Jess Gold is an educator and organizer from Pittsburgh, PA. Gold serves on the advisory board of Ratzon: Center for Healing and Resistance and organizes with Jews Organizing for Liberation and Transformation (JOLT), a loosely affiliated group of liberation-minded Pittsburgh Jews. She is the Program Manager for a local nonprofit organization, and when she’s not working, you can find her baking challah and attempting to perfect her seitan brisket recipe.
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