Shira Goodman
VP, Advocacy
As Vice President, Advocacy, Shira Goodman leads the Ronald Birnbaum Center to Combat Antisemitism in Education, the Ratings & Assessments Institute, and our state and local advocacy work.
Shira joined ADL in 2020 as Philadelphia Regional Director and moved to the Government Relations (now National Affairs) Team in 2021, with extensive experience in leading mission-driven advocacy organizations, focusing on gun violence prevention and access to justice issues. Most recently, she served as Executive Director of CeaseFirePa, Pennsylvania’s gun violence prevention organization. Previously, Shira served as Deputy Director of Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts, a court reform organization. Earlier in her career, she worked as a labor and employment attorney at Ballard Spahr.
Shira earned her B.A. from University of Michigan and her law degree from Yale Law School.
