[2] She worked as the executive director of the University of Berkeley Hillel from 1990 to 1999, and was the senior associate of Ma'yan: The Jewish Women's Project in Manhattan for seven years before moving to Cleveland.
[2][3] For six of those years she also served the Austin, Texas, congregation Agudas Achim, traveling there during the High Holy Days.
[6] In 2013 she resigned from B'nai Jeshurun Congregation and became the first female rabbi of B’nai Jacob, a Conservative synagogue in New Haven, Connecticut.
[7][1] In 2016 Shapiro was named by The Forward as one of the most inspiring rabbis in America.
She resides in Woodbridge, CT with her husband, David Franklin; they are the parents of two daughters.