Social Justice Fellowship Alumni
Rena Oppenheimer
Berkeley, CA, USA
Therapist
Fellowship Year: 2014-2015
Placement: Itach-Ma'aki: Women Lawyers for Social Justice and the Tel Aviv Rape Crisis Center
Interests:
Rena “Ro” Oppenheimer (she/they) is a white Ashkenazi genderqueer somatic therapist, visual artist, and dancer. She is lucky to spend her days lovingly witnessing and reflecting back the creative transformational power of millennials and young people. They are a grandchild of Holocaust survivors, Jewish leaders, and community workers. Ro speaks Hebrew and Arabic and is in the beginning of her Yiddish journey.
In My Own Words: My time on the Social Justice Fellowship was a hands-on immersion in solidarity work with Palestinians. It also taught me about how essential joy and community are to resistance work.