Sara (she/her) is a rabbi, founder, and, at her best, cultivator of ideas and dreams. She is currently leading Beloved, a network of spiritual leaders planting new projects and communities, after her 4 years as spiritual leader of Beloved Brooklyn. Prior to Beloved, Sara was the founder and executive director of ImmerseNYC: A Community Mikveh Project, now part of the JCC Manhattan. Sara recently moved from Brooklyn, NY to Northampton, MA with her husband, 3 kids, and their pandemic puppy.

Email Sara at sara@belovedgarden.org

Keshira (she/they) is a Kohenet (Hebrew Priestess) and a queer Jewish woman of Colour who delights in serving as davennatrix (shlichat tzibbur), lifespiral ceremony/ritual creatrix, liturgist, songstress, teacher, and public speaker. In addition to her work at Beloved, Keshira is the founder/co-leader of Kesher Pittsburgh and Program Director of the ALEPH Kesher Fellowship.

Email Keshira at keshira@belovedgarden.org

Todd (he/him) is an expert in operations, strategy and project management with a burning passion for new modes of Jewish communal life. He is the author of a research paper on 21st century independent Jewish spiritual communities completed in connection with receiving an Executive Master’s in Jewish Professional Studies from the Spertus Institute. Todd serves as a Board member and Treasurer of Lab/Shul. His favorite Jewish sages are Maimonides and Martin Buber.

Email Todd at todd@belovedgarden.org

With a very grateful heart, Molly (she/her) has joined the Beloved Garden team as the new program coordinator. Over the past 4 years, Molly has devoted herself to assisting mostly nonprofit orgs with social media management, web + graphic design, and program coordination. She’s found a particular home working within both Jewish & spiritual spaces and feels happiest when she’s contributing to the continued education and expansion of individuals within these communities (also when eating nachos and going on walks with her dog, Molly Junior). Currently a student at Northeastern Illinois University in pursuit of a graduate degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Molly hopes to grow her offerings to someday include walking with others on their path to healing.

Email Molly at molly@belovedgarden.org

Reed Love(they/them) is a passionate teacher, spiritual counselor, and musician. With over ten years of experience across Jewish movements and interfaith settings, Reed completed their chaplaincy residency at St. Mary's Medical Center where they enjoyed bringing yoga, music, and spirituality practices to the adolescent psychiatric ward. Reed is a hospice chaplain, certified massage therapist and yoga teacher, and has had a spiritual counseling, life cycle facilitation, and Craniosacral Therapy bodywork private practice for the past decade. Reed received their Bachelor of Arts from Brandeis University in Women's and Gender Studies. They studied at Pardes in Jerusalem in a Year Fellowship Program and for two years at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies. Reed completed a Masters in Judaic Studies, specializing in Jewish Values, Ethics and Action from the Academy of Jewish Religion of California. Their master's capstone project "Rainbow Lev, Jewish LGBTQ+ Teen Leadership Program Empowering Through Creative Ritual" received Jewish Innovation grants from Reconstructing Judaism and Clal to launch the first two cohorts in 2020-2021. Reed received the Mintz Family Foundation award for Creative Jewish Education and an award from The Levinson Foundation. They were a recipient of a grant from The Jim Joseph Foundation to launch the community program "We Are Stardust, A LGBTQ+ centered workshop celebrating the wisdom and magic of our bodies through creative practice." Reed currently leads Moving Traditions' National Tzelem Group for Jewish Gender Expansive Youth and serves as an interfaith home hospice chaplain. They live in the San Francisco Bay Area of California with their partner Maggie. 

Rabbi Kerry Chaplin (yes, that is her real name) is a spiritual counselor, ritualist, and teacher helping people live authentically. She practices and preaches an embodied, living spirituality through authentic relationship with one's own mind, body, and spirit.

This authenticity, and sharing it with community, family, and the Divine, deepens connection that helps me, you, and all of us live better. Most recently, Rabbi Kerry was a spiritual counselor at Beit T’Shuvah, where she helped addicts and their families choose life. Before joining Beit T'Shuvah in 2018, Rabbi Kerry was a Rabbinic Fellow with Lab/Shul, a community within the Jewish Emergent Network. At Lab/Shul, she co-created justice- and peace-centered rituals and drew on her community organizing background to empower people to lead and grow the community. Rabbi Kerry has also served college students and other university constituents at Vassar College and Hillel at UCLA.  

She was ordained in 2015 by the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at American Jewish University, and received a B.A. in Religious Studies and an M.A. in Non-Profit Management from Washington University in St. Louis. 

She is an avid Iyengar yoga practitioner and a yoga teacher. She lives in Los Angeles with her wife, Julia, her daughter, Frankie, and their cat Izzy.

Bethie (she/her) is a native of Newton, MA, a graduate of Williams College, and a community-builder at her core. During her studies at HUC-JIR (NY ‘14), Rabbi Miller had the fortune to participate in the Wexner Graduate Fellowship and the Daniel and Bonnie Tisch Rabbinical Fellowship. For five years after ordination, she served as a rabbi at Larchmont Temple with a focus on supporting small groups, connecting young families, and launching a social justice initiative. In 2019, Rabbi Miller founded Sanctuary to weave Jewish community one circle of souls at a time.

Elan (he/him) is committed to leaving behind a world that is more compassionate and connected than the one he found. In pursuit of that commitment he serves as the Executive Vice President at Clal, the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, and the Founding Executive Director of Glean Network, which partners with Columbia Business School. He was ordained in 2012, and earned his MBA that year, as well. A sought-after thought leader, he has delivered keynotes at stages ranging from TEDx to the US Army’s General Officer Convocation, published in The Atlantic, The Guardian, Washington Post, and Religion News Service, has a column for The Wisdom Daily, contributed to Meaning Making – 8 Values That Drive America’s Newest Generations (2020, St. Mary’s Press) and is the co-author of Picking Up the Pieces: Leadership After Empire (2023, Fortress Press).

He also serves as a Founding Partner of Starts With Us, a movement to counteract polarization in America, a Research Advisory Board Member of Springtide Research Institute, which focuses on spirituality, mental health and Gen Z, a founding board member of Beloved Garden, a network of startup Jewish communities, and a member of the Board of Advisors of the Changemaker Initiative. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island with his wife, Lizzie Pollock, and their three children: Micah, Nessa, and Ayla. In his spare time, he finds sanctuary while climbing rock walls around New England and tending to his backyard garden.

David (he/him) has worked as an executive coach, consultant, and facilitator within the Jewish community and beyond for over thirty years. While at Greater Boston’s Jewish Federation, David founded and directed the Leadership Development Institute (LDI), providing consultation, mentoring, and coaching in the areas of group dynamics, leadership, and organizational change.

David’s is passionate about helping people and organizations succeed in not only meeting their goals and objectives, but in doing so in ways that develop and nurture both individuals and the organizational systems in which they work. Utilizing multiple frameworks for self-reflection and interpersonal dynamics, David works to weave differences into fabrics that enrich the organization rather than divide.

He has led workshops and retreats for HUC’s Tisch Fellowship and for the Reconstructionist College. In addition, he has lectured and facilitated workshops at the national conferences of the URJ, NATA/NAASE as well as the Jewish Federations of New York, Baltimore, and Miami.

Among his volunteer activities, David is currently on the board of 2Life Communities and is a supporter and former board member of Mayyim Hayyim, a mikveh rooted in ancient tradition, reinvented to serve the Jewish community of today.