EXPERIENCE

Joanna has over 15 years of facilitation and training experience, with a particular focus in Adaptive Leadership, community organizing, LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) education and training, anti-sexism and anti-violence education, white anti-racism education and organizing, storytelling, and organizational change.

For 7 years, she worked with Keshet toward the full inclusion & equality of LGBTQ people in Jewish life, including guiding Jewish institutions large and small through organizational change processes. Joanna worked and volunteered as a partner abuse and sexual violence prevention educator with The Network/La Red and BWR/YWCA of Central Massachusetts for 6 years.

Joanna has a dual Bachelors degree in Gender Studies and Middle East Studies from Antioch College. 

Certifications & Training

Executive Certificate in Facilitation, Georgetown University Institute for Transformational Leadership, 2017

Executive Certificate in The Art & Practice of Leadership Development (Adaptive Leadership), Harvard Kennedy School, 2017

Fundamentals of Facilitation for Racial Justice Work, Interaction Institute for Social Justice, 2017

Schusterman Fellowship, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, 2016

Managing to Change the World, The Management Center, 2014

Supervising Organizers, The Midwest Academy, 2013

Partner Abuse Community Educator, The Network/La Red, 2011

Community Organizing Fellowship, JOIN for Justice, 2010

Selected Writing

Four Questions about LGBTQ Liberation, JewishBoston.com, March 2017

Secular is Not the New Queer, Op-Ed, E-Jewish Philanthropy, April 2016

Keep Loving, Keep Fighting: Reflections after Thanksgiving, Jewish Women's Archive, November 2014

Transgender 101, Keshet, November 2014

I Reach for Words, Jewish Women's Archive, April 2013

Five Things That Make Us Go "Ummm", Keshet, August 2012

Past Clients Include:

About Joanna

Joanna has been living, working, and learning at the intersections of social justice, community organizing, spirituality, and transformative education for over a decade. Originally from San Diego, California, Joanna has made her personal and professional home in the Pacific Northwest, Ohio, Israel/Palestine, Western Europe, and, since 2008, Boston, MA. Joanna is a queer white Jewish femme of mixed Sephardi/Ashkenazi heritage, from an interfaith (Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and atheist) family.