Everyone from the Greater New Haven faith community is invited for our Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Interfaith Service online. We are excited and honored to welcome Dr. Deitra Reiser to deliver the keynote sermon.

Deitra Reiser, PhD (she/her) is the founder and principal of Transform for Equity, LLC an Antiracist Repair Group (TFE). Her experience as the inaugural co-chair of the diversity and equity committee at her synagogue spurred her to begin TFE in 2020. Deitra partners with nonprofits and synagogues to further racial equity and justice within the organization.

Learn more about Dr. Reiser below.

Faith leaders from the Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Bahai, and Unitarian traditions will join Rabbi Immerman and Cantor Giglio to lead our engergizing and inspiring service honoring Dr. King’s legacy

Anyone is welcome to join us in person or online via the livestream

More about dr. Deitra Reiser

Deitra believes that organizations will transform into equitable spaces through individual internal change which is then harnessed to drive intentional systemic change. She is skilled at creating spaces for people to explore their identities using intersectional identities as a frame often through the facilitated curriculum she designed called Buidling Racial Stamina in the Jewish Community. The experience allows participants to understand and reflect on how race and racism impact self-identity, society and institutions in order to make antiracist choices.

She has partnered with the Union for Reform Judaism, National Council for Jewish Women, and Shalom Hartman Institute along with other Jewish organizations across the country. Deitra has close to 20 years of experience as a school psychologist. She is an alumna of Bend the Arc’s Selah Leadership Program, a Schusterman Fellow and holds a doctorate in Educational Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In her free time, you can find her laughing and chatting with the people she loves (including her 2 daughters), hiking, being active, binging shows or reading a book with coffee in hand.