SPEAKERS

​Speakers offer expertise, guidance, and inspiration and are available for conferences or other events. To arrange for the speaker to come to your synagogue or setting, contact us. 

	Deb Nam-Krane has been an urban gardener and compost enthusiast for over a decade and an activist for over three (somewhere there’s WBZ footage of her from 1989 protesting against fur). Deb is deeply concerned with the connections between climate change, food injustice, and human rights abuses. She has led the JCAN-MA’s Soil Carbon team with the goal of educating people about the connections between agriculture and climate change and what they can do right now to help. Deb is a co-President of JCAN-MA
	Marya Axner was the Regional Director of the New England Jewish Labor Committee (NE JLC) for 12 years and she continues to serve as a Board member. She is currently working to bring groups from different sectors together to discuss and a potential Green New Deal in Massachusetts. She speaks and leads workshops on the topic of anti-Semitism on college campuses, at social justices organizations, and at worker organizations. She has spoken about anti-Semitism on a panel at the national AFL-CIO convention also at a United Steel Workers national conference. Before working at the Jewish Labor Committee, Marya worked in the Education Department of the Jewish Women’s Archive where she wrote curricula about Jewish women’s history. Prior to that, she was the Director of a parents program in the Somerville Public Schools, supporting parents to be involved in their children’s education. She has also worked for the non-profit, Everyday Democracy, which encourages people to have small group discussions that lead to lasting change. Marya can speak about the Green New Deal. She can also lead workshops on how to use listening tools to empower people in the Climate Change movement.
	David Schreiber has been a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®) since 2003, and joined the socially responsible investment community as a Financial Advisor in 2006 after working as an independent registered representative of American General Securities, Inc. As founder and former communications director of NonProfit Net, David united the nonprofit organizations of the Lexington, MA community, and he is an active member of the Climate Action Business Association. Other affiliations include: Temple Shir Tikvah of Winchester, Jewish Climate Action Network, Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action, J Street, Greater Boston Interfaith Organization. He speaks on socially responsible investing and fossil fuel divestment and financial planning.
	JUDITH BLACK is a lively storyteller who entertains with stories, talks, and workshops tying together Jewish traditions and law in support of environmental awareness and climate action, available for a broad variety of ages. She has won many awards including: National Storytelling Network, winner of the Oracle, Circle of Excellence Award, the Brother Blue Award, Cable Ace Award, MassMouth Grand Slam Winner, Storytelling World (multiple awards) New England Emmy (nominated for Outstanding Performance), Wheelock College, Centennial Alumni Award. www.storiesalive.com Judith belongs to 350Mass Statewide Steering Committee, Sustainable Marblehead (founder), JCAN (member), Extinction Rebellion.
	THEA IBERALL, PH.D. has taught writing since 2005. An inductee into the International Educators Hall of Fame, Iberall has had poems published in anthologies and journals including in Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust. Her book of poems, The Sanctuary of Artemis, bridges science and the arts, the heart and the mind. In her novel, The Swallow and the Nightingale, a scientist goes head-to-head with an Orthodox Rabbi about the moral issue of today. Author of three scientific textbooks and a semi-finalist in the 2014 Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook contest, Iberall gives climate change workshops and studied Method Writing with Jack Grapes. Thea offers workshops in the art of storytelling, creative fiction writing, poetry, and finding the deep voice.