Resident Coordinators
Margie Klein founded the Moishe/Kavod House in 2006, and is currently a student at Hebrew College Rabbinical School. Margie recently co-edited Righteous Indignation: A Jewish Call for Justice, and led the national Righteous Indignation campaign to organize religious communities to voice social justice issues as religious community priorities in the ‘08 election and beyond.
An NYC native, Margie attended Yale University, where she was a Jewish and activist leader on campus. At Yale, she and friends founded Jews in the Woods, a vibrant intercollegiate community of Jews from all backgrounds that continues to thrive. Since college, Margie has traveled the country doing environmental and political organizing and hosting large Shabbat dinners wherever she goes. From 2003-2005, Margie led Project Democracy, a national youth voting initiative that mobilized 97,000 college students to vote in the 2004 election. In 2005, Margie won the Heschel Vision Award for her work organizing the Jewish community around social justice issues in DC. In her spare time, Margie is an avid cook and hip hop dancer.
Annie Fox hails from New York City, full of pride in her home town, the “Upper West Side”. A graduate of Wesleyan University, Annie also completed a fellowship at Adamah, a program focused on Jewish farming practices and values of sustainability. This was followed by a fellowship in community organizing and Jewish values at the Jewish Organizing Initiative. For the last two years she has been working as an Organizer with UNITE HERE!, the hotel and garment workers’ union. An avid dancer, eater and political wonk, Annie is passionate about building caring communities that act on their values.
Education: Bates College, 2008 B.A. in Psychology Employment: Community Residence Counselor at the Klarman Center for Eating Disorders at McLean Hospital
Michelle is a native (4th generation!) Bostonian who, by day, is a public health researcher, and by night, a community-loving, meditation-practicing, choir singing activist. She did her undergrad work at Brandeis, then spent a few years in DC, where she working for non-profits doing advocacy. After completing her graduate degree from U of Michigan, Michelle returned to Boston. She is passionate about working to reduce health disparities in Boston and nationally. Her time at Moishe House Boston is devoted to a range of social justice efforts (come to our website to see what they are!!!). Oh, and she loves ice cream (except for chocolate).