Annie Katz, a junior at The Emery/Weiner School in Houston, Texas, is a board member of the Student Government Association and Jewish Life Committee. Her passion for Judaism has allowed her to become an active participant in her synagogue, Congregation Beth Yeshurun; a leadership council member of Houston Holocaust Museum’s Engines of Change program; and a Vice President of her school's Moot Beit Din team. In addition to her Jewish leadership, Annie enjoys playing golf and participating in school theatre productions. In her free time, she loves being with family and friends and making coffee! 

Aviva Ehrenkranz is a sophomore at Garfield High School in Seattle, WA. Aviva is especially proud to be representing Taiwanese people in the Jewish community. At her school, she plays trumpet in jazz band and is on the ultimate frisbee team. Aviva also enjoys performing classical trumpet with the Northwest Brass Choir and attending trumpet events. In her free time, she likes to ski with her family and thrift with her friends.

Clio Petrulis is a junior at Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts. She is a co-head of her school’s Jewish affinity group. She is also very involved in Jewish life at her home synagogue (in Hong Kong!). Clio is an avid member of her school's dance program. In her free time, she likes going to museums and cooking.

Dilan Payne is a junior at Milton Academy in Milton, MA. She adores anything language-related, serving as News Editor for her school's newspaper, leader of her school's Classics Club, and a staff member at her school's literary magazine. She spends her afternoons at her dance studio and recently founded a Special Olympics dance program there. She shares her love of learning by helping out in the kindergarten classrooms at her temple. In her rare moments of free time, you'll find her reading, taking long walks with her dog Oscar, or laughing through another failed round of the New York Times Categories game with her mom.

Emerson Singer is a senior at Evanston Township High School in Evanston, Illinois. She is a youth liaison for JCUA's immigration committee and a member of the JCUA Votes political committee, as well as a former member of Or Tzedek, JCUA's youth community organizing internship. Emerson is also a committed madrech in her synagogue's beit sefer, the youth representative on her synagogue's rabbinical search committee, and on the executive board of her synagogue's high school youth group. In her free time, you can find Emerson drinking coffee, exploring Chicago, thrifting, writing in a really tiny notebook, or mourning the golden age of SNL.

Hannah Gumpert is a junior at New West Charter in Los Angeles, California. She’s been devouring books for as long as she can remember, and she has grown a passion for writing as well—she’s been published in literary magazines including WriteGirl and Joseph’s Inkwell, and she received an American Voices medal from the Scholastic Art and Writing awards. This year, she will also join the editorial staff at the JGIRLS+ magazine. She’s been a part of the Shakespeare Youth Festival for most of her life and is a madricha for hyper first graders at IKAR on Shabbat.

Lily Plum Gartenlaub is a senior at The Seven Hills School in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she is co-director of the DEI council. Outside of school, she captains the Cincinnati Junior Olympic Archery Team, serves on the Pink Ribbon Good High School Advisory Board, and is the music specialist at her synagogue. She has won several local awards for her writing, including a Scholastic Gold Key in Journalism, and is a columnist for the local Jewish newspaper, Cinci Jew Folk. In her free time, you'll likely find her laughing with her friends, playing guitar, or watching Gilmore Girls.

Luna Romero is a senior at Paul D. Schreiber high school in Port Washington, NY. She is a three-season, four-year varsity athlete in soccer, track and field, and lacrosse. Luna is the senior class treasurer and co-president of the Letter Club. Outside of school, Luna is a Youth Ambassador for the Tourette Association of America, and she teaches figure skating and soccer to children with disabilities. Luna recently participated in the Kumi Foundation/Exploration where she began exploring justice through a Jewish lens. Luna loves surfing, live music, long distance bike riding, and nail art.

Madeline Gross is a rising senior at Poly Prep Country Day school in Brooklyn. Madeline is passionate about math, cooking, fashion, literature, and world travel. Madeline’s extracurricular activities include designing sets and costumes for her school’s many shows, leading the women’s entrepreneur club and fashion club, competing in national speech and debate tournaments, serving as a peer tutor and ambassador for her school, active member of the schools GSA, boxing and serving a madrichah and continuing education student at her Brooklyn synagogue, Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope. Madeline is the youngest of three sisters and the older sibling to a 10-year-old labradoodle. In her free time, Madeline loves to cook, ski, hike, run, and travel. She’s also an avid D and D player and knows the words to most Broadway musicals. In college, Madeline hopes to study business and fashion. Madeline is super proud of her Jewish identity and enjoys the Jewish holidays and celebrations with her many cousins and relatives.

