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.

Elizabeth Joy Erwin

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.

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Zahava Feldstein
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Zahava Feldstein

Zahava Feldstein is an educational strategist, curriculum designer, scholar, and translator of ideas whose work and research span Ethnic Studies and Jewish Studies. Her expertise centers on teaching complex and contested subjects through historically grounded, inquiry-based approaches and building frameworks that enable meaningful engagement across political and intellectual differences. She holds an M.A. in Divinity from the University of Chicago and an M.A. in Education from Stanford University, where she was a Jim Joseph Doctoral Fellow, and is completing a Ph.D. in Antisemitism Studies at Gratz College. A Postdoctoral Fellow at the London Center for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, she has published in the Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism, Times of Israel, Moment Magazine, and Tikkun on Ethnic Studies, antisemitism and racialization, critical pedagogy, collective memory, Jewish history, including Zionism and anti-Zionism, diaspora, and contemporary public discourse. She currently leads strategic initiatives across K–12 and higher education focused on Ethnic Studies, Jewish inclusion and antisemitism education, including editing the ES Resources Educator Bulletin, developing original curriculum, and launching the Ethnic Studies Curriculum Innovation Fellowship for California educators.

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Andrea Harris
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Andrea Harris

Andrea is the Director of Faculty and Community Relations for Hillel at UCLA. She is grateful for the opportunity to bring her extensive experience as a higher education administrator, as well as a background in Jewish communal work to support Jewish faculty (and staff) and work with the community to combat antisemitism at UCLA, and higher education as a whole. Andrea was active at the Hillel at the University of Pennsylvania, and while there was able to work with a theater group that enabled observant Jewish students to participate in performing arts while still being able to celebrate Shabbat and all chagim. Most recently, Andrea was an award-winning administrator at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA where she supported students and faculty for over 20 years.

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Keitha-Gail Martin-Kerr

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.

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Jordan Rappaport
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Jordan Rappaport

Jordan Rappaport is an education consultant, curriculum designer, and educator whose work, practice, and research span equity and inclusive education, Jewish identity and peoplehood, and the experiences of Jewish students in K–12 schools. His research interests include anti-Judaism, antisemitism and antizionism, and Holocaust education, while his curriculum and professional learning work focuses on translating complex histories, ideas, and contemporary Jewish experiences into historically grounded, intellectually rigorous, and developmentally appropriate learning, with particular attention to gaps in Holocaust education and Jewish communities and experiences often underrepresented in K–12 education. He is pursuing graduate studies in Antisemitism Studies at Gratz College, with current research examining antizionism and its institutional pathways in K–12 education, including how ideas acquire legitimacy and move through educational institutions into curriculum and professional practice. Drawing on more than two decades in public education, his work bridges research and practice to deepen understanding of Jewish life and experience while advancing access, inclusion, and belonging for all students, including Jewish

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