
Shira Goodman
Shira Goodman is a member of ADL’s Government Relations, Advocacy and Community Engagement (GRACE) Team. She serves as Director of Campaigns and Outreach, coordinating state advocacy across ADL’s 25 Regional offices, developing engagement opportunities for volunteers, and fostering partnerships with civil society organizations. Prior to that, she served as the Regional Director of the Anti-Defamation League's Philadelphia Region, which serves Eastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey and Delaware.
For seven years before joining the ADL, Shira served as the Executive Director of CeaseFirePA, a statewide organization working to end the epidemic of gun violence in Pennsylvania and across the country. Under Shira's leadership, CeaseFirePA became one of the strongest state organizations fighting gun violence and a key partner in the local, state and national gun violence prevention movements. Prior to that, Shira worked as Deputy Director of Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts, a non-profit working for fair courts and equal access to justice, and as a labor lawyer at Ballard Spahr.
Shira is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Yale Law School.