Dayenu’s JOC Caucus was born out of a need for dedicated space for Jews of Color within the climate movement.
It is a community of Jews of Color who are working to address the immediate and long-term harm inflicted by the climate crisis, supporting our individual resilience, cultivating intentional and sacred community and developing ourselves as leaders and organizers to build our collective power. The JOC Caucus is open to people of color who are Jewish, including Sephardi and Mizrachi Jews. Please know that we appreciate allyship, and this space is only for people of color.
Fill out this form to join the Caucus and receive updates on other opportunities to get involved in Dayenu.
Maetal Gerson (she/her) is an Organizing and Leadership Development Fellow at Dayenu and a second year rabbinical student at The Jewish Theological Seminary. She graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in English and Music in 2021 and completed the Chicago Avodah Service Corps the following year working as a community organizer at the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs. She deeply believes in the capacity that community organizing has to create resilient and strong communities that are capable of responding to injustices by demanding and enacting systemic change. She is excited to apply her organizing knowledge and skills to her new role as a Dayenu Clergy fellow and continue to deepen her work the Jewish communities.
Ginna Green is a strategist, writer, movement-builder, consultant, and Partner and Chief Strategy Officer at Uprise. She is also the co-host of A Bintel Brief: The Jewish Advice Podcast from The Forward. At Uprise, Ginna leads the practice on diversity + equity + inclusion and philanthropic advising within the Jewish community, and is a principal strategist for its progressive movement communications clients. Previously, she worked as Chief Strategy Officer at Bend the Arc: Jewish Action where she managed the communications, advocacy, electoral, rapid response and racial equity teams from 2018-2020. Prior to Bend the Arc, Ginna was Managing Director of the Democracy Program at ReThink Media, and before that spent several years on staff at the Center for Responsible Lending. She is a frequent speaker and writer on democracy, race, racism in the Jewish community, Jewish community diversity, and leadership, and has been published in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, and Salon, and heard on NPR, KCRW, KQED, and CNN. Ginna sits on the boards of Bend the Arc, where she is co-chair; Women’s March Win PAC, where she is president; the Jews of Color Initiative, Political Research Associates; the Jewish Social Justice Roundtable; and Jewish Story Partners. An alum of the Jeremiah Fellowship and the Selah Leadership Program, a Schusterman Senior Fellow, and a Jewish Orthodox Feminist Aliiance 2020 Notable Woman, Ginna is a native southerner and the mother of four amazing kids.
November 26, 2024
