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About Me

Born in Michigan in 1984, spent most my life in the south of Israel. lived also in the US, Cambodia and in the past 3 years in Jerusalem. Traveled in SE Asia, Australia, India. BA in Community Social Work from Hebrew U in Jerusalem. For the past 2 years have been a coordinator for an organic community garden in the city. Spent the past year in field training in Shatil-Initiative for Social Change, Jerusalem.

Location:
Israel, Jerusalem, Israel
Current organization:
Jerusalem Community Gardens
Current role:
City Coordinator of community work in community gardens
Gender:
Female
Areas of expertise:
Community Activism, community organizing
I am:
Activist, Brainstormer, Change Agent, Concerned citizen, Explorer, Global soul, Idea generator, Student, World traveler
Languages:
Hebrew, English
Universities:
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
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I'm passionate about

life. peace. creativity. words. love. mangoes. communities. people. reflections. environment. learning. community gardens. yoga. reading. music. art. translating. nature. communication. education.

An idea worth spreading

Give BACK- Backpackers Active for Communities and Kids. While traveling I had the privilege of being involved in the founding and facilitating of Kids at the Lake Creations in PP, Cambodia. That experience made me think about promoting the idea of socially- conscience traveling. Give BACK (when founded) will harness the resource of packpakers' time and energy, together with the needs, strengths and initiatives of local communities, to create a work-force for change. The project will have branches in all major backpacker hubs and will provide volunteering opportunities for travelers- from one day to 3 month long projects. Volunteers will earn a meaningful experience & deeper understanding of the consequences and effect of their passing by as travelers, while local communities will receive man-power build schools, trees replanted, beaches cleaned etc. locals will be the ones create the agenda for change and take part in it, therefor the achievements will be sustainable for the future.

Talk to me about

oh, so many things! I am a curious kid...

People don't know that I'm good at

untangling knots.

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    A comment on Talk: Roger Doiron: My subversive (garden) plot

    Dec 20 2011: Wonderful! so inspiring and moving.
    I am a community worker, the coordinator of 37 community gardens in the city of Jerusalem (and a TED translator, too!). Is there any way we can get TED to transcribe and allow to translate this talk so we can spread it around to the thousands of co-plotters in this part of the world?

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