Rabbi Miriam grew up in an interfaith Secular Humanistic Jewish home in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She received ordination from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in May 2021, and has also received rabbinic, teacher, and entrepreneurial training from the Center for Rabbinic Innovation, Beloved Garden, and SVARA: a traditionally radical yeshiva. During college she spent three summers studying Yiddish language, history, and culture. She graduated from Princeton University in 2012 with a B.A. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Ecology continues to inform how she understands the world and is an important part of her spirituality and political work.