Educator Biography

Tani Prell’s (she/her) life and career have been centered around education, Judaism, and the arts, with a commitment to equity and belonging as a thread throughout. Tani is the Creative Director for Be’chol Lashon, a national Jewish nonprofit focused on raising awareness around racial and ethnic Jewish diversity, and she is an anti-racism educator and consultant. Tani serves on the Executive Board of the Union for Reform Judaism, where she is involved in aiding the Reform movement’s commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion.

She has her BA in Creative Writing from Macalester College, and MA in Jewish Professional Studies from The Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning, where her capstone focused on how Jewish nonprofit boards might diversify to reflect the diversity of our Jewish population. She is a former arts educator, synagogue education director, and Chicago Director for 18Doors formerly InterfaithFamily. In 2018 she was named one of the Chicago Federation's 36 Under 36 and was a 2022 recipient of the WRJ's Women's Empowerment Award. Tani is especially interested in the intersection of race, the arts, and Judaism.