Shea is chairman of the board of NCFJE ( National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education). He is a Rabbi and activist in the Jewish community. He can be reached at rabbishea@aol.com  

More than a decade ago , Shea Hecht came to national prominence as a community leader during the Crown Heights conflict in New York.

As a result, he was awarded with numerous awards by both government and private organizations for his work in fostering racial harmony. Shea was a member of Mayor Giuliani’s task force on police/community relations. He also received the Community Relations Award from the American Jewish Committee for his leadership of the Crown Heights Coalition, seen as a model for healing a polarized community. For seven years, Shea Hecht was a Commissioner of Human Rights for the city of New York. 

Since then as a chairman of the Board at the National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education he has continued the tradition of social services management and outreach that began with his father, the late Rabbi Jacob J. Hecht. 

Shea is a lecturer at the Ivy League Torah Study Program and a co-founder of the Ari Program, a school for at-risk kids. 

Shea was talk show host on WWRL 1600, a popular morning show, for two years. 

As a life strategist, his expertise centers on family crisis intervention- particularly as a marriage counselor and helping troubled youths, drugs and cults counselor, fostering racial harmony and diversity, community activism/religious based initiative, and a liaison between the government/law enforcement and the people. 

Shea is available to lecture on any of the above mentioned topics.