Avremi Zippel

Raised in the Salt Lake Jewish community, Avremi returned to serve his community in 2014, taking on the position of Program Director at Chabad Lubavitch of Utah. Among his responsibilities were the creation and maintenance of Chabad’s presence on social media, and improving and innovating various family-friendly programs, such as Jewish Heritage Night with the Utah Jazz, and others. In 2016, Avremi and his wife Sheina founded Young Jewish Professionals Utah, which has since grown to become the most prominent community of its kind across the State, providing networking, spiritual and humanitarian offering to young men and women in their 20s and 30s. In 2019, Avremi testified publicly about the decade of sexual abuse he endured at the hands of a family caregiver as part of the criminal proceedings against her. Believed to be the first Orthodox Rabbi to speak out on the topic, it has sparked a career in the advocacy space for Avremi, as he has become a sought after speaker and mentor to communities around the world grappling with this challenge among other mental health related issues. In 2021, Avremi was nominated to serve a four-year term on the Utah Council on Victims of Crime, a committee put in place by the State of Utah’s Legislature.