Talia Bodner is a student from the Bay Area who is studying in the Joint Program between Columbia University and The Jewish Theological Seminary. She is focusing in Modern Jewish Studies at JTS and Political Science at Columbia. In the spring of 2023, Talia returned from a gap year on Young Judaea Year Course in Israel where she interned in the Knesset and volunteered teaching English to Israeli-Arab students in Tel Aviv. In her free time, Talia enjoys writing and has performed spoken word poems at the November 14th, 2023 March for Israel at the National Mall in DC and at the World Zionist Organization’s 2023 Conference on Informal Education and Leadership in Jerusalem.