Becca Leviss

Becca Leviss' remarks will be given via pre-recorded video

Through her studies, research, and career, Becca Leviss brings deep curiosity and commitment to the interplay between faith, community, and identity, specifically, how we balance and navigate all three to build more intentional and resilient relationships with each other and the institutions that govern us. After graduating from Tufts University, Becca helped build the fundraising team at Protect Democracy — a leading nonprofit in the U.S. democracy movement — where she managed institutional giving and major gifts while helping the broader philanthropic sector coalesce around urgent democracy issues.

As a current candidate for a master’s in theological studies at Harvard Divinity School, Becca explores the ongoing relationships between Black and Jewish scholarship and activism and how those insights can inform critical frameworks to envision and build expansive futures for Jewish identity and a pluralistic democracy. Drawing on her recent experience with Democracy 2076 — a democracy futurism organization — and Mormon Women for Ethical Government, she investigates the role of religious and ethical frameworks to teach and encourage power-building and civic engagement practices. She has presented and taught her work in various settings, including Lehrhaus’s House of Learning, Judaism Unbound’s UnYeshiva, and the Jews and Black Theory Conference at the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies.