Deborah J. Grenn, Ph.D., founding kohenet/priestess of Mishkan Shekhinah, is Founder & Director of The Lilith Institute, and Co-Director & Core Faculty at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology's Women’s Spirituality MA Program.  She  co-produced the annual Women’s Rites of Spring Festival in Napa with Leilani Birely since its inception in 2004, through 2007, and co-sponsored the Voice of the Spirit lecture series in Napa with Women's Heritage Project prior to that.
 

Dr. Grenn’s dissertation was an inquiry into South African Lemba and United States Jewish women’s religious/cultural identities, beliefs and ritual practices.  Her other writings include Lilith’s Fire (Universal Publishers, 2000); “How Women Construct And Are Formed By Spirit: She Who Is Everywhere In Women’s Voices” (She Is Everywhere, Volume I, Lucia Birnbaum, ed. 2005) and “Connecting with Deity through a Feminist Metaformic Theology” (Metaformia, 2005). Her article “Lilith’s Fire: Re-reading Sacred Texts” appeared in the Feminist Theology journal in September 2007. She is currently working on a book with Luisah Teish and Leilani Birely entitled The Mirror in the Water, and recently edited an anthology, Talking To Goddess, a collection of blessings, meditations and invocations.