A visionary and leader in the non-profit sector, Rabbi Jennie Rosenn founded Dayenu in 2020 to mobilize the American Jewish community to confront the climate crisis with spiritual audacity and bold political action. The organization has since grown exponentially, and now mobilizes thousands of Jewish climate activists.

Rabbi Rosenn is recognized both for her leadership in organizing for social change, and for her commitment to providing spiritual resources that comfort and mobilize people to action. 

Rabbi Rosenn has twice been named one of the Forward’s 50 most influential Jews in America, and in 2022 was named one of the top 22 faith leaders to watch by the Center for American Progress.

Rabbi Rosenn has spent more than two decades leading Jewish non-profit organizations, advocating for social change and creating dynamic new initiatives at the heart of the Jewish social justice movement. Before founding Dayenu, she served as vice president for community engagement at HIAS, where she built a robust Jewish movement responding to the global refugee crisis.

Prior to serving at HIAS, Rabbi Rosenn spent nearly a decade growing the Jewish social justice movement as the director of the Jewish Life and Values Program at the Nathan Cummings Foundation. There she built the Jewish Social Justice Roundtable and the Selah Leadership Training Program, while spearheading initiatives to cultivate the environmental movement and women as agents of change in Israel.

Rabbi Rosenn has also served as rabbi at Columbia/Barnard Hillel, a founding board member of AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps and Repair the World, and on the boards of the Jewish Funders Network and New York Jobs with Justice.

Rabbi Rosenn was ordained by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion where she was a Wexner Graduate Fellow.

She and her husband, Rabbi David Rosenn, live in New York City, where they raised two sons.

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