lila glenn rimalovski

Lila Rimalovski helps people and organizations make meaning of their work and of their lives. She thinks, writes, and teaches at the intersection of spirituality and social change. Practically, Lila designs programs and facilitates spiritual care across the sacred, profane, and mundane — from rituals to psychedelic spaces, hospitals, universities, organizations, and beyond. Currently pursuing her Master of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School, her research spans consciousness, mysticism, chaplaincy, psychedelic studies, religion, leadership, and psychology. She is a recipient of the Edward Hopkins Shareholder Award and her research has been supported by the Usona Institute, Harvard Radcliffe, and the Harvard Divinity School Office of Ministry Studies. Lila is currently based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and also calls the forests of Northern California home.

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education

  • Master of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School, 2027

  • B.A., New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study, 2019

awards & residences

  • Award Recipient, 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

  • 400 Hours of Interfaith Hospital Chaplaincy, Clinical Pastoral Education at Stanford Hospital, 2026

  • 400 Hours of Psychedelic Chaplaincy, Harvard Divinity School, 2025-2026

  • 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.