Julie Batz is a Jewish educator, congregational leader, ritual facilitator, and Talmud teacher. In addition to teaching for QueerCore Talmud at JCCSF, Julie serves on the faculty of SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva.

Jim Mavrikios finds nothing incongruous about being a Greek-American Jewish Arabist—and program manager of New Lehrhaus. In 2001 he founded Pacific Arabic, a language school in downtown San Francisco. He served as executive director there until 2020, while also teaching Standard and Moroccan Arabic.