During the Hebrew month of Elul, I committed to writing a poem a day as a reflective and generative practice. I had not been writing as much as I would have liked, and this personal challenge allowed me to generate new material as well as reflect in the spiritual lead-up to the High Holidays (2022). I sent out the poems on Substack in order to keep myself accountable. While I did not write a poem for every day, I found the practice meaningful and was encouraged by the feedback my subscribers gave.

Along with Hart Levine, the spiritual leader of the Beis Community, I co-created a curriculum about connection to God in the time of social distancing as a means to facilitate connection during the weeks leading up to the High Holidays in 2020. Community members participated in the Initiative by listening to weekly podcasts we recorded and reflecting with chavruta partners or chabura groups. The materials were also posted on a blog so that anybody could follow along on their own. 40 people signed up, with a total of 6 chavruta pairs and 3 chabura groups (2 virtual, and 1 in person).

Monologues from the Makom is a collection of first-person prose and poetry designed to break the observant Jewish community's taboo against open discussion of female sexuality. It is also the product of over two years of work on the part of over thirty women: the authors who submitted their work and the editors who compiled it. As an editor, I solicited and edited submissions; as social media manager, I created Instagram and Facebook campaigns to advertise the book pre-publication.

After participating in a training with Moishe House, I received a grant to plan and facilitate a peer-led retreat. With the help of an appointed mentor, I created the curriculum for a weekend retreat about writing and the art of teshuvah. In August 2019, ~10 women-identified people from various religious backgrounds gathered in Cold Spring, NY to spend Shabbat together and participate in writing workshops led by writer Caroline Rothstein.

A chapbook is a shorter collection of poetry, usually between 20 and 30 pages. My two chapbooks, Daughter of the Tribe and all (we) had to do was stay, were projects for a Jewish gender studies internship and an honors Creative Writing project, respectively. As each chapbook was produced in different contexts, they had a different writing and editing process.