Rabbi Hugh Seid-Valencia

Senior Director of Collaborative Leadership and Jewish Engagement, Jewish Silicon Valley

Rabbi Hugh Seid-Valencia is Senior Director of Collaborative Leadership and Jewish Engagement at Jewish Silicon Valley.

In his current role, Rabbi Hugh serves as a primary connector between Jewish Silicon Valley and the wider regional Jewish community’s professional and lay leadership, sparking a spirit of creativity and innovation, and helping establish a culture of collaboration. He  previously served as Jewish Community Liaison for VITAS Healthcare and prior to that, spent ten years teaching Jewish Studies at Kehillah Jewish High School in Palo Alto, where he served most recently as Director of Israel and Jewish Studies Curricula. After studying at Deep Springs College, he earned a B.A. with Highest Honors in English Literature from UC Berkeley and received his rabbinical training from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. He has completed both the Rabbinic Leadership Training Program and the Tikkun Middot Training Program of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality and is an alumnus of the Mandel Executive Leadership Program. He teaches and lectures on Jewish approaches to: leadership, parenting, meditation, perspectives on the afterlife, ethical dilemmas in extending life, and reading and writing ethical wills.