Liana Galper is a junior at Gann Academy in Waltham, MA, where they are the Theater Club treasurer, Improv captain, GSA (Gender and Sexuality Alliance) co-leader, and Student Council clubs' officer. This past summer, Liana attended the Rhode Island School of Design Pre-College program, majoring in painting. Liana is passionate about exploring the intersectionality of Judaism and queerness and how to represent that experience through art. 

Meital Fried is a senior at the NYC Lab School living in Brooklyn. She loves theater, writing, the New York Mets (that’s love-hate, really), her Jewish community, and new experiences. A serial club leader, Meital needs to learn to chill out — last time she counted, she was co-president of the student newspaper, drama club, Jewish Student Union, and one more she always forgets. Her work has been published in Stone Soup Magazine and the collection Everything Momentarily and won an honorable mention in the Ned Vizzini Teen Writing Contest. 

Bee Foster is a junior at Gann Academy. Their interests include economics, fashion, and writing. They participate in DECA and compete in marketing apparel to better understand economics and its impacts on clothing. Bee is a costume designer for their theater department, where they are also the representative for the techies. Alongside being a voice for the stage crew, they represent their classmates on student council. This past summer, Bee spent three weeks in Paris studying fashion and two weeks learning microeconomics. On weekends they work at Temple Emanuel’s religious school. Bee has a fondness for cats, especially Frank and Jelly. 

Liza Feinstein is a senior at Benjamin Franklin High School. She has been involved in her New Orleans community through working at Grow Dat, a nonprofit youth farm; Groundworks NOLA, which works with water control; and LOOP, a summer camp that introduces kids to the outdoors. At school, she is deeply involved with the GSA and has visited the state capital in support of queer and trans rights. She can also be found reading in coffee shops, having picnics with friends, and costuming. 

Charli Duchalski is a junior at Meadowvale Secondary School just outside of Toronto, Canada. An avid writer for as long as anyone can remember, Charli published their first novel, My Brother Yak, at age 12. In 2023, they started a movie review blog, Chronicle Blitz, where they write under the pseudonym Ridley Donowitz. They are also a third-degree brown belt in karate, a b’nai mitzvah tutor at Solel Congregation’s beit sefer, and an active participant in their school’s QSA group (the LGBTQ+ club). In their free time, they write screenplays and watch movies while furiously taking notes about filmmaking styles. 

Dany Dorsey is currently a junior at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. She participates in the speech and debate team, the book club, and the school newspaper. In the past, she has contributed to the Signature in the Schools program at Signature Theatre. Additionally, she is a madricha at her synagogue. She loves to read all genres of books and is interested in the fashion industry. 

Lea Davis is a senior at Cary Academy in Cary, North Carolina. She is president of her school’s Students for Gender Equity and a proud member of the Jewish Affinity Group. Last year, she completed an independent study on the legacy of Mary Queen of Scots. This year, she plans to study Jewish women’s use of both legal and secular law throughout history. She spends her time outside of school reading, writing, volunteering at her local Hebrew school, and participating in her school’s theatre production. She enjoys spending time with her friends, studying forgotten women in history, and listening to Broadway musicals. 

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.

Maya Braiterman is a sophomore at the Abraham Joshua Heschel School in New York City. Maya is an active member of her school's Debate and Model UN teams, Shakespeare Club, and Theater Program. Outside school, Maya has studied voice for eight years at the Bloomingdale School of Music and regularly performs with the school's Broadway Ensemble. Maya is also actively involved with the youth movement Habonim Dror, feeling deeply connected to its ideals of left-wing Zionism and social activism and spending summers at Camp Moshava. In her free time, Maya enjoys reading, drawing, and listening to her favorite bands.