about

Chloe Zelkha has spent a decade designing transformative group experiences for young people and adults. She loves creating spaces where we can get a taste of the world as it could be.

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Chloe currently serves as an educator with the Jewish Learning Collaborative. She lives in West Philly with her husband, Jesse, and baby, Akiva.

​Previously, Chloe served as the Fellowship Director at Urban Adamah in Berkeley, leading cohorts of emerging adults through semester-long, residential deep dives into sustainable agriculture, Judaism, mindfulness, and social justice. Before that, she worked as a community organizer in Boston, where she trained with JOIN for Justice and built power with young people at The Food Project. After a season of personal loss, she trained as a chaplain at UCSF Mission Bay Hospital’s residency program, offering spiritual care to pediatric and adult patients who were ill and dying and their families, and earning 3 units of CPE. She is the co-founder of the Covid Grief Network—now a project of Reimagine—and the author of Being with Grief, a creative workbook for loss. 

Chloe holds a B.A. in Religion from Carleton College and an M.A. in Education from Harvard University. Her research at Harvard focused on what ritual, game, and performance studies can teach us about designing immersive learning experiences. She is currently a student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where she is a Wexner Graduate Fellow.  

While in rabbinical school, she has been lucky to intern at The Center for Small Town Jewish Life, Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action, the Communal Loss Adaptation Project at Svara, Atra: Center for Rabbinic Innovation, and Centre College, as well as in these synagogues: Anshe Emeth, Wise Temple, and Beth Israel.