Rav Maya loves serving the Jewish community at Cal in her role as Campus Rabbi. She is west coast-born, midwest-raised, and East Coast-schooled. She received rabbinic ordination and a Master’s in Jewish Women and Gender Studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary as a Wexner Graduate Fellow. While studying at JTS, Maya served as a rabbinic intern at the Columbia/Barnard Hillel and at Romemu on the Upper West Side. Before starting her rabbinic studies, Maya graduated from Barnard College with a degree in English literature and creative writing and followed her love of text to the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, where she learned Torah for two years and now serves as faculty in the summer. Maya loves doing things your bubbe might do (speaking Yiddish, embroidering things, wearing comfortable footwear) and wants to know what you’re reading, what you’re watching, and what you’re singing when you think no one is listening.
