About

I am a creature of the threshold. I find my purpose in beginnings and transitions: the birth of an idea, the pivot of an organization, or the messy, urgent response to a crisis. Twenty years of this work has taught me that studying ancient Talmudic law, managing a million-dollar fundraiser, and coordinating a hurricane recovery site are all components of the same craft: fieldwork in the architecture of human connection.

My formation began as a jazz musician. Though I no longer play the trumpet, the spirit and logic of improvisation guides my work. Jazz taught me how to listen for the missing note in a room and how to stay composed when the chart is discarded.

I live nomadically because profound work rarely happens in a static office; meaning-making resides in liminality. My practice is a strange hybrid of spiritual inquiry and tactical operations, embodying at once rabbi, responder, producer, and wanderer. I go where the need is acute and the potential for transformation is ripe, and I am less interested in what we are supposed to be as I am in how we can become.