Her areas of expertise are the Hebrew Bible and ancient Near Eastern Studies. Raised in an interreligious home (Jewish and Protestant) and herself Roman Catholic, Dr. Leonard-Fleckman is deeply committed to interreligious and ecumenical dialogue. This commitment was core to her training at Union Theological Seminary in New York (M.Div., 2008) and at New York University (Ph.D., Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, 2014). It is also essential to how she teaches the Hebrew Bible in Christian contexts, introducing students to Jewish interpretations and showing them how an intimate knowledge of the Hebrew Bible is essential for understanding the contexts of the New Testament and Christianity. She is thrilled to have joined the Jewish-Catholic Theological Exchange committee in 2017.​