Hazzan Sabrina Sojourner is a seasoned cantor whose spoken word midrashim create a larger vision of who we are as a people, inspiring us to take better care of ourselves, each other, and our planet. A noted songleader and midrashist for a variety of institutions, Sojourner is also a former lecturer in Women’s Studies at San Francisco State University and has a national reputation as writer, speaker, facilitator, and thought leader on diversity and multiculturalism. She also had an earlier career in politics, serving as the District of Columbia’s shadow representative in Congress from 1997 to 1999; though her position was nonvoting, she was widely regarded as the first out Black lesbian to be elected to Congress. Based in Rockville, MD, she serves the Charles E. Smith Life Communities campus and unaffiliated Jewish families in the Greater Washington, DC, area and across the country, presiding at interfaith marriages and other ceremonies that more traditional clergy may refuse. Sojourner is among many Jewish Women of Color calling on the broader Jewish community to stand together “at the intersection of racism, sexism and anti-Semitism… against white supremacy, patriarchy and religious oppression in all its forms…” In 2018, she launched “Training the Heart to Listen,” a tool for congregations to create transformational conversations for diversity and inclusion, that has been utilized by Jewish communities across America to guide them in their antiracist work. In 2021 she founded a new organization, KHAZBAR, a network and support space for Jews of Color.