Rae Abileah

Rae Abileah (she/her) is a Jewish faith leader, social change strategist, writer, and facilitator. For the past two decades, she has worked with nonprofits and social movements, from volunteer to executive director.

Rae graduated from Barnard College at Columbia University with a dual degree in Environmental Science and Human Rights and received ordination by the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute.

She has led human rights delegations to the West Bank with Eyewitness Palestine and visited Gaza for the global peaceful Gaza Freedom March.

She’s a first-generation American and her Dutch, Ashkenazi Jewish, and Israeli ancestry informs her work toward dismantling white supremacy. Rae was raised and currently resides on Unceded Ramaytush Ohlone land on the California coast.