Sassoon Brown is a senior rabbinical student at JTS. Before starting school, Sass grew up and worked in Raleigh, North Carolina, running programs and songleading for organizations across the community. Sass is passionate about words, tunes, and rituals, and hopes to continue to lead with a sense of inheritance and creativity. They wrote a book of poems, The Shortest Skirt in Shul, which is available through Ben Yehuda Press.