Rabbi Benjamin Shefter is a member of Cohort II of the Created Equal Educators Fellowship of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. He grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and attended Yeshivat Torat Chaim before attending the University of Maryland, where he received a BS in Material Science and Engineering. While studying at YCT, he served as the Educational Director of Heart to Heart, a UJA-Federation of NY Seymour Siegel Fellow, a teacher at the Jewish Journey Project, and an educator at the Ramah Day Camp in Nyack, New York. Ben was a Birthright Israel Fellow, and a Rabbi Without Borders Fellow and an intern for Jewish Student Life at Hillels of Westchester, before continuing on staff there as Senior Jewish Educator for three years. He is now the Senior Jewish Educator with Hillel Ontario at McMaster and Guelph Universities.