lila glenn rimalovski
Lila Rimalovski is currently a Master of Divinity candidate at Harvard Divinity School exploring how ethical, spiritually-grounded leadership might shape systemic change. Lila has led large-scale initiatives across nonprofit, higher education, and civic sectors, ranging from yearlong educational programs to sold out symposiums for 500+ attendees. She is currently training as a chaplain, aiming to bring skills of mediation, spiritual practice, and public communication into the vast corners of institutional and communal life where heart-centered leadership is needed.
education
Master of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School, 2027
B.A., New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study, 2019
awards & residences
Awarded Scholar, The Usona Institute, 2026
Aleph Fellow, The Shalom Center, 2025
Climate Leaders Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment, 2024-2025
Artist-Activist in Residence, The Firehouse, 2023-2024
Artist Fellow, LABA Bay Area, 2023
Residential Fellow, Place Corps, 2019-2020
training
Tending the Spiritual in Psychedelic Care for Community Settings, The Center for the Study of World Religions, 2025
Sitting and Integration Training, The Zendo Project, 2025
Permaculture Design Certificate, The Ecological Literacy Immersion Program, Omega Center for Sustainable Living, 2019
Herbalism Certificate, California School of Herbal Studies, 2022
Social Forestry, Siskiyou Permaculture, 2024
Restoration Ecology, Earth Activist Training, 2024
Non-Violent Communication, Good Work Institute, 2021
Regenerative Facilitation, Regenerate Change, 2021
Mindful Self-Compassion Level 1, Esalen Institute, 2020
Carpentry, Salmon Creek Farm, 2022
Environmental Leadership, National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), 2015 & 2017
lineage
My lines reach deep into the realms of Ashkenazi Jewery. My people have been complaining and eating pickles in Jewish American ghettos for six generations, since my paternal and maternal ancestors arrived to Turtle Island around the turn of the 20th century. My bones come from Poland, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Russia, and other Eastern-European soils obscured by war and borders. Raised on stories of Lower East Side tenements and school fights in Brooklyn, the New York Jew lives large and loud in my family, even though my childhood was shaped in New Jersey. I’m the eldest of 10 first cousins, the only one born on Ramaytush and Ohlone land in Palo Alto, California.
The photo below comes from the book of my great, great grandfather Abraham Hochman, a Jewish mystic and fortune teller feared and revered for his Yiddish wizardry on Rivington Street.
