Rabbi Elie Kaunfer is President and CEO of the Hadar Institute. Elie has previously worked as a journalist, banker, and corporate fraud investigator. A graduate of Harvard College, he completed his doctorate in liturgy at the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he was also ordained. A Wexner Graduate Fellow and Dorot Fellow, Elie is a co-founder of the independent minyan Kehilat Hadar and has been named multiple times to Newsweek’s list of the top 50 rabbis in America. He was selected as an inaugural AVI CHAI Fellow, and is the author of Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us About Building Vibrant Jewish Communities (Jewish Lights, 2010). He also received semikha from his long-time teacher, Rav Daniel Landes. Elie serves on the board of Natan and on the advisory board of Upstart. 

Aaron Dorfman serves as President of Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah. Prior to his work with the Foundation he spent 10 years as part of the leadership team at American Jewish World Service (AJWS), organizing and mobilizing American Jews to channel their philanthropy, volunteer time, and political power to support global human rights. Before joining AJWS, Aaron spent nine years designing and leading informal education programs at Temple Isaiah, a synagogue in the San Francisco Bay Area. Aaron is a member of the Safety Respect Equity Network Advisory Board. He was also a founding board member of Repair the World, a nonprofit committed to promoting service in the Jewish community, and served on the board of Coney Island Prep, an innovative charter school in South Brooklyn. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Talia Milgrom-Elcott and their daughters Oren, Sela, and Dami.