Dr. Erica Brown
Dr. Erica Brown is the Director of the Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and Leadership and an Associate Professor of curriculum and pedagogy at The George Washington University. Dr. Brown was a Jerusalem Fellow, is a faculty member of the Wexner Foundation, an Avi Chai Fellow and the recipient of the 2009 Covenant Award for her work in education. She is the author of 12 books on leadership, the Bible and spirituality; her newest book is The Book of Esther: Power, Fate and Fragility in Exile. She has been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Tablet, First Things and The Jewish Review of Books and wrote a monthly column for the New York Jewish Week. She has blogged for Psychology Today, Newsweek/Washington Post’s “On Faith” and JTA and tweeted on one page of Talmud study a day from @DrEricaBrown.
Dr. Brown has been called the “Terry Gross of the Jewish world.” She has interviewed former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, David Brooks, Jeffrey Goldberg, David Gregory, Moshe Halbertal, Shai Held, Leon Wieseltier, Yehuda Mersky, Ruth Messinger, Sarah Hurwitz, David Makovsky, Dennis Ross, Deborah Lipstadt and others.
Dr. Brown has degrees from Yeshiva University, University of London, Harvard University and Baltimore Hebrew University. She previously served as the scholar-in-residence at both The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington and the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston and as the community scholar for the Jewish Center of New York. She is currently the community scholar for Congregation Etz Chaim in Livingston, NJ. Her books, Jonah: The Reluctant Prophet, Take Your Soul to Work: 365 Meditations on Every Day Leadership and Happier Endings: A Meditation on Life and Death, have won both the Wilbur and Nautilus awards for spiritual writing. Previous books include Inspired Jewish Leadership, a National Jewish Book Award finalist, Spiritual Boredom, Confronting Scandal and The Case for Jewish Peoplehood, which she co-authored. Dr. Brown also wrote Seder Talk: A Conversational Haggada, Leadership in the Wilderness, In the Narrow Places and Return: Daily Inspiration for the Days of Awe.
