Rabbi Shira Stutman

Rabbi Shira Stutman is a nationally known faith-based leader and change-maker with more than twenty years of experience motivating and inspiring groups large and small, most recently as the founding rabbi of Sixth & I in Washington DC. She and the actor Joshua Malina co-host the PRX podcast Chutzpod! which aims to provide Jewish answers to life’s contemporary questions and help listeners build lives of meaning. As founder of Mixed Multitudes, an organization that exposes diverse groups of Jews and fellow travelers to the beauty and power of Jewish life, tradition, and and conversation, she currently is working on a variety of projects including: serving as interim rabbi at Aspen Jewish Congregation; running programs that support Jews in having less reactive and more heart-centered conversations about Israel; teaching in progressive institutions about antisemitism; and serving as scholar-in-residence for projects that build the next generation of philanthropic leadership. She was named one of “America’s Most Inspiring Rabbis” by The Jewish Forward, among other awards. Rabbi Shira graduated from Columbia University and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where she was a Wexner Graduate Fellow. She also is a proud graduate of the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School.