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Kate Mishkin (she/her) is an LA-based writer and podcast producer. Her reporting has taken her from Charleston, West Virginia, where she was an investigative reporter, to Los Angeles, where she's made chart-topping narrative podcasts. She's the producer and host of Shofar, So Good!, originally developed in the Jewish Writers Institute Digital Storyteller's Lab and is now being produced in partnership with My Jewish Learning. She's equally interested in telling stories about cold cases as she is about light-hearted, experimental projects about Jewish ritual — both, she believes, have the potential to spark impact and empathy.ere

Based in Brooklyn, Liz Alpern (she/her) is passionate about reimagining tradition and bringing people together. Liz co-hosts the food advice podcast Meet Me at the Deli with Jeffrey Yoskowitz, with whom she co-founded The Gefilteria and co-authored The Gefilte Manifesto: New Recipes for Old World Jewish Foods. She is also the creator of Queer Soup Night, a global event series highlighting the talent of queer chefs and raising tens of thousands of dollars for locally-based social justice organizations.

Liz received her MBA from Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business and has been featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List, the Forward 50 and and The Cherry Bombe 100. She is committed to seeing a more just and equitable food system for all so when she’s not in the kitchen with The Gefilteria, she’s consulting for national non-profit organization, Fair Food Network.

Jeffrey Yoskowitz (he/him) is a recognized thought leader in Jewish food. He co-hosts the food advice podcast Meet Me at the Deli with Liz Alpern, with whom he co-founded The Gefilteria, a culinary venture that reimagines Ashkenazi Jewish cooking. For the past decade and a half, The Gefilteria has organized and supported diverse voices in Jewish food through collaborative programs, public events, and community-building initiatives. Jeffrey is also co-author of the award-winning cookbook The Gefilte Manifesto: New Recipes for Old World Jewish Foods. 

Jeffrey has taught courses on Jewish food at Brandeis University and City College of New York, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and other publications. He was featured on Hulu’s Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi and was tapped to represent Jewish food culture at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival.

He continues to teach, cook, pickle, and speak with communities across the globe about the roots and evolution of Ashkenazi cuisine.

Neil Spears (he/him) is an educator, community builder, and pilot who is fascinated by the ways Jewish stories, wisdom, and practices help us cultivate lives of meaning and purpose. Raised in a mixed-heritage family in a city without many Jews, he taught at a public middle school in Los Angeles before moving into education equity and Jewish communal life, including serving as executive director of the Silverlake Independent Jewish Community Center on LA's east side. Today, Neil is a commercial pilot and flight instructor. Ask him about queer family making, Shabbat, or whatever nerdy YouTube rabbit hole he's currently exploring.