Our History

D'vorah J. Grenn, Ph.D. is founder and director of The Lilith Institute (1997), a San Francisco Bay Area-based producer of women's spirituality/study circles, public and private rituals and a variety of lecture series. She served as Chair of the Women's Spirituality MA Program at Sofia University (formerly the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology) in Palo Alto, California, and was the founding kohenet/priestess of Mishkan Shekhinah, a movable sanctuary honoring the Sacred Feminine in all spiritual traditions. Dr. Grenn’s dissertation, “For She Is A Tree of Life: Shared Roots Connecting Women to Deity” was an inquiry into Jewish women’s religious/cultural identities, beliefs and ritual practices among the South African Lemba and United States women.

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