Meet Our Members
Our members span a wide range of disciplines, research interests, career stages, and organizations/universities. We strive to be a collaborative group that supports each other's efforts and growth. To learn more about our group, below are profiles of some of our members. You can also search by areas of expertise.
Miri Bar-Halpern
Dr. Miri Bar-Halpern is a clinical psychologist, trauma specialist, and Lecturer in Psychology at Harvard Medical School. Her work focuses on traumatic invalidation, antisemitism, identity-based trauma, and radicalization prevention. She develops trauma-informed approaches to strengthen Jewish belonging and help K–12 schools better support students experiencing antisemitism and identity-based harm.
Liz Berger
Liz Berger is a scholar and practitioner whose work within Neurodivergence spans more than two decades and includes public and independent school contexts and medical institutions with child and adult populations. She works as a Research Consultant with UNESCO on international projects that implement antisemitism education training for educators and policymakers globally. She is a PhD student in Antisemitism Studies at Gratz College, and her research focuses on inclusion building and strengthening when advocating for multiply marginalized people.
Jennifer Goldstein
Dr. Jennifer Goldstein's areas of specialization are educational leadership and policy, in particular at the intersection of teacher leadership. Her work focuses on improving the quality of teachers and teaching in schools serving children living in poverty and children of color.
Deborah Greenblatt
Dr. Deborah Greenblatt is an Associate Professor of Multicultural Early Childhood and Elementary Education at Medgar Evers College, The City University of New York. She has a Ph.D. in Urban Education from The CUNY Graduate Center and is an Academic Engagement Network Faculty Fellow.
Elizabeth Joy Erwin
Dr. Elizabeth Joy Erwin is Professor at Montclair State University, New Jersey where she prepares graduate and doctoral teacher education students to think critically, reflect deeply and teach inclusively. Her work has been shaped by disability-justice and equity-based teaching in early childhood — locally, nationally, and globally.
Sivan Komatsu
Sivan Komatsu is a school psychology PhD candidate at the University of Washington, and she is completing her predoctoral internship at Cognitive and Behavioral Consultants in White Plains, NY. Sivan previously worked as the school psychologist at Northwest Yeshiva High School, a Jewish high school near Seattle.
Aryah Landsberger
Aryah Somers Landsberger is a systems change strategist with more than 25 years of experience spanning research, law, philanthropy, public policy, and organizational strategy. Her research examines how school culture and organizational decision-making influence the implementation of policies and interventions intended to address antisemitism and strengthen Jewish belonging in K–12 schools.
Lori Laster
Lori Ann Laster is a PhD Candidate in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota. Her scholarly path into Jewish studies began in theater, where she specialized in dramaturgy and the history of antisemitic stereotypes on the stage: work that produced "Anatomy of a Stereotype" and earned her a Jerome Foundation Fellowship.
Jana Lo Bello Miller
Jana Lo Bello Miller is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities where she teaches elementary preservice teachers. Her teaching aligns with her scholarly interests around equity-based practices in teacher preparation, climate literacy, and writing pedagogies.
Keitha-Gail Martin-Kerr
Dr. Keitha-Gail Martin-Kerr is a Teaching Professor and Associate Chair for Strategic Impact in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota. Her scholarship is situated at the intersection of collective memory work, feminist pedagogy, and teacher education, and she approaches teaching as both an intellectual and relational practice, with a sustained commitment to equity, humanization, and belonging.
Rebecca Muhlbauer
Rebecca Muhlbauer is a third-year doctoral student in School Psychology at the University of Kentucky. She is currently conducting a study measuring antisemitism among school psychologists. Her research goals seek to identify factors associated with antisemitism in schools, explore its impact on students and schools, and investigate how it can be effectively addressed and prevented.
Meir Muller
Rabbi Dr. Meir Muller is the Associate Dean of Community Empowerment at the College of Education, University of South Carolina. His research focuses on Pro-Blackness and Pro-Jewishness in education, combating antisemitism, anti-racist pedagogies, and early childhood education.
Emma Nicosia
Emma Nicosia (she/her) is a fifth-year doctoral candidate in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota. Her research employs qualitative methods to understand how Christian hegemony and antisemitism impact educational experiences.
David Shriberg
David Shriberg, PhD, is a Professor of School Psychology, Chair of the Department of Applied Psychology in Education and Research Methodology, and an Affiliated Faculty of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism at Indiana University. His research focus is supporting Jewish youth in K-12 schools, with an emphasis on systems-level consultation and working directly with Jewish youth.