Margaret Lockman

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Margaret Lockman is a senior at WWP High School South in Princeton, New Jersey. She serves as captain of the swim team, editor-in-chief of her school's yearbook, and vice president of Spectrum, the GSA at her school. She is passionate about social justice and how story telling can be used to enact change. Her poetry has won regional awards in the Scholastic Art and Writing competition. In her free time, you can find her painting while listening to Taylor Swift or curled up with her cat and a good book. 

Blog Posts

Collage of Debbie Friedman with text that reads "And the women dancing with their trimbels followed Miriam as she sang her song"

Debbie Friedman Taught Me to Use My Voice

Margaret Lockman

Friedman inspired and empowered women to speak out. Singing teaches us how to use our voices and discover how powerful they can be.

Collage with ancient Greek sculptures of Orpheus, Eurydice & Hermes, as well as as sheet music, a guitar, and flowers

See the Way the World Could Be: The Feminism of Hadestown

Margaret Lockman

Despite the misogynistic undertones of the original myth, I believe Hadestown promotes a feminist message. 

Topics: Theater
Text reads "I sang then and my song was our sun." with an image of the sun.

Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim: Poetry as Spiritual Resistance

Margaret Lockman

Yet at the moment when her humanity was threatened the most, Basman Ben-Hayim turned to art.

Collage of painted Stars of David

Finding Spirituality Through Art

Margaret Lockman

Religion and art are both about turning individual experiences into community ones.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Margaret Lockman." (Viewed on September 15, 2025) <https://qa.jwa.org/blog/author/lockman-margaret>.