Ellen Lippmann is founder and rabbi of Kolot Chayeinu/Voices of Our Lives. Rabbi Lippmann is the former East Coast Director OF MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, and former director of the Jewish Women's Program at the New 14th Street Y in Manhattan.

Rabbi Lippmann serves on the Executive Committee and board of Rabbis for Human Rights-North America, and on the board of The Shalom Center. In late 2006, she chaired THE FIRST NORTH AMERICAN RABBINIC CONFERENCE ON JUDAISM & HUMAN RIGHTS. She is also on the rabbinic councils of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice and Brit Tzedek vShalom.

Rabbi Lippmann was ordained in 1991 by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and also received there the degree of Master of Hebrew Letters. She holds a BA in English Language and Literature from Boston University and an MS in Library Science from Simmons College. Rabbi Lippmann and her partner are long-time Brooklyn residents and believe to be absolutely true what a Kolot Chayeinu member once said in jest: "IT DON'T GET ANY BETTER THAN BROOKLYN!"