Social Justice Fellowship Alumni
Leah Platkin
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Clinical Social Worker
Fellowship Year: 2014-2015
Placement: Arous El Bahar, Ossim Shalom, Jaffa Institute
Interests: human rights, shared society, social justice
A clinical social worker who has worked with those who are most marginalized. My year doing the NIF fellowship started with doing trauma treatment with women and youth in Jaffa and children and adult asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan living in South Tel Aviv. I stayed in Israel for 5 more years and continued working with asyum seekers and met my husband a Palestinian citizen of Israel.
In My Own Words: I am a clinical social worker and spent my fellowship year doing treatment with Palestinian youth and women in Jaffa, asylum seekers in South Tel Aviv, and advocating for shared society and those who are most marginalized among a group of Israeli and Palestinian social workers.