Kohenet Shoshana A. Brown, LMSW, is a healer, educator, and organizer who serves as US Director of Pedagogy and Training for the Diaspora Alliance. Shoshana is a cofounder of the Black Jewish Liberation Collective and a member of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, where they host Beyond The Pale on WBAI 99.5FM.

Their background includes work as a Restorative Justice Practitioner, NYC high school social worker, adjunct professor at CUNY Hunter’s Silberman School of Social Work, syringe exchange program director, and forensic social worker, as well as planning convenings of more than 200 prison activists. Trained in Reiki I, Shoshana weaves earth-based spiritual practice into Judaism through training with the Urban Atabex and the Kohenet Institute for Hebrew Priestesses.

Shoshana is a Black, mixed-race Jewish femme who generates liberation and full selfhood in the essence of love.