About Sabrina Sojourner
Shaliakh Tzibur and Community Chaplain Sabrina Sojourner has been leading services, teaching, and cultivating curiosity within Judaism for nearly 20 years. She’s been a featured speaker, scholar-in-residence, and faculty at synagogues, conferences, retreats, and Shabbatons across the country.
Based in Rockville, MD, she serves as the Spiritual Leader for Revitz House, a residence of the Charles E. Smith Life Communities. She leads services, teaches on a variety of topics; prepares young and the elder young for bar/bat mitzvah, and tends to life-cycle, spiritual, and chaplain services for the campus and for unaffiliated Jewish families wherever she is needed.
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In 2018, she launched Training the Heart to Listen, a conversational approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Based on Jewish values, the design invites participants to use their spirituality, the sacredness of their community, and the values of their faith tradition for this important, and often difficult, discussion.
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Selected Featured Speaker and Residencies
The Jewish People of Color National Shabbaton
Virtual
Quarantine Anniversary Vigil
Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington, DC
Listening With the Heart
Resnik Memorial Lecturer Congregation Beth El Sisterhood Shabbat, Bethesda, MD
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Yizkor, Yom Kippur
National Jews of Color High Holiday Services
Virtual
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Erased From Memory: Origins of Humanity & Origins of Jews”
Anshe Chesed, New York
Training the Heart to Listen
Scholar-in-Residence Oseh Shalom Congregation, Laurel, MD
Featured Speaker, Performance Artist &
Spiritual Leader
National Women’s Studies Association
Annual Conference
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Midrashist-in-Residence
National Havurah Summer Institute
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​Memberships:
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​Association of Professional Chaplains
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JWOC Alumna
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National Association of Jewish Chaplains
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National JOC Misphahah Project
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Women Cantors Network
Education
Clinical Pastoral Education 2013-2017
Frederick Memorial Hospital Residency and Hebrew Home/Greater Washington
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Davvening Leadership Training Institute 6
Elat Chayim, Isabella Freedman
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Master of Arts, Transformative Leadership and Social Change
Maryland University for Integrative Health
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Bachelor of Arts, Theatre Arts
University of California, Santa Barbara