Victoria Alcoset

Victoria’s Ashkenazi family are poor and working class Jews in Southern California, her Latineh family a blend of US and Mexicaneh indigenous. A first generation college graduate (on both sides), […]

Hillary Brooks

Hillary Brooks grew up in the Mid-Hudson Valley in the ½ of 3½ black families in her little town, where there were many Jewish families, but not many observant ones. Hillary’s religious and […]

Rowan Katz

Communications and Administrative Assistant

Justyn Lezin

Justyn is a lifelong resident of the Bay Area, if you don’t count that she lived elsewhere from ages 4 through 24. She feels like she and her family slowly […]

Lia Barrow

Born and raised in Wisconsin, Lia earned a Bachelor of Humanities in Anthropology, Architecture, and French from Carnegie Mellon University, then headed to San Francisco in 1999 to start a […]

Joel Kleinman

Joel grew up in Los Angeles in a mixed family with secular and Jewish traditions. He attended Hebrew school there and became a bar mitzvah at age 13. Joel moved […]

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