Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso is Rabbi Emerita of Congregation Beth-El Zedeck, Indianapolis, Ind. and is presently director of the Spirituality, Religion and the Arts Initiative at IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute. Rabbi Sasso was the first woman ordained at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 1974. She and her husband Dennis are the first rabbinical couple in world Jewish history. She is the recipient of a Doctor of Ministry from Christian Theological Seminary. Rabbi Sasso is the author of over 24 nationally and internationally acclaimed children’s books being honored with a National Jewish Book Award and an Indiana Authors Award.
Rabbi Sasso is also the author of two books for adults including, Midrash – Reading the Bible with Question Marks and Jewish Stories of Love and Marriage, co-edited with Peninnah Schram. She serves on the Board of Advisors of IUPUI, the board of Indiana Humanities, and the editorial board of the Encyclopedia of Indianapolis. In 2016 she co-founded Women4Change Indiana, a statewide organization focused on educating, equipping, and mobilizing Hoosiers to create positive change for women.
In an article celebrating the tenth anniversary of God’s Paintbrush, her first book, which has sold over 100,000 copies, one journalist remarked, “They may not know who she is, but if a generation of young people has grown more comfortable expressing their views about G-d, they may want to thank Sandy Eisenberg Sasso.” 
In addition to Judy Led the Way (the story of the first bat mitzvah), she is the author of Regina Persisted - An Untold Story (the story of the first woman rabbi)  Her newest publication is The Raven and the Dove, The Big Fish, and the Stubborn Donkey: Stories of Animals from the Bible. Her forthcoming book is The Good for Nothing Tree (with Amy-Jill Levine). More information about Rabbi Sasso can be found on her website at www.allaboutand.com.