Welcome Bara Levitt, New Social Justice Intern!

One aspect of the Faith House Vision is "Serving Together: In synergy with other faith-based and interfaith organizations, Faith House provides opportunities to spread awareness and work together to fight poverty, increase environmental justice and sustainability, and promote peacemaking in New York City and around the world."

This summer, we put out a job description for an intern for the 2009-2010 academic year. The primary role of the intern will be to coordinate monthly social justice "Serving Together" opportunities for Faith House. Our intern will also help with administrative tasks, attend staff meetings and participate in Faith House events, including Living Rooms. 

We are very pleased to announce that this process of search brought Bara Levitt into our staff team! Below is her photo and bio and we hope you will all get a chance to meet her soon. 

BARA LEVITT, SOCIAL JUSTICE INTERN

Bara Slafkes Levitt is a Senior at List College, the Joint Program between Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary, where she is majoring in Sociology and Jewish Women’s Studies. Bara is looking forward to coordinating Social Justice opportunities with the Faith House community this academic year.

Last Spring Bara had a fellowship with the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, where she learned a great deal about issues of hunger in New York City and worked to engage various faith based groups in anti-hunger activism.  Bara also volunteered last school year with Alternative Spring Break, working on the ground in the Eighth Ward in New Orleans, and helped coordinate the annual Take Back the Night “Sexual Violence Awarness March” around the Columbia University area.

In addition to learning about Judaism at the Seminary, Bara has long been engaged in teaching about Judaism both formally and informally to Jewish youth in Hebrew School and Jewish Camp settings.  Before starting List College, Bara went on Young Judaea Year Course, a gap year program of studying and volunteering in Israel, where she volunteered on a Kibbutz (cooperative farming community), as well as in schools teaching English.  Back in America, Bara made weekly visits to a Holocaust survivor through a Hillel program.     

The Faith House Social Justice Internship brings together Bara’s significant experience planning and organizing social justice volunteering opportunities with her belief in the incredible value of coming together to learn and work with those of different faiths, just as exemplified by Faith House.