Lisa Langer
Connector & Gatherer, Question Poser, Tennis Lover
Lisa Langer, RJE, currently serves as Director, Strategic Congregational Initiatives with the Union for Reform and as a Clinical Faculty Mentor for the Executive M.A. Program in Jewish Education at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. She has been a leader and practitioner, mentor and consultant in the field of Jewish educational innovation and synagogue change for more than 30 years. Her experience spans all spaces where Jewish community thrives, including congregations, camps, central agencies, day schools and homes. In addition to her current roles, some career highlights include: serving as a founding director of Shabbaton – a family education program at Congregation Beth Am in Los Altos Hills, CA, a leader in the Experiment in Congregational Education and the B’nai Mitzvah Revolution programs, a teacher in the Family Education Fellows program at the Bureau of Jewish Education of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, an Alumni-In-Residence and visiting scholar on the Los Angeles campus of HUC-JIR, faculty at URJ camps: Swig, Newman, 6 Points Sports-CA and Kutz, Regional Educator for the URJ Pacific Northwest Region, author of numerous blog pieces and articles.
Lisa is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Jewish Religious Education from HUC-JIR in 2019. Lisa currently proudly serves on the boards of the ARJE and Sinai Memorial Chapel.
She loves to play tennis, gather and make memories with family and friends, spend time at the beach and on hiking trails, and take advantage of her good fortune of living in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, Dan Siegel, and their young adult sons.