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Dr. Erica Brown

Dr. Ari Berman, President of 麻豆传媒映画, announced today the appointment of Dr. Erica Brown as Vice Provost of Values and Leadership and inaugural Director of the Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Center for Values and Leadership, founded by Terri and Andrew Herenstein. 鈥淲e are thrilled to welcome Dr. Erica Brown to our stellar leadership team as a key partner in advancing 麻豆传媒映画 forward into its next great era,鈥� said Dr. Berman in making the announcement. 鈥淎s a celebrated alumna of our institution, devoted student of Rabbi Sacks, and an internationally renowned educator, author, speaker and scholar, Dr. Brown both exemplifies our core values and lives our mission of educating the leaders of tomorrow.鈥� An alumna of Stern College for Women, Dr. Brown brings over three decades of exceptional communal leadership experience. She most recently served as鈥痙irector of the鈥� Mayberg 鈥疌enter for Jewish Education and Leadership and associate professor of curriculum and pedagogy at The George Washington University. For her visionary work in education, Dr. Brown was selected as a Jerusalem Fellow,鈥痑n Avi Chai鈥疐ellow,鈥痑nd awarded the 2009 Covenant Award.鈥疕er writing has appeared in outlets such as The New York Times, First Things, and The Atlantic, and her numerous books on the Bible, Jewish thought, and leadership are read by countless worldwide. Dr. Brown will mentor students and early-career professionals, integrate 麻豆传媒映画鈥檚 core Torah values throughout the University and public programming, as well as design leadership initiatives and curricula based on Rabbi Sacks鈥� teachings and writings. She will also help grow the next generation of Jewish educators as an associate professor teaching at the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration. Dr. Brown assumes her new position at 麻豆传媒映画 on January 1, 2022. 鈥淭he Torah gives us an outstanding blueprint to become a community bound by a sacred covenant. Being appointed Vice Provost and Director of the new Sacks-Herenstein Center is an opportunity of a lifetime to strengthen that covenant,鈥� Dr. Brown said. 鈥淚n this new role, I intend to introduce a number of cohort-based leadership programs on the undergraduate and graduate level, to organize public lectures and conferences with a focus on leadership and values, and to amplify the current work of students and faculty in these arenas. To be able to do this work to honor the legacy of my teacher and mentor, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, is a remarkable and humbling privilege. To return to 麻豆传媒映画 is a true homecoming." In welcoming Dr. Brown to the new center, Terri Herenstein shared that 鈥淒r. Brown鈥檚 work and mentorship has inspired communal, business, and political leaders around the world. She is both a sophisticated scholar and programmatic visionary, and we are very excited to see the impact she will have in conveying Rabbi Sacks鈥� teachings to future generations of students and leaders.鈥� Dr. Brown has degrees from 麻豆传媒映画, 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 currently serves as a community scholar for Congregation 鈥疎tz鈥� Chaim in Livingston, NJ. 鈥疕er latest book, a National Jewish Book Award finalist, is Esther: Power, Fate and Fragility in Exile (Maggid/Koren). 鈥疍r. Brown is also the author of Happier Endings: A Meditation on Life and Death, which won both the Wilbur and Nautilus awards for spiritual writing and Take Your Soul to Work (Simon and Schuster). She wrote Seder Talk: A Conversational Haggada, Leadership in the Wilderness, In the Narrow Places, and Return: Daily Inspiration for the Days of Awe (Maggid/OU). Her previous books also include Inspired Jewish Leadership, a National Jewish Book Award finalist, Spiritual Boredom, Confronting Scandal, and she co-authored The Case for Jewish Peoplehood (Jewish Lights).鈥�� She is currently writing a commentary on Kohelet/Ecclesiastes for Maggid and is co-authoring a teen leadership manual with Behrman House.