Rabbi Miriam Cotzin Burg is a dreamer and a doer, a teacher and a learner. She has been inspired and delighted by the adults, children and families with whom she has worked throughout her career, and is especially grateful to the expectant parents who have invited her into their journeys. Rabbi Miriam has served as a spiritual leader and Jewish educator in communities, congregations, day schools, and overnight camps. Two years ago she founded Hava NaBaby: Jewish Childbirth Education, an entrepreneurial venture focused on weaving together childbirth preparation with Jewish wisdom and spiritual practice to meet the needs of expectant parents. Equally important, Hava NaBaby builds community among those traveling the path to and through parenthood at the same time and invites expectant parents to reflect on big questions about what matters.

Rabbi Miriam was ordained in 2002 at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion where she also earned a Master’s degree in Jewish Education. She is a 1996 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the Honors College at the University of Michigan. She is also a certified Childbirth Educator through the International Childbirth Education Association, a graduate of the Atra Rabbinic Innovation Fellowship, Upstart's Uplift Fellowship and is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship.

Rabbi MIriam lives in Baltimore with her husband, Rabbi Daniel Burg, and is a grateful mom to two children, Eliyah and Shamir.