Rabbi Leah Novick is the author of On the Wings of Shekhinah: Re-Discovering Judaism’s Divine Feminine. Shekhinah is a form of the divine feminine found in Judaism. She is Jewish renewal movement leader and lives in the Monterey, Calif., area.

Karen Tate is an author, speaker, teacher, social justice activist and host of Voices of the Sacred Feminine Radio.  She is a member of the Fellowship of Isis and lives in Venice Beach, Calif. She can discuss the divine feminine and contemporary goddess worship.

Laura Paskell-Brown is a member of the Young Leaders Council at Women of Spirit and Faith. She blends social activism with spirituality and created a women’s circle at Occupy Wall Street. She can address issues involving women’s spirituality, the spirituality of birth and motherhood, and women’s sacred spaces. She is a birth doula in San […]

Lynn Gottlieb is a rabbi and a feminist, as well as a “storyteller, percussionist, peace educator, writer, ceremonialist, community activist and clown.” She has participated in Jewitch meetings and retreats. Gottlieb is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The Women’s Spirituality Forum in San Francisco is a nonprofit group focused on Earth-based and Dianic religions and spiritualities and women. Contact via founder Z Budapest.

Zsuzsanna Budapest — more commonly known as Z Budapest — is one of the founders of the revival of Earth-based, women-focused spirituality movement of the 1960s and 1970s. She is the author of more than a dozen books on women’s spirituality and Earth-based religions and teaches in San Francisco.

Arisika Razak is a professor of philosophy, religion and women’s spirituality at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where she focuses on the lives and spirituality of indigent women and women of color. She is a practitioner of Earth-based spirituality.

Mara Lynn Keller is a professor of women’s spirituality at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. She is an expert on goddesses — both ancient and new — and says she is “interested in promoting dialogue between Goddess people and God people.”

Alka Arora is an assistant professor in women’s spirituality at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. She is an expert on women and spiritual-based activism and Buddhism.