassajara Zen Monastery, to People's Grocery in Oakland. A lifelong artist and activist, Kenji is a poet, a founding member of the Chinese American activist group Chin Jurn Wor Ping (CJWP), and currently serves on the board of JustAct: Youth Action for Global Justice. He is a doctoral student in Social and Cultural Anthropology at California Institute of Integral Studies.

Pati McDermott is a long-time political activist; a mover and a shaker in the peace and environmental movements since the 60s. More recently her activism focuses on personal oppression issues and ally-building, particularly around the issue of racism. She brings her vision of healing, wholeness and respect for all into her work as a counselor and consultant. Pati has a private practice in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Hypnotherapy. She can be reached at 877-881-4348 or through her web site at www.nlpPati.com.

Bob Meola has been a radical involved in struggles for peace and justice since the 60s. He has worked to end the U.S. wars in Vietnam, Central America, etc. , and has been an organizer and peace and anti-draft and anti-nuclear activist. He is a Gandhian pacifist, has been a non-violence trainer and has committed numerous acts of civil disobedience. He realized he was an anarchist when he realized his communist comrades had forgotten about Marx's withering away of the state. Bob was a founder of Southern California War Resisters' League and Southern California War Tax Resistance. He is a long-time member of WRL and of the National Lawyers Guild. He believes in the right of the state of Israel to exist and is therefore a Zionist and therefore feels isolated and alienated from the current left. Bob has been a draft counselor, veterans' counselor and volunteer on the G.I. Rights Hotline. He has a B.A. from James Madison College at Michigan State University and a J.D. from New College of California School of Law.

Richard Moss has been working with the National Coalition Building Institute for the last 10 years as a diversity trainer in local high schools and is the Jewish Heritage constituency leader for the Monterey County chapter. He is, also, the co-founder and co-leader of the Monterey County Citizens for Mid-East Peace, a local grassroots inter-faith group working to affect. policy in the Middle East.

He recent traveled to the Middle East with the Fellowship of Reconciliation as they visited the West Bank, Gaza, Jerusalem and Israel. There he met with community and peace activists, with a focus on women's groups, as they addressed the issues surrounding the crises in the Middle East.

Nell Myhand has been working on issues of family and community violence for over 20 years. Myhand has worked with thousands of young people and adults in the development of critical thinking and action plans on social justice issues. Myhand co-authored Young Women's Lives, and Making Allies, Making Friends. She is currently writing a book about women's cross class alliance building and strategies for economic justice.

Sue Parris is Chapter Director for the National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI) in Monterey County, and Regional Director for NCBI in the Western U.S. With 17 years experience as a consultant and facilitator, specializing in multicultural issues and prevention of workplace discrimination, she has conducted assessments, training and team building for public, private and non-profit organizations throughout the U.S. Sue has led training in the Bay area for non-Jewish allies on recognizing and combating anti-Semitism.

Mitchell Plitnick is the Policy and Education Director of Jewish Voice for Peace. Raised Orthodox, he spent over 20 years studying Jewish and Israeli history. His articles have appeared in publications across the U.S. and around the world.

 Penny Rosenwasser is completing her doctoral dissertation on the psychological effects of anti-semitism on Jews. She published "Voices From a 'Promised Land': Palestinian and Israeli Peace Activists Speak Their Hearts," (Curbstone Press, 1992) and has also been published in the San Francisco Chroniicle, Tikkun, Bridges, Lilith, the Feminist Studies Quarterly, and off our backs feminist newsjournal. She is a member of Kehilla Synagogue and is also a member of the Coordinating Committee of Jewish Voice for Peace.

Ralph Seliger is the editor of "Israel Horizons," Israel Horizons is accessible online at the publication of Meretz USA, a left-Zionist organization associated with the Israeli Meretz party (now called Yahad: the Social-Democratic Israel Party). His writings have also appeared in such publications as In These Times, the San Jose Metro, The Forward, and Jewish Currents. Ralph was associated with the Socialist Party USA, the Social Democrats USA and the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee when the neo-conservative movement began to take shape from within the social-democratic left and the Democratic Party in the late '60s and early '70s.

