Pioneering spiritual teacher and Wiccan High Priestess Phyllis Curott is also an Ivy League attorney and the internationally best-selling author of Book of Shadows, WitchCrafting: A Spiritual Guide and The Love Spell.

H.Ps. Curott was honored by Jane Magazine, along with Hilary Clinton, as one of the Ten Gutsiest Women of the Year. A religious freedom and interfaith activist, Curott is a member of the eminent Assembly of World Religious Leaders and was one of the finalists for the Walter Cronkite Faith and Freedom Award. She has addressed the Parliaments of the World’s Religions as a keynote speaker and participated in the planning of the United Nation’s Beijing Forum on the Status of Women, addressing the Forum on the topic of the status of women and the world’s religions. H.Ps. Curott is also a participant in the Harvard University Religious Pluralism Project’s Consultation on Religious Discrimination and Accommodation.

Described by New York Magazine as one of the culture’s most intellectually cutting-edge speakers, Curott lectures and teaches internationally. She has been widely profiled in the national and international media as an outspoken advocate for religious freedom and tolerance. Curott is co-founder of the Religious Liberties Lawyers Network and a long standing member of the American Civil Liberties Union. She has successfully won the right of Wiccan clergy to perform legally binding marriages and rituals in public parks; secured the rights of practitioners to wear symbols of their faith in schools and places of employment; and has consulted on numerous other religious liberties cases.

H.Ps. Curott is founder of the Temple of Ara, one of the oldest Wiccan congregations in America. Her tradition of Wicca is a shamanic spirituality rooted in the pre-Christian Goddess traditions and dedicated to the experience and ethics of immanent divinity. She is also President Emirita of the Covenant of the Goddess, the oldest and largest international Wiccan religious organization. She has served as a guest minister at the Unitarian Universalist Church and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine Church in New York City.

Curott received her B.A. in philosophy from Brown University and her Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law.