Shifra Bronznick is a strategist to social sector networks, organizations, and leaders. Her work with the Shalom Hartman Institute has been instrumental in founding and guiding the Created Equal Project.

Shifra’s partnership with Auburn Seminary has helped deepen the impact of the multifaith movement for justice. She created the groundbreaking Better Work, Better Life paid leave campaign. The Men as Allies initiative she launched has influenced creative approaches to diversifying thought leadership. The leadership programs she designs support hundreds of women in cultivating their full potential and advancing systemic change. Recently, she created a Philanthropic Leadership Curriculum for Women Moving Millions, funded by the Gates Foundation.

Shifra was Founder and President of Advancing Women Professionals & the Jewish Community, recognized annually by the philanthropic guide, Slingshot for leadership and innovation. She co-authored Leveling the Playing Field, with Didi Goldenhar and Marty Linsky. Her action research projects with the Nathan Cummings Foundation, including Visioning Justice, strengthened the field of faith rooted social justice and led to the establishment of the Jewish social justice roundtable.

She has been chosen three times by The Forward as one of the fifty most influential Jews, she received the Leading Lights award from the Future Work Institute, the Lives of Commitment award from Auburn, and is a Ford Foundation Public Voices Fellow. The leadership strategist to the White House Project for a decade, she has been a senior fellow at the Research Center for Leadership in Action at NYU/Wagner where she teaches in the Executive Masters in Public Administration program.