Project Team
The curriculum was created by PARCEO together with many educators, scholars, and activists.
PARCEO is an education, resource, and research center rooted in principles of Participatory Action Research (PAR) and popular education. PARCEO works with a range of organizations and institutions seeking to strengthen and deepen educational, organizing, research, and cultural work for justice.
Our commitment to community education
Community education is integral to our work for justice. Community activists, educators, and organizers have developed many different rich curricula and resources. These curricula and resources are created to deepen and strengthen our knowledge, analysis, and actions challenging different forms of injustice that are both unique and inter-connected. Our hope is that this project on challenging antisemitism will contribute to the broader effort of envisioning how we can collectively achieve justice and true dignity for all peoples. Increasingly and in new, creative, bold ways, social movements are connecting with one another to deepen and strengthen collective work for justice.
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Project coordinators and PARCEO’s co-directors: Nina Mehta and Donna Nevel
Project Advisors: Morgan Bassichis, Ellen Brotsky, Sheryl Nestel, Mark Tseng-Putterman, Rabbi Brant Rosen, Abby Saul, Rebecca Vilkomerson, Lesley Williams
Community Reviewers: Ujju Aggarwal, Aisha al-Adawiya, Jamil Dakwar, Nyle Fort, Andrew Kadi, Robin D.G. Kelley, Lara Kiswani, Darakshan Raja, Samia Shoman.
Website design: Pedro Corrales
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Acknowledgments: In addition to the enormous role of the community advisors and community reviewers (listed above) in helping to shape and guide the curriculum, we also give special thanks and appreciation to the following people for sharing their great wisdom and knowledge and offering feedback to us–through conversations, interviews, and email correspondence: Antony Lerman, Brian Klug, Barry Trachtenberg, Lila Corwin Berman. An additional thanks to the following people who contributed in different ways–through interviews we conducted with them, who reviewed the curriculum and/or participated in webinars, who attended pilots of the sessions and offered us feedback, through sharing photographs and visuals, and/or who offered other support to enable us to complete the curriculum: Benjamin Balthazar, Sophia Sobko, Atalia Omer, Sydney Nestel, Jake Ratner, Dylan Saba, Sarah Sills, Shaul Magid, Jalal (Jay) Shehadeh, Katherine Giannamore, Sara Kershnar, Deborah Sagner, Nassim Zerriffi, Alan Levine, Zoha Khalili, Stefanie Fox, Jane Hirschmann, Matthew Lindenbaum, Beth Miller, Stefanie Fox, Ben Korman, Judith Butler, Carlos Borrero, Ben Lorber, Kathleen Peratis, Elsa Auerbach, Susan Nakely, Natalia Ortiz, and others. And with appreciation to all those we haven’t mentioned who joined us to view different versions of the curriculum in its process of development. Of course PARCEO is responsible for the content of the curriculum.​
Home page: The photos on the homepage include participants in PARCEO’s roundtable conversations and interviews created for the curriculum.
Curriculum Facilitators
Nina Mehta is a community educator and co-director of PARCEO from New York City. She has taught in public schools in NYC and Durham, NC, at NYU and Boricua College, and has been part of many alternative and participatory education projects. She works with a wide range of groups on collaborative research, rethinking ethnography, cultural, and media projects and facilitates workshops and events. She supports groups as they work through their internal processes and facilitates workshops and large-scale events to elevate participatory, creative, and horizontal engagement. She comes from families that are first generation Bombay Jain immigrants, and longtime New York City Jewish educators and social justice advocates.
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Donna Nevel, a community psychologist and educator, is co-director of PARCEO. She taught Participatory Action Research (PAR) for many years at NYU Steinhardt. She has worked with a range of social justice initiatives, locally, nationally, and globally, and has taught and offered facilitation in different educational settings.
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Lesley Williams is a librarian, writing instructor, discussion facilitator and racial equity advocate based in Evanston Illinois. As a public librarian she initiated and co-lead community discussions on dismantling racism; and she has consulted with library systems and schools on creating racially diverse and inclusive collections, staff and services. She has led and trained facilitators for local racial justice and environmental justice book discussion and reviews African American and Palestinian literature for Booklist magazine. She has presented at numerous library conferences, school and community equity trainings; at the American Studies Association, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and on Worldview. Her writing has appeared in Truthout, Mondoweiss and AWBC Magazine.
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and others coming soon!
Next steps
Our facilitators can offer workshops or classes in your schools, institutions, and communities. Please reach out to us at antisemitismcurriculum@gmail.com for more information.