Nora Auburn

2022-23 Rising Voices Fellow Nora Auburn

Nora Auburn is a junior at the Bronx High School of Science in New York City. She is the secretary of her school's Model UN team, where she enjoys researching global issues and debating geopolitical conflicts. She worked with her peers to plan 2022’s NYC Climate Strike, where tens of thousands of students walked out of school to protest climate inaction. Nora loves playing guitar and producing music with her friends and family. You can probably find her studying Russian, creating an elaborate sandwich, or talking a walk in the park with her friends.

Blog Posts

Stack of books against collage of the Ukrainian and Russian flags

The Enemy is Putin, Not Pushkin: Literature and Free Expression during the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Nora Auburn

Masha Gessen’s departure from PEN is about artist versus art institution, colonial power versus subject, and the paradoxical notion of uplifting some voices by silencing others.

Collage of Bessie Hillman on orange and yellow patterned background

Lessons on the Labor Movement from Bessie Hillman

Nora Auburn

No one figure serves as the champion of the early 20th-century union movement, but Bessie Abramowitz Hillman comes close.

Outlined drawings of New York City skyline, Star of David necklace, and subway cars

Wearing My Star of David Necklace, Loud and Proud

Nora Auburn

The thought of wearing something that declared my Judaism felt strange.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Nora Auburn." (Viewed on November 2, 2024) <http://qa.jwa.org/blog/author/auburn-nora>.