Talia Werber

Briya Project Founder & Instructor

Talia is a playwright, poet, visual artist, and student in the ordination program at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She has spent years studying playwriting, improv, storytelling, and television production, and deepening Jewish connections, including through recently serving as the Social Action Committee Chair at West End Synagogue.

She grew up in Queens, NY, granddaughter of Holocaust survivors and daughter of immigrants, and studied at Solomon Schechter schools from K-12. She has lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan since attending Barnard College, where she majored in Sociology and Film and graduated in the class of 2002. She attended Cardozo Law School, class of 2009, concentrating in Constitutional Law and Rights and Public Law and Regulation, and studying mediation and conflict resolution to facilitate democratic dialog. After law school, she worked in New York City and State politics, with a focus on government structures and accountability, voting and democratic rights, and civics education. 

A lifelong learner with many creative projects, Talia loves to write, cook, and think about the stories we tell and retell, how we use them to pass on pain and joy, and how we can use them to build justice and peace.