Rachel Jacoby Rosenfield is Executive Vice President at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, where she shapes the vision and strategy, leads the staff, oversees programs and operations, and develops the culture. Previously, she was Director of Experiential Education at the American Jewish World Service, and the founding director of the Jewish Greening Fellowship, an initiative to cultivate environmental change leadership among Jewish communal professionals, reduce the environmental impacts of non-profit organizations in the New York area, and generate meaningful responses to global climate change. Rachel is a teacher, writer and speaker—skills honed early as a scholar of literature and developed throughout her career as an educator and curriculum writer. Rachel holds an M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. She lives with her husband, a psychiatrist, and is the mother of two (almost) grown children.