Pittsburgh
Repair the World Pittsburgh mobilizes young Jews to serve, builds capacity for nonprofits, and deepens connection across lines of difference.
Volunteers shovel and assist with winterizing the garden at Pittsburgh’s Sheridan Ave. Orchard.
Volunteers of all ages stand in front of an Ecotone Renewables shipping container containing an anaerobic digester that processes food waste.
A group of people are gathered around a table talking and participating in an activity at a gender equity event.
Local students complete an immersive week of service-learning focused on housing and food justice.
Upcoming Opportunities
Jun 5
The Hood Garden Work Day
Pittsburgh
The Hood Garden Work Day
Jun 5, 2023
Pittsburgh
Food Justice
Begins: 3:00 PM (ET)
Ends: 5:30 PM (ET)
10 spots left
Join us to support Homewood's Hood Garden with maintenance, improving the garden's accessibility, and more. We encourage participants to wear closed-toe shoes and clothing that can get dirty. Please e-mail pittsb[email protected] with any accessibility needs or questions.
Jun 6
Tuesday Work Night @ Sheridan Ave Orchard
Pittsburgh
Tuesday Work Night @ Sheridan Ave Orchard
Jun 6, 2023
Pittsburgh
Food Justice
Begins: 5:30 PM (ET)
Ends: 7:30 PM (ET)
Sheridan Avenue Orchard
310 Sheridan Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15206
19 spots left
Come ready to get your hands dirty! No gardening experience needed. We will provide gardening gloves and tools. Please bring close-toed shoes and a full water bottle. A variety of seasonal garden tasks are in need of your support.
Jun 13
Tuesday Work Night @ Sheridan Ave Orchard
Pittsburgh
Tuesday Work Night @ Sheridan Ave Orchard
Jun 13, 2023
Pittsburgh
Food Justice
Begins: 5:30 PM (ET)
Ends: 7:30 PM (ET)
Sheridan Avenue Orchard
310 Sheridan Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15206
19 spots left
Come ready to get your hands dirty! No gardening experience needed. We will provide gardening gloves and tools. Please bring close-toed shoes and a full water bottle. A variety of seasonal garden tasks are in need of your support.
Jun 20
Tuesday Work Night @ Sheridan Ave Orchard
Pittsburgh
Tuesday Work Night @ Sheridan Ave Orchard
Jun 20, 2023
Pittsburgh
Food Justice
Begins: 5:30 PM (ET)
Ends: 7:30 PM (ET)
Sheridan Avenue Orchard
310 Sheridan Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15206
19 spots left
Come ready to get your hands dirty! No gardening experience needed. We will provide gardening gloves and tools. Please bring close-toed shoes and a full water bottle. A variety of seasonal garden tasks are in need of your support.
Service & Learning Opportunities
Join us to serve to support grassroots initiatives and nonprofits, connect to Jewish values and learn about systemic issues and their local context. People of all backgrounds are welcome.
Serve With UsStrengthen your service by engaging in pressing issues through dynamic conversation guides grounded in Jewish values, such as repairing the world, tikkun olam, and justice, tzedek.
Deepen Your LearningFellows complete an immersive two-year full-time commitment to service and Jewish learning. Fellows learn essential skills, host community programming, and work directly with service partners addressing urgent local needs.
Learn MoreCorps members complete a part-time seasonal commitment to service and Jewish learning. Corps members join a local cohort for weekly learning and work directly to build capacity of grassroots initiatives.
Learn MorePeerCorps Middle and High Schoolers complete semesters of Jewish service-learning to engage with contextual issues in Pittsburgh. Teens of all backgrounds are welcome.
Get InvolvedYoung children and their families are welcome to participate together in Jewish service-learning that engages with contextual issues in Pittsburgh. Families of all backgrounds are welcome. Send us a detailed inquiry if you are interested in working with our team to organize a service-learning program for the families that you work with.
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Our Team
Sarah Cort
she/her
Regional Director, Midwest
Sarah Cort
she/her
Regional Director, Midwest
Sarah (she/her) is thrilled to join the team as the Midwest Regional Program Director. Prior to Repair The World, her passion for experiential education and relationship building led to a career as an overnight camp professional. She was the Summer Camps Director at McGaw YMCA Camp Echo for seven years. One highlight of Sarah’s tenure at Camp Echo is her work with families and staff to facilitate and implement the first all-gender cabins. While she spent her summers at camp, she led Taglit-Birthright Israel trips most winters, and was in the first cohort of Birthright Fellows. Prior to her role at Camp Echo, Sarah served as the Director of Education at KAM Isaiah Israel in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, where she ran the Religious and Nursery School programs. To better meet the needs of that community, she created Shoresh, a Shabbat-based experiential program, where children would attend Religious School on Friday afternoons, ending with family Shabbat services. Sarah has a degree in Early Childhood Education from Indiana University and volunteered for a year in Israel as an OTZMA Fellow, part of the Masa Israel Journey. Sarah is also on the board for Camp For All Kids, which facilitates racial diversity at overnight summer camps in the Midwest. Sarah is a St. Louis native and proud Cardinal’s baseball fan. She has been living in Chicago since 2012.
Emma Duhamel
they/them
Fellow, Pittsburgh
Emma Duhamel
they/them
Fellow, Pittsburgh
My name is Emma Duhamel, and I use they/them pronouns. I recently graduated from the University of Cincinnati where I double majored in Philosophy and Social Justice, with a certificate in LGBTQ Studies. For the past four years, I’ve been teaching religious school at different synagogues throughout Cincinnati, serving as both a Hillel student board member and intern, and interning with the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati. I also served on the board of the UC chapter of Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity, most recently as president. Repair the World allows me to continue to weave Judaism and social justice together. I plan to attend rabbinical school, and this fellowship will help me understand how I can incorporate social justice and direct service into my rabbinate.
