Rab­bi Mike Uram is the Exec­u­tive Direc­tor and Cam­pus Rab­bi for the Hil­lel at Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia and the author of the new book enti­tled Next Gen­er­a­tion Judaism: How Col­lege Stu­dents and Hil­lel Can Help Rein­vent Jew­ish Orga­ni­za­tions which recent­ly won a Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award. Dur­ing his time at Penn Hil­lel Mike cre­at­ed a new Jew­ish engage­ment ​‘start-up’ called the Jew­ish Renais­sance Project (JRP) that reach­es thou­sands of stu­dents on the Jew­ish periph­ery with cut­ting-edge meth­ods for build­ing alter­na­tive Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ties and deliv­er­ing con­tent-rich Jew­ish expe­ri­ences. JRP was recent­ly includ­ed in the 2014 – 2015 Sling­shot guide for most inno­v­a­tive Jew­ish orga­ni­za­tions in North Amer­i­ca. Mike has offered key note address­es and led work­shops at many local and nation­al Jew­ish orga­ni­za­tions and he cur­rent­ly serves as lead fac­ul­ty and Jew­ish coach for the Schus­ter­man Fel­low­ship a pres­ti­gious lead­er­ship devel­op­ment pro­gram for the most promis­ing tal­ent in the Jew­ish pro­fes­sion­al sec­tor. Mike was named to the 2012 For­ward list of the 50 most influ­en­tial lead­ers that year. In the win­ter of 2007 Mike received Hillel’s high­est award for pro­fes­sion­al achieve­ment the Richard M. Joel Exem­plar of Excel­lence. He lives out­side Philadel­phia with his wife Leo­ra and their chil­dren Avi­tal Ben­jamin and Coby.