Our Team
Lisa Colton is a serial entrepreneur who enjoys finding opportunities and bringing ideas to life. In addition to producing this festival, she is the Co-Executive Producer of The Great Big Jewish Food Fest, and Founder and President of Darim Online and Darim Consulting. She works with Jewish organizations, nonprofits and social causes on business strategy, new models of organizing and communications. She is the co-founder of The Urgency of Now: Seattle’s Jewish Climate Festival, and is installing solar panels on her home!
Libba Cooper is the National Programs Coordinator at Hazon providing support for the Hazon Seal of Sustainability program and logistical support for events. She has a background in event planning and management and has worked for a variety of nonprofits within the community action network, higher education, and museum industry. Libba is the mastermind behind so many Big Bold Jewish Climate Fest logistics!
Phil Aroneanu is the Chief Strategy Officer for Dayenu. He is an organizer and political strategist. He co-founded 350.org, where he helped launch and run dozens of efforts, including the campaign against the Keystone XL Tar Sands pipeline, the Fossil Fuel Divestment campaign, and the People's Climate March. He directed Bernie Sanders’ 2016 campaign in New York, helped mobilize millions to the streets and the ballot box after the 2016 elections, and directed digital organizing at the American Civil Liberties Union. Phil has also consulted and managed a variety of global, national, and state-level electoral and advocacy efforts.
Shuli Karkowsky is the Executive Vice President at Hazon. Prior to joining the Jewish non-profit world, Shuli was an effective but deeply unhappy corporate litigator. Shuli graduated from Harvard Law School in 2009, and from the University of Maryland in 2006. She lives in Westchester with her husband and three delightful children.
MIRIAM BROSSEAU is a nonprofit veteran, organizational strategist, and founder of Tiny Windows Consulting. “Communication is an act of creation,” says Miriam. “How we listen to, tell, and elicit stories is what makes our organizations stronger.” At the intersection of programming and digital comms, she helps us bring the mission of the Big Bold Jewish Climate Fest to life with community-focused strategies that tell great stories, connect people to one another, and build the momentum we all need to grow and thrive.
Vicki Kaplan is the Director of Organizing at Dayenu. She is an organizer, activist, and campaigner committed to movement-building and anti-racism. She was Organizing Director and campaigner at MoveOn from 2012-2020, and prior to that worked with communities around the country to shut down dirty coal plants, was a labor and human rights organizer in the midwest, and campaigned to protect water as a public resource. Her organizing work has been featured in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times.
Ingrid Elliott is a partner and board member of Seattle’s Kavana Cooperative, as well as a Fulbright Scholar with a doctorate in Art History from the University of Chicago, and a nationally recognized expert in Cuban art. When her 19-year-old son said he wasn’t having kids unless we got climate change sorted out, she rolled up her sleeves and got to work. She joined the leadership team for the campaign for Seattle’s Green New Deal, and is a campaign liaison to Earth Ministry. Ingrid is the Transportation Team lead at 350 Seattle, and a co-founder of The Urgency of Now: Seattle’s Jewish Climate Festival.
Hannah Henza is the Director of National Programs, managing programmatic content and outreach across the organization including a variety of field building and climate-related initiatives including JOFEE gatherings, the Hazon Seal of Sustainability, and ongoing efforts to catalyze our community-centered response to a global climate crisis.
Rabbi Josh Weisman is a co-founder of the Big Bold Jewish Climate Festival and JTree. He writes, speaks, and teaches on climate and Judaism. He is currently the Senior Program Officer at the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund in San Francisco. Prior to ordination at the pluralistic Rabbinical School of Hebrew College, he worked for 12 years primarily as a grassroots organizer in his native San Francisco Bay Area.