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 team as the new program coordinator. Over the past 4 years, Molly has devoted herself to assisting mostly nonprofit organizations with 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 helping others along their paths to healing.

Email Molly at molly@belovedgarden.org

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.

Rabbi Dr. Yechiel Hoffman has enriched the Jewish journeys of children and adults in Los Angeles and around the world in synagogues, schools and community organizations. Yechiel guides organizations to foster creativity, holistic wellbeing and greater growth and performance, and promotes a relational approach to collective inquiry, collaboration, and experimentation. Yechiel raises the bar for the collaboration and growth for Jewish professionals in co-founding JedLab and the Independent Journeyers networks. In addition to serving on Beloved's board, Yechiel serves on the boards of the Jewish Studio Project, Gender Equity in Hiring Project, and R&R: The Rest of our Lives, transforming the broader Jewish community through innovative approaches to leadership development, social justice, creativity and human wellbeing. Yechiel received the prestigious Pomegranate Prize from the Covenant Foundation and earned a Doctorate in Education from Northeastern University.