Lucy Waldorf

2021-2022 Rising Voices Fellow Lucy Waldorf

Lucy Waldorf is a junior at Newton North High School in Newton, Massachusetts. She spends most of her time organizing for climate justice as the co-president of her school’s climate advocacy club, as a member of MA Youth for Climate Justice’s Actions and Mutual Aid team, and as a Jewish Youth Climate Movement leadership board member. Lucy is a Diller Teen Fellow and an active member of her temple youth group as well as NFTY NorthEast. In her free time, Lucy can be found drawing, reading, writing poetry and prose, analyzing films, or scouring local shops for new additions to her record collection.

Blog Posts

Movie Still from "Ghost World", 2001: Image of Scarlett Johansson and Thora Birch

"Ghost World": Flawed Portrayals of Flawed Jewish Women

Lucy Waldorf

Ghost World is satirical, but is that fact enough to excuse the writing of the Jewish female characters?

Image of Emma Goldman Over Pomegranate Patterned Background

Anarchy, but Make It Feminist

Lucy Waldorf

As I familiarized myself with Emma Goldman's work, I realized that anarcho-feminist philosophy is so potent because both movements share the same goals.

Collage of Photos from Lucy Waldorf's Internship at Adamah

Growing My Identity and My Feminism Through Jewish Farming

Lucy Waldorf

The new movement of Jewish agricultural and regenerative farming has been at the center of my identity development.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Lucy Waldorf." (Viewed on November 21, 2024) <https://jwa.org/blog/author/waldorf-lucy>.