Rabbi Jonathan Klein proudly serves as the Executive Director at CLUE-LA. Prior to his ordination in 1997 from Hebrew Union College, Jonathan served congregations in Flagstaff, Arizona and Rye, New York. Upon receiving his rabbinical degree, he served three years as Director of KESHER, the Reform Movement's College Department and then eight years as the Allen and Ruth Ziegler Rabbinic Director of USC Hillel, in Los Angeles. He is a songleader, music enthusiast, and lover of Jewish mysticism. An ardent environmentalist, he promotes sustainability with his communal involvements as a member of the board of the Coalition on the Environment in Jewish Life (COEJL-SC), as a member of the Environmental Commission of Speaker of the Assembly Karen Bass’ district, and by serving on the Environmental Initiatives Committee of the Tel Aviv/Los Angeles Partnership. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Rabbis of Southern California, and on the executive boards of the Pacific Association of Reform Rabbis and Jews Against the War.

Prior to his role at CLUE-LA, Rabbi Klein served as the Development Director for Progressive Jewish Alliance, a result of his involvement as a lay leader there on its Economic Justice Working Group Steering Committee and as a member of its Los Angeles Regional Council. Prior to fundraising work, he is particularly proud of and nostalgic for his first job in the organization as a Community Organizer!

Rabbi Klein is married to Zoë Klein, the senior rabbi of Temple Isaiah in Los Angeles. They are living happily ever after with their nine year-old son, Rachmiel, seven year-old daughter, Kinneret, and two year-old daughter, Zimra.

Pastor Bridie C. Roberts has been an activist and organizer for many years. She recently completed a two year part time appointment as the solo Pastor of Pico Union Shalom Ministries, a progressive Shalom Zone Ministry of the United Methodist Church serving the heart of the immigrant heavy inner city of Los Angeles in Pico Union.

Under her leadership, this Spanish speaking/bilingual ministry focused on neighborhood peace building, free community education programs. It also worked on community organizing, homeless immigrant outreach, and the completion of a substantial affordable housing project for the neighborhood. For the past five years Ms. Roberts has served concurrently at Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice, Los Angeles.

Her work has included clergy organizing on multiple campaigns, the development and leadership of the Young Religious Leaders Project, and acting as Senior Organizer for the CLUE LA. She currently serves full time as Program Director. Most recently Ms. Roberts was honored to be chosen to participate in an interfaith study tour and delegation to Egypt and Syria in a program coordinated by the National Peace Organization and ISSNA, and funded by the State Department. It was a joy to take CLUE’s message and concern for workers to the global community.

Previously Ms. Roberts has worked as a community organizer around affordable housing issues, grass roots urban planning and community greening, and community poverty issues in New York City, NY, Seattle, Washington, and Des Moines, IA. Originally from Miami, Florida, Bridie has lived in many places in the US, and attended college at Grinnell College, in Grinnell, IA, graduating with a BA in Political Science. In 2006 Ms. Roberts graduated from the Claremont School of Theology with a Masters of Divinity, emphasis in Urban Ministries. She has studied and traveled in Mexico, Central America, and parts of South America.

Hal Steinberg is a second year intern with CLUE-LA. He currently attends American University in Washington D.C. where he is two courses away from graduating with a B.A. in American Studies. Hal was born and raised in Los Angeles.

Hal came to CLUE-LA last summer having worked throughout college in his campus Jewish community and interfaith community, organizing students around issues of peace and justice. At school Hal is also actively involved in the student-labor alliance on campus which supported American University shuttle bus drivers in their efforts to unionize with the Teamsters and win their very first contract.

Diana Mendoza, born in Santa Ana, CA, graduated from Azusa Pacific University with a B.A. degree in Global Studies, and a minor in Organizational Leadership. During her studies at APU she participated in a semester-long urban immersion program. Her studies focused on immigrant families in L.A.

She then traveled to Mexico City, where her studies focused on the migrations of people from the countrysides of Oaxaca, Chiapas, other southern Mexicans into Mexico City. She also studied Machismo in the 21st century. She then continued on to write her undergrad thesis on Neoliberal Economics, focusing on NAFTA & CAFTA's impacts on the lives of women, farmers, and blue-collar workers through Meso America.

During her time at university, she volunteered at Clergy & Laity United for Economic Justice. Upon graduating, she interned, and later got a position as Lead Organizer of the New Sanctuary Movement at CLUE, where she continues to work til this day.