Annie Dunn
she/her
Senior Program Associate, Pittsburgh
Annie Dunn
she/her
Senior Program Associate, Pittsburgh
A Michigander at heart, Annie relocated to Pittsburgh upon acceptance to the Repair the World Fellowship in 2015 where she collaborated with local partners to increase food access and support local urban agriculture. Having first-hand understanding of the transformative experience of a service year, she is excited to be overseeing the Service Corps program in Pittsburgh and helping to inspire a lifelong commitment to service amongst its participants. Since 2019, Annie has been managing the Sheridan Ave Orchard and Garden where she facilitates weekly service-learning opportunities and builds authentic relationships with the garden’s neighbors. All of the produce that she and her trusty volunteers grow is hand-delivered to East End Cooperative Ministry’s food pantry located right across the street. Annie holds a B.S. in Psychology from Aquinas College of Grand Rapids, MI. Outside of work, you can find her running the Three Rivers Heritage Trail, sharing a meal with friends, listening to true crime podcasts, and rearranging her 150 houseplants.
Jess Gold
she/her
Program Manager, Pittsburgh
Jess Gold
she/her
Program Manager, Pittsburgh
Jess (she/her) is a Pittsburgh-based educator and organizer with a background in social justice-oriented youth and community engagement. Her commitment to this work is deeply informed by Jewish values, and she is thrilled for the opportunity to put those values into action with Repair the World – Pittsburgh as the Program Manager. Most recently, Jess served as the Program Coordinator for the Center for Youth Media Advocacy and Social Justice Institutes at Carlow University, where she led initiatives educating for social justice and spearheaded a citywide Youth Voice Working Group. Prior to this, she was the Program Manager of Assemble, a community space for art and technology, where she previously worked as an educator. In 2013, she co-founded the Community Mixtape Project, a program that harnesses the power of media and technology-based arts education to amplify the individual and collective stories of Pittsburgh-area youth. She has over 10 years of experience with youth and community engagement work, and she has designed, coordinated, and facilitated programs with Remake Learning, Repair the World – Pittsburgh’s PeerCorps program, the Warhol Museum, the YMCA’s Y-Creator Space, the Women’s Center & Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh, and more. Jess currently serves as an Advisory Board Member for Pittsburgh’s Ratzon: Center for Healing and Resistance and organizes with a local mutual aid group.
Jules Mallis
they/them
Executive Director, Pittsburgh
Jules Mallis
they/them
Executive Director, Pittsburgh
Jules (they/them) is the City Director of social justice based service organization, Repair The World Pittsburgh. They have been organizing youth programs and creative endeavors for the past 12 years in Pittsburgh. Mallis is a multimedia artist, VJ, DJ and educator working with digital media, paint, installation, performance, sound and audience interaction. Their work focuses on building community, audio-visual experiences, speaking truth, and imagining new landscapes. Mallis has exhibited, performed and curated work across the United States including at The Andy Warhol Museum, The Carnegie Museum of Art, The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Coaxial Arts Foundation, PhilaMOCA, MOCA Cleveland, Baby’s All Right, The Silent Barn, Fringe Arts and more. Mallis has a joint degree in Studio Art with a concentration in Electronic Time-Based Media and in Cultural Anthropology from Carnegie Mellon University. Mallis was the Creative Director of art gallery and creative hub BOOM Concepts from 2014-2018, where they helped develop and carry out monthly artist exhibitions and programming. BOOM is dedicated to the advancement of POC and LGBTQIA creative entrepreneurs. BOOM Concepts serves as a space for field building, knowledge sharing, peer to peer mentorship, and storytelling. Mallis was recognized as Creator of the Year by the Pittsburgh Technology Council in 2016, alongside longtime collaborator DS Kinsel under their creative moniker “Magic Organs”. In 2018, Mallis was commissioned to paint a 1000+ feet mural on the ground of Strawberry Way in Downtown Pittsburgh. It features colorful imagery interlaced within an interactive game asking bold questions about equity and justice to the audience. In addition to their work as an artist, they have built up and led the Positive Spin youth cycling program over the last decade. Across two different organizations in Pittsburgh (Bike Pittsburgh and MGR Youth Empowerment) they worked tirelessly with Pittsburgh public schools and area charter schools to ensure students in grades 4-12 had enriching and engaging after school and summer activities related to bike safety. Engaging with all people about bike safety became central to their work with Bike Pittsburgh for many years, resulting in them organizing and hosting Bike Pittsburgh’s 6th annual women and non-binary biking forum. This forum sought to add elements of solidarity, community, and understanding amongst women and non-binary people through the lens of biking and transportation accessibility. These same themes of community, mentorship, solidarity, personal enrichment, and accessibility run through all endeavors Mallis is involved with. Whether at work or in the artist’s studio, their vision is constantly aimed towards how to better the future for themselves and other people, one day at a time.
Lexi Silvers
she/her
Midwest Development Director
Lexi Silvers
she/her
Midwest Development Director
Lexi Silvers (she/her) is a fundraising professional who is thrilled to serve as Repair the World’s Midwest Development Director. A graduate of Loyola University Chicago where she received her Master’s in Public Policy, Lexi’s background in political fundraising and campaigns sparked her passion for development through the art of storytelling. Prior to joining Repair, Lexi worked for Keshet as Manager of Individual Giving and for then-United States Senator Joe Donnelly as State Fundraising Director. Lexi lives in Chicago and in her spare time can be found listening to public radio, drinking more coffee than is medically recommended, organizing blood drives, and spending time with friends and family.
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