Shelley Richman Cohen

SHELLEY RICHMAN COHEN is the Founder and Director of The Jewish Inclusion Project, which develops and conducts Disabilities Inclusion Training Programs for Rabbinic Students and is funded in part by a grant from the Ruderman Family Foundation. Shelley is a member of the Boards of Directors of RespectAbility USA, the Foundation for Jewish Camp and Beit Issie Shapiro, an innovator of therapies and programming for children with developmental & physical disabilities in Ra’anana, Israel, and the Board of Governors of Lincoln Square Synagogue in Manhattan. She is an active advocate for the inclusion of children with disabilities in Jewish educational and recreational environments and a contributor on numerous blogs on inclusion and disabilities.

Shelley has spoken in many venues across the US and in Canada on inclusion and inclusion training curriculum development. She worked in politics, both in Washington DC and in New York as a political consultant and as a congressional liaison for a number of non-profit advocacy groups. Shelley has a B.A. from Barnard College of Columbia University.