Alysa Stanton (born c. 1964) is an African American Jew. On June 6, 2009, she was ordained as the first African-American female rabbi. In August 2009, she began work as arabbi at Congregation Bayt Shalom, a small majority-white synagogue in Greenville, North Carolina, making her the first African-American rabbi to lead a majority-white congregation. She converted to Judaism and first studied and worked as a psychotherapist. She graduated from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.
