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Gaby Brown

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Gaby Brown is a junior at The Emery/Weiner School in Houston, Texas, where she is vice president of the Jewish Life Committee and co-president of the Moot Beit Din team. Outside of school, Gaby advocates for social justice through the Houston Holocaust Museum’s Engines of Change program and is involved in youth education as an assistant head of her synagogue’s Bnei Akiva youth group. With a passion for STEM, Gaby serves on the executive board of her school’s STEM club and conducts research with physicians on oncology clinical trial design. In her free time, Gaby enjoys reading, stage managing for theatre productions, binge watching Grey's Anatomy, and playing Mah Jongg.

Blog Posts

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Confronting Sexism’s Legacy in Science

Gaby Brown

Rosalind Elsie Franklin, an influential Jewish chemist, made groundbreaking contributions to the discovery of DNA’s structure. Nevertheless, she was largely unrecognized during her lifetime.

Topics: Science
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Braiding My Identity Through Havdalah

Gaby Brown

Just as the Havdalah service requires participation from each of the senses, I realized that my identities– a Jew, a daughter, a woman, a sister, and a feminist– would be integral as I entered Jewish adulthood.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Gaby Brown." (Viewed on December 24, 2024) <https://jwa.org/blog/author/brown-gaby>.