![]() Autumn is a member of the Jewish Women of Color Resilience Circle, an Elder member of the Jew of Color Caucus at Jews for Racial and Economic Justice and a core member of the Black Jewish Liberation Collective.Īutumn is a RYT 500 yoga teacher who graduated with a BA in Theater Studies at Yale and holds an MFA in Film from UT Austin. A mother of two, Autumn believes avidly in the importance of play in education, that liberation begins in our bodies, and that you're never too young or too old to start talking and taking action about race! She applies playfulness and progressive education techniques to leading workshops and conversations for parents and kids about race, using yoga and mindfulness techniques through Body Get Free.Ī former chair of the Race Task Force at Kolot Chayeinu and previous Kolot K'tanim early childhood teacher. That combination of justice and story has infused her work ever since.Īutumn has been leading racial and social justice trainings since 2001. ![]() Her love of storytelling began when she was eight years old and accidentally stumbled into a stage debut at the Edinburgh Fringe. Along with family and work, nurturing vibrant communal Jewish life has been a mainstay of her life.Īutumn Leonard (she/they) inherited a love of equality from her parents who braved laws against interracial marriage and got legally hitched in 1960. ![]() Her articles and reviews have appeared in the collected volume Revising Dreyfus: Art and Law (Brill 2014) and Europe through the Eyes of the Other (Wilfred Laurier, 2013), Radical History Review, American Historical Review, French History, Modern and Contemporary France, and H-France. She is the author of Theatre, Politics and Markets in Fin-de-Siècle Paris: Staging Modernity (Palgrave, 2005), Edmond Fleg and Jewish Minority Culture in Twentieth-Century France (under contract with Routledge, UK), editor of The Great War and Artistic Expressions, A Hundred Years On (Peter Lang, forthcoming). A Professor of Modern European, Postcolonial History, and Women’s Studies at Hofstra University, she brings together her interdisciplinary training in Performance Studies and History writing on issues related to cultural production, art and politics, and minority subcultures in modern France and beyond. Sally Charnow has been an active member of Kolot since 2003 and a fellow traveller since the beginning. Laura is dedicated to supporting Kolot to become an anti-racist congregation. Laura sits on the national steering committee of Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employer’s Network, has engaged in Palestine solidarity activism since the late 1980s, and has worked as an organizer of LGBTQ+ youth. They have been active in Jews for Racial and Economic Justice for 30 years, where they have engaged in leadership roles in many JFREJ campaigns including the NY Caring Majority. Laura is an associate professor at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Social Service and life-long organizer and activist. They are a member of the White Anti-Racist Affinity group and their son attends the Children’s Learning Program. They are thrilled to be a part of a community where they can bring together their traditions, politics and spirituality, and where their multiracial, multifaith family is affirmed and embraced. Laura Wernick has been a member of Kolot since 2012, and an occasional visitor at Kolot since the late 1990s.
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