BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange

Modern/Contemporary & Creative Movement Teacher

New York, NY

September 2022 - present

• Created semester curriculum and weekly lesson plans in Modern/Contemporary Dance and Creative Movement

• Resident Teaching Artist at Luria Academy for children ages 2-5, teaching classes of 25 children

• Engages with the pedagogy of care, trauma-informed pedagogy, and anti-racist pedagogy to create an equitable and safe community within the class

School of Creative Judaism

Creative Judaism Teacher; B’nai Mitzvah Tutor

New York, NY

February 2021 - present

• Tutor for B’nai Mitzvah students: encourages student analysis of Torah studies in order to find authentic, personal connection to Torah ceremony

• Instructs on Hebrew chanting and prayer

• Created semester curriculum and weekly lesson plans in Creative Jewish studies, pulling from traditional Jewish tradition such as the Torah, Jewish holidays, and Hebrew language study and combining with performing and visual arts

• Engaged an anti-racist and anti-colonial pedagogy to actively reframe contemporary Judaism in a diasporic context, rejecting a Zionist Israel-centered understanding of Jewish learning