2025 Directors
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Atid Kimelman
Atid loves playing and singing all kinds of music and helping others do the same. A multi-instrumentalist, he's played in klezmer bands, led community singing circles, and facilitated nigun collectives on the east and west coasts. He's especially passionate about connecting music to spiritual exploration and social justice, and about learning from the full tapestry of the world's musical traditions.
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Elaina Marshalek
Elaina (she/her) serves as Urban Adamah’s Ritual and Community Director. She was born, raised, schooled, and remains rooted in the Bay Area. She was previously Director of Programs and Talmud Teacher at SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva that brings the spiritual study of Talmud to the masses as a tool for radical changemaking. When not on the farm, she’s Senior Educator at Base Bay Area, building vibrant, rooted, and resonant Jewish community for young adults out of her and her partner’s home in Oakland.
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Eva Orbuch
Eva Orbuch is a passionate justice seeker, coach, consultant, and musician. She is a Kohenet (Hebrew Priestess) in training and frequently drums and sings for Jewish prayer spaces. She loves to support and coach people in finding their authentic activism, designing rituals for moments of life transition, and she acts as a “Drum Doula,” supporting people to build their relationship with drumming, power, and leadership.
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2025 Core Volunteer Team
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Elan Loeb
Elan is one of the Founders and a previous director of Kol. She currently organizes with Thrive Street Choir. Professionally, she facilitates arts, music, and mindfulness groups for individuals navigating mental health and substance use challenges.
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Ben Kramartz
Ben is a songleader, music educator, and community organizer. He is the author of A Guide to Songleading and Communal Singing, head songleader of SingJam, and director of Sacred Music Fellowship
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Turtle Woman Maryam
turtle woman maryam (she/her/our) is a formerly incarcerated Elder trans woman who has been an activist in many movements since the 1960s. She is currently active in restorative justice, the teachings of yoga, prison abolition, and liberation song. She was a Co-Organizer of the Summer 2022 End of Isolation Tour, which brought the immersive theater of The Box, a play about survival and resistance to solitary confinement, to cities around the U.S.
2025 Faculty Teachers
