Peri Smilow is a contemporary Jewish music composer/performer/recording artist and national touring musician. She enjoyed a 25+ year career travelling throughout the US, UK, Israel and Singapore using her music as a tool for social change and Jewish connectivity.

Peri is also an educator and non-profit entrepreneur with experience creating, running and consulting to change-making non-profit organizations.  She holds an MEd from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Peri has lived in Israel and speaks Hebrew.

Peri currently serves as the Executive Director of the Shards of Light Foundation (www.shardsoflight.org) and as Artist-in-Residence at Hevreh of Southern Berkshire in Great Barrington, MA.  She is a proud board member of Music to Life, a non-profit organization connecting socially conscious musicians with the mentors, resources and training needed to realize their bold visions for community change. Peri is proud to be the recipient of an ARZA lifetime achievement award. She is most proud of her role as mom to daughter Allie.