Washington DC ACC-GTM Convention
Leading With our Voices
About
The Washington, DC 2025 ACC-GTM convention will be inclusive and respectful of diverse creators and givers of music, who represent many backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and generations. We will leave inspired with valuable insights and tools to strengthen us in our broad leadership roles in the Jewish community. We will connect with joy and fun; feeling seen, heard, and loved.
Complete information can be found on the ACC website.
Registration Information
Click here for the complete registration form for ACC members, GTM members, CA members, and guests.
PRE-PAID REGISTRATION INFORMATION
If you have funds on deposit with the ACC, you may use those funds for this convention or any future convention. If you wish to use those funds, please contact the ACC office before registering so we can give you the proper amount and code to deduct your funds on account from your total. Banked funds can be used for registration fees for yourself, your spouse, or children or donations to the scholarship or underwriting funds. Banked funds can NOT be used for hotel deposits or payments.
Hotel Information
Hotel reservation information will be sent in your confirmation email. Each participant is responsible for making their own hotel reservation in our hotel block. Our standard room rate is $230/night plus 15.95% tax. Rooms can be comfortably shared. Children age 17 or younger can stay in their parent’s room at no charge. If you choose not to reserve a room in our block, and if you are not local to the DC-metro area or have an immediate family member in the area, you will be responsible to pay a fee of $265.
Scholar-In-Residence: Micah Hendler
Micah Hendler is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Jerusalem Youth Chorus (JYC), an Israeli-Palestinian music and dialogue project he has brought from a dream to the global stages of TED and America’s Got Talent to the New York Times and the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Through the co-creation of music and the sharing of stories, JYC empowers young singers from East and West Jerusalem to speak and sing their truths as they become leaders in their communities and inspire singers and listeners around the world to join them in their work for peace, justice, inclusion, and equality. Even in times of war, JYC continues to meet, and its singers’ commitment to each other, and the power of their voices raised in harmony, has only grown.
In addition to his ongoing bridge-building work in Jerusalem, Micah has brought his JYC experience back home, collaborating with several organizations working to depolarize America: Braver Angels, the One America Movement, and Convergence. Music is a powerful access point for Americans to engage with one another differently, and by leading community singing, facilitating deep dialogue, and weaving disparate voices together through collaborative songwriting, Micah is working to build bridges in the US as well.
Micah has a degree in Music and International Studies from Yale and brings decades of musical experience from different global traditions to this work: he has founded, directed, sung with, or played with dozens of musical ensembles of varying styles, ranging from Nava Tehila in Jerusalem to the Yale Whiffenpoofs, and has studied Community Singing and CircleSinging with GRAMMY-winning composers Ysaye Barnwell and Roger Treece, using these techniques to open up the concept of who is allowed to sing and what singers can do together. He has also been involved in dialogue work for 20 years and has written and presented in many local and global fora about his work with the Jerusalem Youth Chorus, including in a main stage TED Talk with JYC Executive Director Amer Abu Arqub, and the keynote presentation of the East-West Philosophers’ Conference with leading Palestinian intellectual and peacemaker Dr. Sari Nusseibeh.
Micah was selected for the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Music in 2017 and has written extensively for Forbes.com on music, society, and social change in a global context, using this platform to uplift marginalized voices that are not often heard in mainstream media. He currently lives in Washington, DC, where he leads regular community sings and is the band leader at Adas Israel Congregation.
