Aliza Schwartz (she/her) is a rabbinical student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, expecting to graduate in 2024. Before rabbinical school, Aliza was based in Boston and given the enormous gift of growing up as a leader, organizer, and trainer there. Aliza’s spiritual and political home in Boston is Kavod, a multi-ethnic, multi-racial community led by young Jews, that lives out its values through vibrant Jewish ritual,transformative social justice organizing, and collective responsibility. Aliza served on Kavod’s board for four years and as Board President for two. She worked for three-and-a-half years at the New Israel Fund as Assistant Director for the New England Region, fundraising for and building community around progressive work in Israel/Palestine. She has been a strategy coach and trainer for IfNotNow, especially in the movement’s early years. Aliza is an alumna of AmeriCorps and JOIN for Justice’s Jewish Organizing Fellowship, and served as Community Organizer at Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters. Before that, Aliza spent a year in Israel/Palestine, most meaningfully working with Sudanese and Eritrean Refugees and asylum seekers in South Tel Aviv. Aliza strives to be playing music, throwing a frisbee, or hanging out with a dog as often as possible.
