Rabbi Laura Geller served as  the Senior Rabbi of Temple Emanuel in Beverly Hills for 22 years. Prior to being chosen for this position in 1994, she served as the Executive Director of the American Jewish Congress, Pacific Southwest Region. Among her accomplishments was the creation of the AJCongress Feminist Center, which became a model for other Jewish feminist projects around the county. She came to AJCongress in 1990 after fourteen years as the Director of Hillel at the University of Southern California.
Rabbi Geller has been recognized with numerous awards and honors, including being named one of Newsweek’s 50 Most Influential Rabbis in America for two years in a row and receiving the California State Legislature’s Woman of the Year Award. She was featured in the PBS Documentary called “Jewish Americans.”  Author of many articles in journals and books, she  served on the Editorial Board of “The Torah: A Woman’s Commentary,” in which she has two essays. Rabbi Geller is a Fellow of the Corporation of Brown University from where she graduated in 1971. She was ordained by the Hebrew Union College in 1976, the third woman in the Reform Movement to become a rabbi. 
Now Rabbi Emerita, she was one of 50 people named an Influencer In Aging for 2017 by PBS’ Next Avenue for her  pioneering initiatives that strive to empower the Baby Boomer generation and beyond. She is a founder of ChaiVilliageLA, the first faith-based Village of older adults seeking to find meaning, insight, resources and support as they age in place. She is  co-authoring a book with with her husband, Richard Siegel called Getting Good at Getting Older: A Jewish Catalog for a New Age  to be published by Behrman House in the fall of 2018.