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Dr. Erica Brown is an associate professor at George Washington University's Graduate School of Education and Human Development and the director of its Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and Leadership. She is the author of twelve books on leadership, the Hebrew Bible and spirituality; her forthcoming commentary is The Book of Esther: Power, Fate and Fragility in Exile (Koren/OU). She has been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Tablet and The Jewish Review of Books and wrote a monthly column for the New York Jewish Week. She has blogged for Psychology Today, Newsweek/Washington Post’s “On Faith” and JTA and tweets on one page of Talmud study a day at DrEricaBrown.

She previously served as the scholar-in-residence at both The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, where she directed its Jewish Leadership Institute, and the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston and as the community scholar for the Jewish Center of New York.
Dr. Brown is a faculty member of the Wexner Foundation, an Avi Chai Fellow, and a recipient of the 2009 Covenant Award for her work in education.