Our Experts

Meet our exceptional army of influencers, artists, writers, researchers, and educators. Bring us to your community to experience inspiring, cutting-edge, and unique perspectives on Jewish identity. We offer speaking, teaching, press appearances, writing, and consulting.

Associates & Digital Producers

Yseult Polfliet Mukantabana, Research Fellow

Yseult Polfliet Mukantabana is Rwandan, Jewish and a queer woman. She is an author, creative director and social and art advocate. Mukantabana is the Co-founder of Kinswomen, sits on the Board Committee of POWarts, an organization meant to uplift professional womxn in the art industry, Ted Speaker and designer/ co-founder of YOAH, a gender-free children’s’ brand created with her brother Noah Polfliet. Her unique approaches to matters of race issues are global, located mainly in New York, she speaks four languages, lives and travels between Kigali, Paris and Tel Aviv.

Mukantabana has done consulting in anti-racism for small and large groups, her clients have ranged from corporate America, high profile art institutions and prestigious American universities such as Columbia and Yale. She has a distinct way of intersecting spaces and people. Her work aims at making the conversation possible and practical. She makes it available for people to build a realistic plan of action to be impactful and empowered in their advocacy.

Lucia da Silva, Teen Fellow

Lucia is an eight grade student from Washington who enjoys soccer and basketball. Following her Bat Mitzvah at the Kotel in Jerusalem she decided to devote her time to work for equality and inclusivity in the Jewish community.

Sabrina Miller, Digital Producer

Sabrina is a freelance journalist and campaigner based in Britain. She specialises in British politics, student issues and antiSemitism, and has written for The Telegraph, Mail +, and The Independent and has appeared on GBNews and the BBC. She holds a degree in English Literatrue after graduating from the University of Bristol.

Shoshanna Keats-Jaskoll, Associate

Raised in New Jersey, Shoshanna lives in Israel. She takes on child sex abuse, women in Judaism, Israel-Arab conflict, and general human stupidity. She is a founding member of Chochmat Nashim, a organization dedicated to positive change in the Jewish community. Shoshanna writes for Times of Israel, Jerusalem Post, Jewish Chronicle, JTA and more.

Tova Ricardo, Digital Producer

The 2015 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate, Tova is a Black Orthodox Jewish writer and a recent graduate of Columbia University. She's invested in Torah, Israel advocacy, and uplifting American Jewish communities of color. Her writing has been featured in Hillel International, Jewish Journal, Jews of Color Initiative, Jewish Federations of North America, and UJA-Federation of NY.

Noah Shufutinsky (Westside Gravy,) Digital Producer

A hip hop recording artist and producer who shares stories pertaining to collective narratives of Black and Jewish communities. Through unapologetic songs like Yahud (2021) and 40 Acres (2021), Westside represents his roots and communicates the history of his people. He’s performed across the globe: in Tel Aviv, London, San Diego + the AIPAC conference main stage.

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