Solomon F. (he/him) is a 2024-25 Kumi: Foundation participant and a high school sophomore who lives in the Philadelphia suburbs. He is interested in social justice, gardening, journalism, and history. In his free time, he enjoys exploring the beautiful trails in Philly, crocheting, spending time with friends and family, and cooking.

Coley R. (he/him) is a 2024-25 Kumi: Foundation participant and a junior at Providence Day School in Charlotte, NC. He is a Global Studies Diploma candidate, on the leadership team for the Black Student Union, and a Coach’s assistant for his school’s State Championship-winning football program. Coley also loves playing basketball, training in the art of Krav Maga, and watching movies.

Eric Hunker (he/him) is the Director of Music & Aleph Enrichment for BBYO and a Tulsa, OK based singer-songwriter, community-builder, and educator. He has built a career working across denominational lines in pluralistic Jewish spaces. He’s served as faculty for signature Jewish communal gatherings like Hava Nashira, multiple Limmud Festivals, and March of the Living International. In recent years, he’s focused much of his attention on teaching teens to critically examine how gender constructs affect their lives, friendships, and attitudes. He works to help teens understand how to leverage that knowledge to live more intentionally and create spaces that are healthy, safe, welcoming, and foster positive relationships. Eric is working with the BBYO Center for Adolescent Wellness to create curricula around Mindful Masculinity and Supporting Teen Behavior.

David Lieberman (he/him) is an Emmy Award-winning documentary film editor and producer. His credits include: Magic Camp, We Could Be King, Hell Week, Notes from Liberia, Sports Matter: Salmon River Lacrosse, Keepers of the Game, One & Done, Don’t Be Nice, Set Apart-The Jim Abbot Story, Vice, The Art Whisperer and the IMAX short Tiger Tiger. David worked as a Moving Tradition Shevet group leader at New York’s B’nai Jeshurun Synagogue for eight years.

Rabbi Tamara Cohen, Chief of Program & Strategy (she/her/hers), guides and supports Moving Traditions’ strategy, program development and partnership work in collaboration with her fabulous colleagues. Tamara, a proud recipient of a 2023 Covenant Award, knows that Jewishly-engaged, intersectional feminists of all genders can and will change the world. She is especially proud to have initiated Tzelem, Kol Koleinu and Kumi. Tamara was ordained at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and earned an MA in Women’s History from Sarah Lawrence College and a BA in Women’s Studies and English summa cum laude from Barnard College. When Tamara isn’t moving traditions and the Jewish community, she can be found reading and writing poetry, organizing community ritual, walking in Carpenter’s Woods, or having fun with her partner, Dr. Gwynn Kessler and their two children (preferably off screen but also, often, on).

Rabbi Daniel Brenner, Vice President of Education (he/him/his), weaves together ancient wisdom, developmental psychology, social pedagogy, embodied practice, and pop culture to help a diverse network of rabbis, educators, and volunteer leaders who mentor teens. Prior to joining Moving Traditions in 2011, Daniel led educational programs for CLAL-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, Auburn Theological Seminary, and the Birthright Israel Foundation. Brenner is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College; he furthered his studies with Rabbi Yitz Greenberg and Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (z’l), and for the last five years he has been obsessed with studying and teaching shtetl dance. He lives with his beloved, Dr. Lisa Brenner, in Montclair, New Jersey and they are the proud parents of three young adults.