Adina Koch and Joanna Ware

Adina Koch is the Manager of Community Health Programs at Martha Eliot Health Center of Boston Children's Hospital. She also works as part of the Boston Connect to Protect Coalition to reduce health inequities among LGBTQ Youth of Color. She enjoys having Shabbat dinners with Queer Community and baking cakes shaped like unicorns. Joanna Ware: As Associate Director of National Programs, she directs the Keshet Parent & Family Connection and Keshet’s work with Jewish youth movements. Joanna’s academic background is in gender studies, Middle East studies, and politics, and she brings to Keshet professional experience in Jewish youth work and informal education, anti-violence and anti-sexism education and prevention, policy advocacy, and community organizing.