I am a devotional singer, Kohenet Hebrew Priestess, scholartivist and healer. I currently live in unceded Lisjan territory, currently known as the East Bay, California, where I priestess at the intersections of music, spirit, healing, justice and ancestral memory. 

I endeavor to live in service to beauty and collective healing- in a way that affirms that life is a web of relationships, that all things have a spirit and that humans are just one group of people within an entangled and interdependent network. At the core, my life is about reckoning with and awakening to what it means to be woven into this interconnected web of being and to compassionately hold space for that reckoning and remembrance to unfold within others.

I am a third-generation American Jew, born and raised in New York City, land of the Lenape people. My recent ancestors are Yiddish-speaking Jews from the Ukraine, Poland, Russia and Belarus with older origins also throughout the Mediterranean (Greece, S. Italy), and the Levant. 

I support people to cultivate relationship with their ancestors and to nurture intimacy with the natural world in service to personal, familial, and cultural healing. I guide those I work with to connect with the places they inhabit, to the Divine, to themselves and to the greater mysteries - toward a sense of belonging and purpose. 

I sing and pray in multiple spiritual traditions and offer music in many different contexts to to individuals and communities. As an artist and ritualist, I have also co-created performances that are transmissions of and opportunities for healing and cultural repair. 

While working and praying within multi-religious contexts, I am grounded in my spiritual lineage by birth. Inspired by the gifts and challenges of my Orthodox Jewish upbringing, I am dedicated to cultivating spiritual community and practices that are dynamic, embodied, feminist and earth-reverent, and am devoted to embodying a Jewish praxis that is relational and liberatory. 

My training is ongoing and has not been linear. Beyond ongoing commitment to my home tradition, my immersion in healing modalities and the ceremonial arts has spanned Western herbalism, plant spirit medicine, and end of life care. I am a student and lover of Sufism and have spent time immersing in Brazilian earth-honoring traditions and ceremonies. I have studied Ancestral Healing with Dr. Daniel Foor and drum making with master drum-maker Yolanda Martinez. I received smicha as a Kohenet Hebrew Priestess in 2018 and my work for over three years on staff with the institute has helped shape the emergent organization and movement. I have a Bachelors in Social Work from New York University and a Masters of Divinity from Starr King School for the Ministry, a multi-religious counter oppressive theological seminary at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. 

I offer gratitude to be woven into a vibrant web of ancestors, mentors, family, friends, artists, activists, organizers, healers, visionaries and troublemakers who are devoted to the heart of this world and who hold me accountable to my values and inspire me greatly-  I am because of you.