Dara Z. Klarfeld is the Executive Director of JEXNET: The Network for Experiential Jewish Youth Education, committed to providing training, networking and professional development resources for Experiential Jewish Educators from all denominations and communities across North America.

Before heading up JEXNET, Dara was the director of Eastern European programs for the Youth department of United Synagogue youth, a fieldworker for KOACH, the director of the Panim el Panim program in Washington DC, and a Talmud teacher at the Solomon Schechter High School in Long Island. "Dara has also done work for JESNA and UJA-Federation of New York.

Dara is the editor of the second edition of a sourcebook entitled "Community Responsibility in the Jewish Tradition," and has written several curricula on teaching Talmud in pluralistic day school settings. Dara also sits on the board of the Hillel at the University of Maryland, and holds both a masters in Rabbinics and Rabbinic Ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. She is married to Simon Klarfeld, and they are the proud parents of Harry Max.

Naomi Korb is the Program Director for JEXNET: The Network for Experiential Jewish Youth Education, working to provide professional development opportunities for Experiential Jewish Youth Educators across the country. Prior to working at JEXNET, she served as the Bronfman Fellow at Hillel's International Center in Washington, D.C., assisting President Avraham Infeld and Chairman Edgar M. Bronfman in issues of fund-raising, communication and general affairs of the Office of the President.

Naomi received a B.S. in Marketing with a minor in Rhetoric from the University of Maryland, College Park, where she was active in Jewish campus life and worked as an editor for the daily newspaper. Before college, she spent a year studying at Midreshet Lindenbaum (Brovenders) in Jerusalem.

David Bryfman is an Australian-born Jewish educator who has worked in formal and informal Jewish educational institutions in Australia, Israel, and North America. He has lived and studied in Israel and worked as the Director of Informal Jewish Education at a large Jewish day school, a Hillel Director, the Director of Birthright Israel in Australia and several other Israel experience programs. David is a graduate of Brandeis University's Informal Jewish Education Leadership Seminar. David Bryfman is currently a Doctoral student in Jewish Education at NYU focusing on experiential Jewish Education.

Rabbi Scott Aaron is an accomplished author, teacher and specialist in adult Jewish education. From 2001-2004 he was the Director of Education at the Brandeis-Bardin Institute, a 3,000 acre Jewish retreat center in California. Prior to that, Scott was a Hillel rabbi for seven years which laid the groundwork for his popular book now in its third printing, Jewish U: A Contemporary Guide for the Jewish College Student (2002: URJ Press). Scott has his Rabbinic Ordination and Master of Arts in Hebrew Literature from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City, his Juris Doctor from the University Of Toledo College Of Law, and his Bachelors of Arts in Psychology from the University of Cincinnati. Scott is also a Fellow of the Institute for Informal Jewish Education at Brandeis University and faculty for the Foundation for Jewish Camping. He is currently consulting and working on a new model for Jewish family retreats and family camping, and is a regular teacher for the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School among other programs. Scott lives in Chicago, Illinois, with his amazing wife, Rabbi Donni Aaron, and is the proud father of three children: Meitav, Nitzan, and Naor.

Rabbi Ramie Arian is an experienced professional whose career spans the sometimes-overlapping fields of informal Jewish education and foundation leadership. He currently serves as National Director of Young Judaea, a position at the center of the movement's network of Israel programs, camps, and year-round campus, regional and club activity. He was the founding Executive Director of the Foundation for Jewish Camping, serving with FJC from its creation in 1998 until early 2004. At FJC, he was responsible not only for setting the Foundation's programmatic priorities and directions, but also for raising all of its annual budget. He served from 1989-1998 with the Wexner Heritage Foundation, concluding as Vice President. For the first fifteen years of his professional career, he worked at the Union for Reform Judaism (then called UAHC), concluding his tenure as national director of NFTY. A graduate of Brown University, he was ordained and received an (honorary) doctorate of divinity from Hebrew Union College (NY).