Rabbi Alana Alpert serves on the Rabbinic Cabinet at Avodah.
A California native, Rabbi Alana Alpert currently serves as the rabbi of Congregation T’chiyah in Detroit, and as a community organizer with Detroit Jews for Justice. She graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a BA in Community Studies, where she studied resistance and social movements and first learned about faith-based community organizing. She is a graduate of Avodah and ACTIVATE! The Community Organizing Fellowship of Social Justice Leadership. Rabbi Alpert has worked as an organizer at NY Jobs with Justice and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice. Rabbi Alpert received ordination from Hebrew College in Boston in 2014. In her spare time, she swims, sings karaoke, and tries to learn to play guitar. She is really excited to meet you!