Born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, Shannyn has been singing since she could talk. She studied music and performance through to University and completed an Advanced Diploma in Sound Engineering at RMIT.
Shannyn has been working with communities throughout Australia and beyond since mid 2013 to run and create programming, lead Shabbat and holiday services and connect people of all ages with Judaism. She founded the Meaningful Music Movement in 2015 to provide workshops and events that engage people to Judaism through music and Barefoot Shabbat events. She is currently studying primary teaching and completing a new album to be released later this year.
Feygi Phillips grew up in a Yiddish speaking household in Melbourne. She graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor of Arts/Education in 2008 and from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America with a Masters of Modern Jewish Studies in 2011. She has dedicated her life to Jewish education and lives in Melbourne with her husband, Zac.
Veronica lives in Melbourne with her four children. If she didn’t have to feed them and be their unpaid uber driver, she would be doing a lot more writing.
Alain is a Business Development professional born in Belgium, living in and enjoying Melbourne since 2005. He is happily married and has three children.
Maya Roman is co-founder and co-manager of Politically Corret, editor of METROPOLIS magazine and has an MA in philosophy of science from the Tel Aviv University Cohn institute.
Susan Hearst a retired business woman currently exploring her family history and hoping to write a memoir about this. Formerly a Joint Managing Director of Tempo Holidays and before that a social worker. I have three adult children and six grandchildren.