Rabbi Jason Kimelman-Block has been is a leader in progressive Jewish activism for over two decades.  He is the founder and director of the Or Chadash Fellowship in Jewish Transformational Leadership, a program of the Jewish Social Justice Roundtable. He served for nearly 14 years as Washington Director of Bend the Arc Jewish Action as was the Director of the PANIM Institute for Jewish Leadership and Values. In 2022 he was named a “Faith Leader To Watch” by the Center of American Progress. He holds rabbinic ordination from The Jewish Theological Seminary of America and a B.A. in Political Science from Grinnell College.