Rabbi Aderet Drucker is an innovative spiritual leader, dynamic educator, inspired social entrepreneur, and a natural community organizer and builder. Since her adolescence she has expressed a love of meeting new people and an instinct for curating gatherings in sacred community; inviting people to show up as their fullest selves to learn, celebrate, heal, and to join together to create impactful change in our world.

After receiving her rabbinic ordination along with a concentration in pastoral care from the Jewish Theological Seminary, Rabbi Aderet served as senior rabbi for a congregation in Northern California. As Campus Rabbi for Hillel at the University of Maryland, she served on UMD’s Interfaith Campus Chaplaincy and co-founded UMD’s first Interfaith Student Fellowship; bringing together Muslim, Christian, and Jewish students for relationship-building and learning.

As a community organizer trained by JOIN for Justice, Rabbi Aderet led a successful two-year community building listening project for an 850-household congregation in New York that resulted in successful and sustained communal action. Today, Rabbi Aderet leads trainings for organizational boards and professionals seeking to impact systemic change within their organizations and communities.

Rabbi Aderet holds a certificate in Mindful Leadership in Higher Education from NYU’s Of Many Institute For Multifaith Leadership. Rabbi Aderet is also a Global Justice Fellow with American Jewish World Service. Rabbi Aderet was selected to be in the inaugural cohort of JCADA’s Ambassador Program, creating safe spaces for survivors of intimate partner violence. Rabbi Aderet is currently in the inaugural cohort of the 3-year Gates of Awareness: Jewish Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training program, created by Or HaLev and the Institute of Jewish Spirituality.

An experienced backpacker, Rabbi Aderet loves traveling, spending reflective time by the water, cooking new dishes, and spontaneous dance parties with her husband and two children.