Rabbi Jessy Dressin (she/her/hers) is the Founding Executive Director of Third Space at Shaarei Tfiloh located in the Mondawmin neighborhood in West Baltimore. She has been working as a community rabbi, based in Baltimore, since she was ordained by the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion in 2012. Rabbi Jessy works to build community and bring people together in pursuit of Judaism’s three primary goals: personal meaning making, the imperative to be part of a collective and the obligation to help build a more whole and just world for all its inhabitants.