Dr. Adriane Leveen received her Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible from the University of California and her M.S. in Social Work from Columbia University. She served as Senior Lecturer in Hebrew Bible at Hebrew Union College until June, 2024. She is the author of Biblical Narratives of Israelites and their Neighbors: Strangers at the Gate (2017) and Memory and Tradition in the Book of Numbers (2008) and has contributed essays to the Oxford Handbook to Biblical Narrative and The Torah: A Women’s Commentary. She is currently at work on a modern reception history of the book of Job. She is a volunteer and founding member of Jewish Climate Action Network–NYC, on the steering committee of Third Act Faith, serves on Adamah’s Jewish Climate Leadership Council, and a former facilitator of JTREE USA, now part of Adamah.