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. She is author of  The Jewish Way to a Good Life and co-host of the top-ranked PRX podcast “Chutzpod,” in which she provides Jewish answers to life’s contemporary questions and helps listeners build lives of meaning. Shira also teaches Torah and speaks nationally on topics including growing welcoming Jewish spiritual communities; building the connective tissues between different types of people; and the current American Jewish community zeitgeist. She is the senior rabbi of the Aspen Jewish Congregation and founder of Mixed Multitudes, a consultancy that exposes diverse groups of Jews and fellow travelers to the beauty and power of Jewish life, tradition, and conversation. She was the founding rabbi of Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, in addition to a number of other start-up Jewish life initiatives. She was named one of “America’s Most Inspiring Rabbis” by The Jewish Forward and a T’ruah Rabbinic Human Rights Hero, 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.