Emma Breitman (she/her) is former JWA's Executive and Development Assistant. She grew up in Boulder, Colorado and attended CU Boulder, where she majored in Women and Gender Studies with minors in Ethnic Studies, Spanish and a certificate in LGBT Studies. Emma is very passionate about how media shapes our understanding of race, class, gender and sexuality. Her honors thesis, "Queer Futurity and Hybridity in Arrival and Embrace of the Serpent," explored how the queered, racialized, and Othered groups in the films Arrival and Embrace of the Serpent were seen by hegemonic culture as an infection. 

Raven Schwam-Curtis uses they/she pronouns and identifies as Black and Jewish. They graduated from Cornell University in May 2020 and are currently a PhD student in African American Studies at Northwestern University. Over the last few months they have developed a platform on Tik Tok to create visibility around the beauty and diversity of the Jewish community. You can find them on YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, and of course, TikTok, @ravenreveals. 

Lucy Marshall (she/her) is a Jewish educator, organizer, youth worker, and facilitator based in Minneapolis on Dakota Land. She directs the Rising Tide Open Waters Mikveh Network at Mayyim Hayyim, elevating resources and relationships to ensure that mikveh is accessible and inclusive to all Jewish people and communities. Lucy received her Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Minnesota and is currently pursuing a Master’s in Jewish Education from the Jewish Theological Seminary. Lucy is the 2020-2022 Twersky Education Fellow at the Jewish Women’s Archive and brings abundant experience in Jewish youth engagement, ritual work, and justice movements. She teaches at Shir Tikvah Congregation, organizes with Jewish Community Action, and enjoys swimming, kayaking, and cross-country skiing on the nearby lakes.

Tova Ricardo is an award-winning spoken word poet, writer, and Jewish advocate from the San Francisco Bay Area. As a Black Ashkenazi woman and an emerging Jewish professional invested in Torah, Israel advocacy, and uplifting American Jewish communities of color, Ricardo's community engagement work and writing has been featured in Hillel International, Jewish Journal, Jews of Color Initiative, Jewish Federations of North America, and UJA-Federation of NY. Ricardo has also served as the 2015 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate, was a finalist in the national collegiate poetry slam competition, and is a digital producer at the Tel Aviv Institute. You can find her on Instagram @tovathepoet.

Jen Richler is JWA's content editor and podcast co-producer. Her writing has appeared in JTA, Tablet, and Kveller, among others. She's interested in too many topics to list, but especially Israeli and Jewish culture, educational equity, and parenting. She lives in Bloomington, Indiana with her family. 

Kyla Kupferstein Torres is a writer, educator, and NYC native. Her work can be seen on Lilith.com and LiteraryMama.com, as well as in the anthology The Beigeing of America (2leafpress). She is the 2011 recipient of the Bertha Walker scholarship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. She is the managing editor of the National Magazine Award-winning magazine Stranger’s Guide. She lives in Oakland, CA with her husband and son.