Lynne Sexton has been a facilitator for the National Coalition Building Institute since 1994 and currently leads the NCBI Women's Constituency and White Allies Eliminating Racism groups in Monterey. She is a member and co-founder of the Monterey County Citizens for Middle East Peace, a grassroots peace & justice group, where she has facilitated workshops on Anti-Semitism for peace activists. She has been interested in these issues since studying at the American University of Beirut in the early 1970's.

Richard Shapiro directs the graduate program in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the California Institute of Integral Studies - a program committed to linking scholarship and activism to facilitate critical self-reflection, local and global alliance building, multicultural diversity, social and environmental justice, and the decolonization of imaginations and communities. He is a second generation American Jew who travels regularly to India in support of the work of Angana Chatterji, his life partner.

Dr. Irwin Sperber was one of the founders of the Union of Radical Sociologists and its radical journal, The Insurgent Sociologist, during his graduate work at UC Berkeley in the 1960's. He is an active participant in several environmental organizations in New York's mid-Hudson Valley. He is an associate professor in the Sociology Department at SUNY New Paltz, and an editor of Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, a radical and international journal of ecology. He has a keen interest in the historical and political dimensions of Marxism.

Gina Waldman fled Libya in 1967- one of 38,000 Jews ethnically cleansed from Libya and one of nearly one million Jews who fled their homes in the Arab world. She is the co-founder of Jimena: Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and No. Africa". Waldman is a Human rights activist. Her work has taken from the Former Soviet Union to Afghanistan and Cuba where she took humanitarian aid and medicine at her own personal risk. Waldman has been a human rights champion for over 30 years. "I strongly believe that human rights have no borders and no skin color," said Waldman "As a Jew, I have worked to resettle Bosnian Muslims, just like I have smuggled medicine to needy Cubans ".

Waldman is a recipient of the prestigious Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award and has gained national recognition for her work on behalf of human rights all over the world. Here is what the Muslim Student Assoc. of the University of Minnesota said, ". . .we'll work side by side to end hatred and oppression and bring a rise to love and kindness. Inshallah."

Akaya Windwood is an executive leadership coach and organizational development consultant, Akaya Windwood has spent 40 years working for social justice. She is founder of in common, a multicultural consultation firm, and co-founder of the Women's National Leadership Project. Her work has included consultation to non-profit, school, government, and private sector organizations. Akaya has served on the Alameda County Human Relations Commission, and the Alameda County Hate Violence Prevention Task Force. She volunteers by sitting on various Boards, caring for animals in shelter, and providing respite care for hospice families. A long-time resident of the Bay Area, she loves the richness of living and working with diversity, and is committed to joy, laughter and healthy, safe communities.

Natalie Zeituny was born in Beirut, Lebanon to an indigenous Jewish Middle Eastern family. In 1975 her family fled their home losing their rich culture, heritage, property and citizenship due to increasing violence and ongoing expulsion of Jews from Arab countries. Natalie lived in Israel for over 20 years, during which she was an honor graduate of the "Technion" Engineering University and started her MBA Program in Ben-Gurion University and served in the Israel Defense Forces in the Intelligence Unit. Natalie is fluent in Arabic, Hebrew and English and is active in the San Francisco Bay Area, California dedicated to advancing awareness and bridging the gap between the Arab and the Jewish worlds. She has been living in San Francisco since 1998, successfully managing her business consulting company.

Natalie recounts the compelling story of her family's flight from Lebanon and shares the history and culture of the Jews of Lebanon which are now extinct. Natalie is an enthusiastic and dynamic speaker who engages her audience.

Natalie is a board member of Jimena - Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa www.jimena-justice.org Jimena is dedicated to educate the public about the history of the Jewish refugees from the Arab countries.