Rab­bi Jill Jacobs is the Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of T’ru­ah: The Rab­binic Call for Human Rights, which mobi­lizes 1800 rab­bis and can­tors and tens of thou­sands of Amer­i­can Jews to bring a Jew­ish moral voice to the most press­ing human rights con­cerns of our time. She is the author of Where Jus­tice Dwells: A Hands-On Guide to Doing Social Jus­tice in Your Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ty and There Shall Be No Needy: Pur­su­ing Social Jus­tice through Jew­ish Law and Tra­di­tion, both pub­lished by Jew­ish Lights. Rab­bi Jacobs has been named to the For­ward​’s list of 50 influ­en­tial Amer­i­can Jews three times, to The Jew­ish Week​’s first list of ​“36 under 36”, and to Newsweek​’s list of the 50 Most Influ­en­tial Rab­bis in Amer­i­ca every year since 2009. She holds rab­binic ordi­na­tion and an MA in Tal­mud from the Jew­ish The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary, an MS in Urban Affairs from Hunter Col­lege, and a BA in Com­par­a­tive Lit­er­a­ture from Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty. She lives in New York with her hus­band, Guy Aus­tri­an, and their two daughters.