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 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. Her book
The Jewish Way to a Good Life is forthcoming in March, 2025. 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.
