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.

Dr. Grenn co-produced the annual Women’s Rites of Spring Festival in Napa with Kahuna Leilani Birely, founder of Daughters of the Goddess since its inception in 2004, through 2007, and co-sponsored a Voice of the Spirit lecture series in Napa with the Women's Heritage Project prior to that.

Her most recent book is an anthology of the sacred writings of 72 women from 25 different spiritual traditions: Talking To Goddess, a collection of blessings, prayer-poems, chants, meditations and invocations (available through Lulu or Amazon.) 

Please visit our Offerings page to find out about scheduling a  complimentary consultation with D'vorah.