Originally from Connecticut, Juliana is a director, actor and producer with a passion for building and supporting community. Her search for every-day work of community-led activism got her excited about Repair the World. She was then better acquainted with the Crown Heights Workshop last year while producing and directing a play. She holds a B.F.A from University of Connecticut. Juli also loves swimming, traveling and crafting.

Kate comes to Repair the World a community social worker, spanning experience in education, counseling, community organizing, and Jewish social justice efforts. Most recently, Kate served as the Community School Director at Brooklyn Landmark Elementary advocating for educational equity and coordinating community resources. A licensed social worker, Kate earned her MSW from NYU and BASW from Rutgers University.

Liza Freed is a Program Manager for Repair the World Harlem. She is particularly passionate about mentoring, coaching, and investing in young leaders, and loves working with young people to create programming that uses Judaism as a lens to examine injustice and inequity.

Prior to becoming the Executive Director of Repair the World NYC, Rachel Figurasmith worked in education and non-profit spaces for her entire career. Previously serving as Repair’s Senior Educator, Rachel spearheaded our family volunteering engagement initiatives for several years. A born-and-bred New Yorker, Rachel is passionate about increasing access to quality education for all young people.

Azania majored in Women, Gender, and Sexualities Studies and Anthropology at American University. Azania interned at Becky’s Fund, a non-profit dedicated to ending domestic violence based in Washington, DC and New Voices for Reproductive Justice, a Black women and girls focused reproductive justice non-profit in Pittsburgh. Azania is excited to learn more sustainable and equitable organizing strategies in order to do her part in improvin

Haley is a recent graduate of the University of Southern California where she studied International Relations and Nonprofits, Philanthropy and Volunteerism. During college, Haley taught a weekly class in local high schools near campus through the Teaching International Relations Program. She helped students to critically engage with a variety of topics ranging from climate change and its impacts on food security to human rights to foreign poli

Ilana is a recent graduate of Oberlin College, where she studied psychology and was a Site Leader and Tutor for AmericaCounts, a federally funded program designed to bring resources to schools and education programs to ensure all students are achieving at grade level in reading and math. Ilana is excited to spend a year with Harlem Repair and wants to dedicate her year of service to learning about the possibility of dedicating her life to soci

Jeremy graduated from the University of Vermont, where he majored in Environmental Studies and founded Green Mountain Manna, a Jewish outdoors club. He also wrote his senior thesis on founding Green Mountain Manna on campus. Jeremy is passionate about food justice because after all, people cannot survive or function without access to food.