Projects

2025 - I received IRB approval to begin qualitative research, surveying and interviewing Jewish women to explore the impact of a bicultural upbringing on the experience of forming sexual self-schema. Interviews are being conducted over summer 2025, utilizing Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Committee members are Dr. Shannon Lane, Dr. Rosara Torrisi, and Dr. Christine Vyshedsky. Dr. David Ribner is serving in a mentor role.

2022-2023 - I surveyed the field of Jewish educators on college campuses to understand how prepared they felt to work with engaged couples where one or both partners had experienced trauma. I developed a 4-part curriculum to ground them in trauma-informed care, including when to refer out and how trauma histories may intersect with halachic and practical concerns when preparing people for marriage.

August 2021 - I developed a program to educate our clients, clinicians, and community leaders about family building options for queer people in the Orthodox world. Panelists addressed financial concerns, practical considerations, legal implications, and relevant Jewish law to over 100 attendees. The recorded panel is now available as a professional resource on the JQY (Jewish Queer Youth) website.

April 2021 -The final speaker in the group addressing Experiences of Trauma & Trauma-Informed Care, this is a case presentation of a Modern Orthodox Jewish client struggling with her sexual self-schema. Presented at the 2021 Widener University Graduate Student Research Symposium Presenter, Center for Human Sexuality Studies.

March 2021 - Instagram Live interview with cartoonist Chari Pere about our 2019 comic and experiences creating, writing, and dealing with loss and grief. Interview conducted by Aimee Friedman Baron of I Was Supposed To Have A Baby, a non-profit focused on Jewish fertility support.

March 2019 - Third in Chari Pere's Cartoonmentary series, this is based on a series I wrote for GeekMom. Featured on GrokNation, Mayim Bialik's website, for World Down Syndrome Day 2019.

In collaboration with Chari Pere.

December 2018 - A policy brief written for school arguing for the inclusion of pregnancy as a Qualifying Life Event (QLE) for a Special Enrollment Period in the healthcare marketplace.

August 2018 - A video presentation on an older adult through the lens of Erikson's developmental stages. Focus on stage 4, Industry vs. Inferiority, the presentation applies the stages historically to the life of a Holocaust survivor

October 2015 - 'A Gender Flipping Cartoon with Issues'. Analysis and parental walk-through of Australian-Canadian cartoon She-Zow.