As a professional, I strive to balance values alignment with effective outcomes. I am drawn to roles that allow me to engage in meaningful work while taking a hands-on approach to drive impactful change. I thrive in collaborative team environments, working toward shared goals that require creativity and problem-solving. As a cross-disciplinary systems thinker, I intentionally seek opportunities across different fields and roles to deepen my understanding of the challenges and possibilities for meaningful change. This diverse experience enables me to approach problems with fresh perspectives and apply insights from one field to another effectively.

Specialty Areas

  • LGBTQIA+ inclusion

    • Internal consultant for non-profit on LGBTQIA+ inclusion

    • Served on two DEIB Boards

    • Community member consultant for all gender cabins

  • Indigenous solidarity, land-use & ecology

    • Internal consultant as non-profit staff member on Indigenous solidarity

    • Alumni consultant for summer camp

    • Curriculum writer, staff trainer & workshop facilitator

    • Participant in LandPaths Queer Forestry and Fire Ecology

  • Organizational structure and democratic decision making

    • Trained multiple organizations on consensus decision making

    • Invited as guest strategist and advisor for movement building

    • Co-faciliated organizational re-structuring

Recommendations

  • Leora brings together a set of extraordinary talents, skills, experience and intellectual, emotional and spiritual gifts that enable her to offer deep, insightful and authentic attention to whatever she sets her mind and heart to. Leora's writing is clear, curious, loving and guides us with strength and gentleness into new and transformative perspectives. Leora's leadership is responsible, accountable, humorous and visionary. I'm grateful to be part of Leora's circle, to get to learn together and build community together.

    Rabbi Dev Noily

    Senior Rabbi at Kehilla Community Synagogue

  • I’m enthusiastic to recommend Leo – who is a multi-talented organizer, writer, project and event manager, and relationship-builder; I was honored to mentor Leo for nearly a year through the Taproot program. They combine deep commitment with creativity and care, and their social justice focus is reflective and also joyfully curious! Leo’s vision is both deep and wide; they bring a keen intelligence and authentic leadership to every project or event. Their collaboration brings an always-fresh perspective, and they can be counted on to follow through with whatever they take on, with imagination, skill and great heart.

    Penny Rosenwasser

     Fundraiser, Activist, Author

  • Leora is a skilled and inspiring social justice facilitator and educator. I worked with Leora on a project wherein she served as an organizational consultant to guide the creation and implementation of complex solidarity outcomes. Leora is patient, committed, curious, smart and open. They bring an informed perspective on individual and organizational change. Leora is organized and has excellent project follow through, including comprehensive documentation. They have strong awareness of group dynamics, and help others think more deeply through their thoughtful leadership - a wise, visionary human.

    Myla Marks

    Executive Director of Slide Ranch, previously Senior Director at Camp Tawonga

  • Leora and I have worked together as community organizers for six years. Her contributions have been an integral part of our group's positive growth and impact. Leora brings a rare combination of skills and experiences to her work, whether that's project management, event management, strategic planning or culture building. What I notice most is that she can move in many different ways, discerning what's needed at a given moment. She is adept at both crafting and holding vision and implementing a plan; offering her own information and ideas and deeply listening; holding intellectual analysis and attuning to emotions; attending to both the individual and the collective; creating and implementing structure, and inviting change and fluidity. She's also an incredible writer. Whatever project or organization she is part of, Leora roots into purpose and humanity and then pulls from her array of talents. She's pretty extraordinary.

    Laura Callen

    Director of Adoption Museum Project & Jews on Ohlone Land Organizer

  • Leora is a brilliant educator and facilitator. She holds space with grounded and open energy that allows participants to fully engage with curiosity and vulnerability. She can skillfully guide a conversation, feeding off the input of her participants while making sure to hit critical teaching points. Particularly in the realm of facilitating and educating about social justice topics, Leora brings the skills necessary to support people with compassion to move the needle on their understanding, leaving participants in her workshops unsettled in a positive way and inspired to make change!

    Kiyomi Gelber

    Senior Director at Camp Tawonga

  • Leora is an incredibly thoughtful human and community builder. As a writer, they bridge the academic with the poetic, the analytical with the futurist; this combination inspires compassionate action and the inclusion of many voices. Leora’s organizational and communication skills are stellar. In a community of practice we co-lead that examines Jews’ relationships with land, diaspora, and settler colonialism, Leora has held a firm anchor in logistics and communications. Not only does Leora never miss a detail, they communicate with compassion and warmth, which rallies those around them. It is a pleasure and honor to work alongside Leora, to learn with and from her, and to feel my own sense of engaged community expanding because of her offerings.

    Cara Michelle Silverberg

    Somatic Education and Embodied Leadership