Rabbi Mira Rivera currently serves as Romemu’s Jewish Emergent Network Rabbinic Fellow and is the first Filipina-American woman to receive ordination from The Jewish Theological Seminary in 2015 with an M.A. in Jewish Studies. She is a Board Certified Chaplain with Neshama Association of Jewish Chaplains. With Dr. Renee Hill she co-founded Harlem Havruta, “a brave space for Jews of Color, allies and co-conspirators” at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church where they have had 2ndNight of Passover Liberation Seders and erected a kosher Sukkah open to the Manhattanville community since 2017.
Rabbi Mira serves as a co-chair of the Rabbinical Council of
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, and as a board member of Jewish Foundation for Women of New York and Ammud: the JOC Torah Academy. She is proud to belong to the first cohort of the Jewish
Women of Color Resilience Circle, Bend the Arc’s Selah Cohort 15 for Jews of Color, and
#JWOCMarching. Before serving in the Jewish world, she danced with the Martha Graham Dance Company and Ensemble under the mentorship of Yuriko. She keeps her Actor’s Equity union membership, just in case.
