Maytal Saltiel

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University Chaplain
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Maytal is the 8th Yale University Chaplain and the first University Chaplain who is Jewish. She comes to this leadership role after serving 10 years as an Associate Chaplain at Yale. As University Chaplain, she oversees religious and spiritual life on campus.

Maytal has been part of  the Chaplain’s Office since 2013. Her work is primarily focused on interreligious dialogue, pastoral care, working with smaller religious groups, helping students develop their own faith and sense of meaning, and helping everyone breathe a little deeper. She works with the InterFaith Forum at Yale (IFFY), Chaplain’s Office Peer Liaisons, Chaplaincy Fellows, Feasting on Faith, Study Breaks and weekly book groups. 

Prior to coming to Yale, Maytal worked as the Repair the World Coordinator at Penn Hillel, connecting students to service opportunities, encouraging conversations around social justice issues and teaching on the Jewish responsibility of service. She earned her MDiv degree from Harvard Divinity School in 2012, interning at Brown University’s Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life. She has also worked as the programming coordinator at the Interfaith Center at Johns Hopkins University and a fourth grade Special Education teacher. Maytal also served as the inaugural president of ACSLHE (Association for Chaplaincy and Spiritual Life in Higher Education). She is also a fellow in Silliman College.