Rabbi Tamara Cohen, Chief of Program & Strategy (she/her/hers), guides and supports Moving Traditions’ strategy, program development and partnership work in collaboration with her fabulous colleagues. Tamara, a proud recipient of a 2023 Covenant Award, knows that Jewishly-engaged, intersectional feminists of all genders can and will change the world. She is especially proud to have initiated Tzelem, Kol Koleinu and Kumi. Tamara is on the steering committee of the JWFNetwork and the Tikkun Olam Task Force of Reconstructing Judaism where she is focusing on helping synagogues around racial harm and teshuva. She is a member of the Bnot Esh Jewish feminist spirituality collective and a past participant in the Selah Leadership Program, Gen Now Fellowship and Rabbis without Borders a former Barbara Bick Fellow at The Shalom Center. Tamara was ordained at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and earned an MA in Women’s History from Sarah Lawrence College and a BA in Women’s Studies and English summa cum laude from Barnard College. When Tamara isn’t moving traditions and the Jewish community, she can be found reading and writing poetry, organizing community ritual, walking in Carpenter’s Woods, or having fun with her partner, Dr. Gwynn Kessler and their two children (preferably off screen but also, often, on).