Shahanna McKinney-Baldon
Educator and advocate Shahanna McKinney-Baldon is an African-American Jewish educator, advocate, and artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In the 1990s, she was an early adopter of the term “Jews of Color.” In 2022, she launched a research and performance project on the great African-American khaznte Madame Goldye Steiner, locating her then-unmarked grave and collaborating with contemporary cantorial revivalists to lift up her story.