Leora Kling Perkins, from Needham, MA, is a second year Rabbinical Student at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Prior to enrolling at JTS, she spent three years working at the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston as Program Coordinator for the Greater Boston Jewish Coalition for Literacy, training and connecting nearly 400 tutors each year to public school students in the Boston area. A graduate of Brandeis University, she double-majored in Women & Gender Studies and Economics, and was a leader in the Hillel community. She then studied at the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem and, upon her return to the Boston area, served as a fellow with JOIN For Justice, a Jewish organizing fellowship. She spends much of her time helping to run independent minyanim, hiking, and cooking local vegetarian food.
