Flo Low
Flo Low is the founder and Executive Director of BAMAH, a cultural dialogue and exchange organization that works with artists from Israel to design experiences that inspire and connect people and communities across cultures. Under her leadership, the organization has made partnership with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) a core priority. Previously, she served as Associate General Manager of the La Jolla Playhouse; Associate Manager of the Yale School of Drama, and producer of the animated documentary shorts “Four Minutes from the Frontlines,” and of a reading tour of COME MY BELOVED, a play about the shared history and future of Black and Jewish communities in the United States.
Rebecca Cunningham
Rebecca Cunningham is the Founder and CEO of Cordelia Studios, an award-winning kids’ podcast company. She started the kids’ podcast, Girl Tales in 2017 and has since helped build podcasts for Mattel, Realm, National Geographic, Spotify Kids & Family, Sony, America’s Test Kitchen, and tonies. She was honored with the Webby for Best Kids & Family Podcast Episode, a Signal Award, the Kennedy Center’s Next 50 Award, and The Gotham/Variety Audio Honors.
Joshua Sky
Originally from Maui, Hawaii, Joshua Sky is currently a writer for He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and Heavy Metal Illustrated. He has written for Marvel Entertainment, Humanoids, Sci-Futures, Tor.com, SFWA, Assemble Media, Sun-Man, Mattel and Cartoon Network’s Ben 10. He resides in Los Angeles.
Jessica Shaw
Jessica Shaw is a print and audio journalist who was a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly before hosting a pop-culture show for more than a decade on SiriusXM. She has moderated premieres and panels all over the country, from Comic Con to SXSW to 92Y, and has written for Vanity Fair, the Wall Street Journal, and Time Magazine. Her New York Times article, “Recreating a Family’s Lost Holocaust Story, Step by Step” won a Lowell Thomas Award from the Society for American Travel Writers.
David Brown
David Asher Brown is a composer, speaker, and video-maker. His content focuses on breaking down and sharing music from around the world, as well as disability advocacy.
Jamie Denbo
Jamie Denbo is a lifelong comedian and occasional professional screenwriter/producer/playwright/actor. Her newest mission is for her alter ego “Beverly Ginsberg” to bring about generational harmony and global peace through love, laughter, inappropriate behavior and podcasting. (And if you know any single men for her least favorite daughter – the one with the eating problem – let her know!)
Sarah Wildman
Sarah Wildman is the is the author of Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind. She was formerly the global identities and borders writer at Vox, a position she originated. She was the recipient of the German Marshall Fund’s 2010 Peter R. Weitz Prize, awarded for excellence and originality in European coverage. Long a regular contributor to The New York Times, Slate, The Forward, Washingtonian (where she is a contributing editor), and The New Yorker online, among other publications, Wildman has won a number of competitive grants and fellowships: from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting (Jerusalem in 2013 and Paris in 2017); Arthur F. Burns and American Council on Germany fellowships in Berlin; a Mile- na Jesenska Fellowship in Vienna; and a Pew Fellowship in International Journalism in Paris. A former New Republic staffer, Wildman has also worked for The Advocate magazine, American Prospect, and Politics Daily. Wildman was the Barach non-fiction fellow at Wesleyan University’s writing workshop in 2014 and a Dart Center Ochberg fellow (a project of the Columbia School of Journalism) in 2015.
Jacob Stark
Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Jacob S. Stark is a graduate of UCLA Law School and the UCLA Professional Program in Screenwriting. An award-winning writer/producer, Jacob has worked with entertainment companies ranging from Warner Bros to NBCUniversal to Nickelodeon. Most recently, Jacob produced the acclaimed Israeli TV series, The Man Who Wanted to Know Everything, which aired on Kan 11 and is being distributed by Keshet International. He also served as an executive producer on Netflix’s The Great Seduction, which premiered on the streaming network as the #1 non-English film in the world. He is currently writing and producing an animated Christmas feature (like a good Jewish boy) with A+C Studios out of England. He is very proud to have been an inaugural Jewish Writers Institute Fellow.
Tamar Feinkind
Tamar Feinkind was born in Brooklyn, raised in the suburbs of Chicago, and came of age in LA. She is a writer, actor, and reluctant producer. She previously ran a small theater company for emerging writers where she produced five full length plays, including her own, and currently runs a storytelling event in Los Angeles called Mothers Unleashed with the mission of enabling and empowering mothers to give voice to their experiences. Most recently, Tamar was commissioned to write a WWII historical drama about an Armenian Genocide Survivor, and she wrote for the podcast Solve, set to be released in 2020. BS from Northwestern in Theater and pre-med. MFA from Stephens College in Television and Screenwriting. Tamar is represented by Epicenter.
Daniel Housman
Daniel Housman is a screenwriter, and a former journalist, who works in communications, and is active in cultural programming for the Israeli American Council in Los Angeles. After getting his MFA in Filmmaking from Columbia University, he was an adjunct professor of film studies at Adelphi and Fordham Universities in New York, and wrote the screenplay for the 2007 indie film The Treatment. With the IAC, he co-founded the BINA-LA program in 2010, leading its intellectual salons for six years, presenting a myriad of TED-like events with a range of speakers on topics of science and technology, Israeli concerns, social impact ventures and the arts.
He completed the professional fellowship for NewGround: A Muslim-Jewish Partnership for Change in 2014, and directed their annual “Spotlight” event, a night of live storytelling. Daniel was on the steering commit- tee for the UCLA Nazarian Center for Israel Studies’ “Israel in 3D” seminar in May 2015 and designed the concept in 2017, which attracted 300 attendees for a “one-day university.” He was hon- ored to visit Kenya with an Israeli Consulate Mission in 2016, to observe the benefits of Israeli-sponsored development projects with an L.A. delegation. He lives in Los Angeles, where he leads a bi-weekly screenwriting group of 15 professionals.