Dr. Chaya Sima Koenigsberg is a Resident Scholar at the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University and an instructor at Stern College for Women. She received her BA in psychology from Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women and MA and PhD in Jewish philosophy from Yeshiva University’s Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies. While pursuing her graduate studies, Chaya Sima served as a member of the Judaic studies faculty and 9th grade mechaneches at Manhattan High School for Girls in NYC and Shevach High School in Queens, NY. She holds a teaching certificate from Michlalah Jerusalem College for Women in Israel and completed the Educational Leadership Advancement Initiative program through the Lookstein Center at Bar-Ilan University.
