Jewish & Social Justice

Much of my work focuses on issues of social justice, marginalized communities, and unsung figures of history. In the tumultuous summer of 2020, revived social justice activism and encroaching U.S. Fascism drove me to explore the politically radical history of the early 20th century Jewish community. We – Jews – are commonly thought of as having been weak victims desperately hiding from our oppressors, when in fact we were fiercely resisting. My “Ner Tamid” series of illustrations honors the women who played a prominent role in the partisan resistance brigades of the Holocaust. Photographs of these women radiate a defiance and even outright joy in the face of brutal oppression, which is something seldom included in our education.