Suzanne Snider is a research-based artist and educator whose work is deeply influenced by oral history theory and practice. For more than 20 years, she has worked in the field of oral history as an interviewer, educator, consultant and in the context of archives design. In 2012, Snider founded Oral History Summer School in Hudson, New York to explore nontraditional applications for (and experimental outcomes of) life history and collaborative narrative practices.

Jordana Rosenfeld is a news reporter for Pittsburgh City Paper and a freelance researcher and editor focusing on mass incarceration and the punishment bureaucracy. You can find her work at jordanarosenfeld.com.

Esther Mack (she/her) is a professional stenographer, providing captioning and transcription for the Jewish community. Esther is a teaching fellow at SVARA: A traditionally radical yeshiva, and she is a leader in the Triangle Minyan, a lay-led minyan in Durham, NC. She loves studying Talmud, sharing meals with friends, and spending time with her rescue dog Molly.

Eleonora Anedda is an oral historian from Sardegna, Italy. She holds an M.A. in Oral History from Columbia University and came to the field from a Gender Studies background. She cares about documenting and preserving untold stories of individuals, families, and communities.

Noah Schoen is a community organizer and oral historian. He is the Community Outreach Associate at the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, where he works to strengthen the Center’s approach to dismantling antisemitism and the injustices of today.

Aliza Becker is the Project Director of Meanings of October 27th. She worked for two decades as an educator and advocate for immigrant and refugee rights and wrote several books on naturalization education, including a best-selling textbook. In 2002 she became the founding director of Brit Tzedek v’Shalom, a Jewish Middle East peace organization.