Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

University of Wisconsin, Madison. Graduated 2019. Bachelor of History, Certificate of Educational Policy. Studied in Lynda Barry’s Comix studio, 2018-2019

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EMPLOYMENT

ADVISOR AT JUDAISM UNBOUND’S UNYESHIVA CERTIFICATE PROGRAM (2023 – PRESENT)

Advises students of the UnYeshiva Certificate Program in matters of course work, projects, and spiritual needs. Supports students of all ages in finding classes that fit their passions, meeting with them for personal and professional development.

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR & CONSULTANT FOR FRAGMENTS MAGAZINE, T’RUAH (2022 – PRESENT)

Illustrating, designing, and leading graphics communication for T’ruah’s new magazine out of the Emor Institute, “Fragments.” Initially hired on as a publication consultant, this position has turned into a collaborative freelance role in producing the magazine on a quarterly basis, following the Jewish calendar year.

EDITOR IN CHIEF & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NEW VOICES MAGAZINE & JEWISH STUDENT PRESS SERVICE (2020 – 2023)

Editing and steering JSPS’s publication, New Voices Magazine, while overseeing journalism mentorship, coordinating fellowships and annual programming, including the Jewish Student Media conference, “Gender Justice in Jewish Media” in 2022. Spearheaded two major investigations into sexual harassment in Jewish youth spaces. As Executive Director, managed the budget, finances, and administrative capacities of the Jewish Student Press Service (JSPS).

REPAIR THE WORLD SPRING VOLUNTEER FELLOW (2023)

Volunteering with various local community organizations including the Met Council On Jewish Poverty and the Crown Heights Food Pantry while engaging with weekly Jewish cohort learning.

STUDENT HISTORIAN IN RESIDENCE & OUTREACH ASSISTANT, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN ARCHIVES (2017 – 2019)

Served as Student Historian in Residence during the program’s pilot year at the University of Wisconsin Archives researching Vietnam War-era student activism, leading archival peer education workshops, and creating an oral history project documenting modern-day student activists. Later, as Outreach Assistant, planned and facilitated peer education workshops and events about communal memory and archives.

ARTS AND LITERATURE LABORATORY (ALL) TEACHING ARTIST (SEASONAL 2017 – 2019)

Mentored middle and high school students at a summer and after school arts & writing program, co-facilitating classes with other teaching artists, and independently teaching comics and cartooning during the summer. This work also included facilitating art programming at “Teens Like Us”, an after school program for queer youth at the Briarpatch Center in Madison, Wisconsin.

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LEADERSHIP & INITIATIVES

Presented at The American Psychological Association’s Division 39 Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology Conference (2024) as the Editor of Deviance Magazine on a panel discussion, giving a talk on the relationship between pornographic publication, erotic imagination, and psychotheraputic practice.

Presented at Barnard’s STEM Conference (2024) with talk “Crowdsourcing the Science: Lessons From The Testosterone Survey Zine”, highlighting best practices for democratizing data and humanizing marginalized research populations through illustration and art.

Organized, wrote, and published “The Testosterone Survey Zine” (Summer 2022), the 60-page illustrated results of a 73 question survey with almost 400 respondents describing their experiences medically transitioning on testosterone, designing the survey, graphics, analysis, and layout from start to finish. To date, this is the most extensive qualitative collection of trans-health related experiences compiled in one document, created as a resource for transgender people, as well as medical professionals and researchers.

As New Voices Magazine editor, spearheaded and edited viral investigations about gender and sexual injustice in the Jewish world, including the impacts of toxic sexual cultures in Jewish high school youth groups (2021), and a separate investigation into the impacts of summer camp norms on LGBTQ+ youth (2022).

Co-created “The Resilient Writers Fellowship”, (2021) a collaborative fellowship between New Voices Magazine and the Institute for Jewish Spirituality for ten college-aged fellows to explore the intersection of spirituality, embodiment, Judaism, and creativity.

Served as a democratically-elected member of the Madison Community Cooperative’s Board of Directors for one year (2021) while living in Ambrosia Housing Cooperative in Madison, Wisconsin, helping steer and steward the organization’s mission to provide affordable housing to residents of Madison, with special attention to marginalized and low-income people.

Curated a teaching kit about the 1969 Black Student Strike at University of Wisconsin to honor the event’s 50th anniversary. Collaborating with many community members to build this collection of primary and secondary source materials on local racial justice, as well as multidisciplinary discussion guides and other tools. This kit has been used in local high school and college level curricula.

Fundraised a Kickstarter to independently publish “Gender Euphoria,” an anthology of art and writing from 15 different contributors about the joy of being transgender and non-binary.

Created educational materials and taught workshops about gender and sexuality for organizations and schools, leading and offering educational event aimed at teens and adults with over 120 attendees. Led workshops at UW-Madison for LGBTCC and Residential Housing communities, and hired for Staff Gender Sensitivity Training at OSRUI for two years (2016, 2017) to lead an hour and a half workshop about the needs of transgender and non-binary people at overnight camp.