Shoshana Rosen
Shoshana does her best thinking and creating in the seams between disciplines: where research meets intuition, data meets creativity, human relationships meet systems, and Jewish wisdom meets everyday life.
Shoshana grew up in a Modern Orthodox home with a deep sense of connection to the story, history, and traditions she inherited; indeed, she is the custodian of a Torah written by her ancestors and passed down through her family for eight generations. Yet, she’s also found parts of that inherited Judaism to be lonely and restrictive. In high school, she had a realization: perhaps one of the most powerful things about Judaism (and life!) is not simply what we inherit, but what we create together.
Since then, Shoshana has been on a lifelong journey exploring what community can look like, who gets to create it, and how we can make it more meaningful, expansive, and alive. At the University of Maryland, she received a degree in Individual Studies combining Psychology, Special Education, and Family Science; she was Director of 20s+30s Programming at JCC Manhattan; founded DIYTLV, an arts and crafts community; was a Dorot Fellow; and at Meta, she designed and led experiences across the company’s global offices focused on creativity, resilience, mindfulness, conflict resolution and emerging technologies.
That journey has now led her to Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah, where she works on making small groups a powerful way for people to experience Jewish wisdom, connection, and individual and communal thriving. To do that, she loves bringing together people and perspectives that might not otherwise meet, believing that the collision of different ideas can open up entirely new ways of seeing a problem and imagining what is possible.
Shoshana lives in New York City with her husband and two children.