Rikki Baker Keusch is a community organizer based in Queens, New York where they were raised. With over a decade of experience organizing on issues ranging from public health to Palestinian rights, they are most motivated by issues of disability justice, queer justice, tenants’ rights, and workers’ rights.
Rikki Baker Keusch
By Rikki Baker Keusch
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Opinion A subway mask ban won’t fight antisemitism, but it will punish immunocompromised Jews like me
New York governor Kathy Hochul has raised the possibility of reinstating a mask ban in the subway after masked pro-Palestinian demonstrators threatened Jews
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Community What Would Goebbels Really Think Of Julius Ceasar?
You’d think that having grown up in New York, I wouldn’t feel my heart swell with pride every time I look around and see multiple kipah-covered heads. And yet, as I waited in line to enter the Delecorte Theater in Central Park, I couldn’t help but smile at the obvious number of Jewish audience members….
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