Shoshana A Brown

Kohenet Shoshana A Brown, LMSW is a healer, educator, and organizer. She organizes to transform the prison system as well as organizing with Jews of Color. As an educator, Shoshana works is a Dean/Social Worker in a 6-12th grade school in the South Bronx, and is also an adjunct professor at (Hunter) Silberman School of Social Work teaching the class she once advocated and organized to create: Practice Lab on Anti-oppressive Social Work Practice. She has facilitated and planned conferences and convenings of more than 200 prison activists, smaller workshops and retreats on the Paulo Freire methodology, social work engagement, trauma, and group work. Shoshana is an Infinite Possibilities trainer and supports individuals working on taking action in their life and creating their dreams. As a healer, she is trained in Reiki I and weaves earth based spiritual practice into Judaism through her training from the Urban Atabex and Kohenet Institute for Hebrew Priestesses. Shoshana is fierce, loving, and energetic. She is a Black- mixed race Jewish femme who hails from the Bronx and has made her home in Washington Heights while still working in Hunt’s Point, New York.