Biography
Dr. Erica Brown is the Vice Provost for Values and Leadership at Yeshiva University and the founding director of its Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks-Herenstein Center for Values and Leadership. Her latest book is Morning Has Broken: Faith After October 7th (Toby/Koren). She is also the author of The Torah of Leadership and Kohelet and the Search for Meaning (Maggid). Erica was a Jerusalem Fellow, an Avi Chai Fellow, the recipient of the 2009 Covenant Award, and is a faculty member of the Wexner Foundation. She has written 15 books on the Hebrew Bible, spirituality, and leadership, two of which were finalists for the National Jewish Book Award. Her book Happier Endings (Simon and Schuster) received the Wilbur and Nautilus Awards for spiritual writing. She also co-authored two books and co-edited Ode to Joy: Happiness in the Thinking of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks and Beyond. She has been published in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Tablet, First Things, and The Jewish Review of Books. She serves as a consulting editor for the journal Tradition. Her website is ericabrown.com. Erica and her husband Jeremy are the proud parents of four children, four in-law children, and seven beautiful grandchildren.