Gerry Serotta is Executive Director Emeritus of the Interfaith Council of Metropolitan Washington, and previously served as founding Executive Director of Clergy Beyond Borders. He was a university chaplain and Hillel Rabbi for 28 years and for twelve years served congregations in Maryland.

Rabbi Serotta was the Founding Chair of both Rabbis for Human Rights, North America (now T’ruah, the Rabbinic Call for Human Rights) and of New Jewish Agenda, a national progressive organization.

He was listed in American Jewish Biographies (1982) as one of 500 living American Jews who had contributed significantly to American or American Jewish life. The editor, Murray Polner, commented, “Since the late 1960’s Rabbi Gerald Serotta has been in the vanguard of progressive Jewish movements that seek to draw disaffected, unaffiliated, primarily younger Jews into a Judaism that is forward-looking and more accepting of changed values and styles of life.”