Marlo Dabareiner is a senior at St. Mary’s Academy in Portland, Oregon. She is co-president of a nonprofit grant-giving organization, and she volunteers at a nonprofit that organizes writing groups for underserved communities. She serves as editor-in-chief for the school newspaper. As a theater nerd since birth, she is excited to be the stage manager for all of her school’s shows next year and work in a local theater. Marlo participates in an Oregon-based creative writing group and her temple’s youth group. She loves to crochet, thrift, read, write, spend time with friends, and explore new places by herself.

Molly Kurtzer-Ellenbogen is a senior at Georgetown Day School in Washington, DC, where she heads her school's non-male affinity group, edits for the school newspaper, and competes on the Ethics Bowl team. Outside of school, she plays soccer, learns in the Hartman Teen Fellowship, and mentors young newspaper writers at her former elementary school. This past summer, she attended the Medill-Northwestern Journalism Institute, where she studied the ins and outs of writing and reporting. In her free time, Molly enjoys watching bad movies and playing with her dog.

Naomi Beinart is a senior at Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn. She is president of the Jewish Student Alliance and GirlUp affinity space, and also participates in journalism outside of the classroom, including writing for the New York Times (yet still failing to write something for her school newspaper). A fellow in the Hartman Teen Fellowship, Naomi is deeply interested in the moral obligations of a Jew, especially to non-Jews. When she's not editing a new article, Naomi is babysitting for four adorable kids or reading a new, cheesy romance novel (not Colleen Hoover, she promises).

Naomi Granek Brown is a junior at Franklin High School in Portland, Oregon. She is an avid swimmer and swims for both her club and high school swim teams, and she runs cross country with her high school team. She loves reading, writing and science, and during her free time can often be found reading a book, swimming in any available body of water, or hanging out with her friends. She is also a writer for her school newspaper, is very involved with her synagogue, and has served on a local Jewish community youth board.

Orlie Weitzman is a junior at the University of Chicago Lab School. She loves writing and is the Opinion Editor of the award-winning student newspaper, the U-High Midway. She recently co-ran a workshop “Counterspeech to Combat Holocaust Denial” as part of her school’s social justice week. Orlie co-founded her school’s Poets Society, and her poetry won a gold key award in the regional Scholastic Art and Writing Competition. She is an assistant teacher for a creative movement dance class and a song leader at Minyan Katan, a service for the youngest members of her family’s synagogue, Congregation Rodfei Zedek. In her spare time, Orlie loves exploring the city with her friends.

Sarah Feldman is a senior at Imagine International Academy in McKinney, Texas. Sarah's interests are everything Broadway, art, and writing. At school, she is involved in theater, working on sets behind the scenes for various productions. Sarah has been a volunteer and counselor at her synagogue preschool camp for three years. On Sunday mornings she volunteers at Anshai Torah's religious school, teaching Hebrew to elementary aged students. During her free time, Sarah enjoys needlepointing, listening to music, and watching movies—her current favorite is Good Will Hunting.

Sarina Tasman is a sophomore at Rufus King International High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Since graduating from the Milwaukee Jewish Day School, she has been participating in BBYO, a global Jewish youth organization, and is currently serving as her chapter’s religion and social action coordinator. She also attends Congregation Beth Israel Ner Tamid, where she is an active Torah reader. Her love of social justice and feminism comes from spending her summers at Habonim Dror Camp Tavor. In her free time, she loves writing in her Notes app, playing guitar, listening to music, and having conversations at Gilmore Girls speed.

Susannah Abel-Zucker is a senior at Northampton High School in Massachusetts. She is the technical director of her school's theater department, as well as the co-founder and head editor of Flood-Tide, its arts and literary magazine. An aspiring Yiddishist, she has studied at the YIVO Institute in New York and appeared onstage with the Valley Troupe, the Five College Consortium's Yiddish theater troupe. In her rapidly disappearing free time, she writes plays and poetry about Yiddish and queerness and history, plays the harp, reads Wikipedia articles, and makes art with her friends.

Venice Czarnecki-Lichstein is a junior at the University of Chicago Laboratory High School in Chicago, Illinois, where they participate in Girls Who Code, WiStem, and the Jewish Students Association. Outside school, Venice rows at Lincoln Park Boat Club and is on the board of their local BBYO chapter. In their free time, Venice enjoys spending time with friends, reading magazines, and listening to music.

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