Berkley Center

Koach Baruch (KB) Frazier is a transformer, heartbeat of movements, healer, musician, and co-founder of the Tzedek Lab, a network of practitioners working at the intersection of dismantling racism, anti-Semitism, and white supremacy. A collaborative leader, rooted in tradition, curiosity, and love, KB strives to dismantle racism, actualize liberation, and transform lives both sonically and spiritually. KB lives with their wife, LaJuana, in Philadelphia where he is a student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.

Julia Watts Belser is an associate professor of Jewish studies in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Georgetown University and core faculty in Georgetown's Disability Studies Program, as well as a senior research fellow at the Berkley Center. Her research centers on gender, sexuality, and disability in classical Jewish texts, as well as queer feminist disability ethics. She is the author of Rabbinic Tales of Destruction: Gender, Sex, and Disability in the Ruins of Jerusalem (Oxford University Press, 2018). She has held faculty fellowships at Harvard Divinity School and the Katz Center for Advanced Jewish Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is an ordained rabbi, as well as a longtime activist for disability, LGBTQ, and gender justice. She co-authored an international Health Handbook for Women with Disabilities, developed in collaboration with disability activists from 42 countries and translated into 14 languages. She currently directs Disability and Climate Change: A Public Archive Project, an initiative which brings together stories from disability activists, artists, first responders, policymakers, and others to bear witness to the harms disabled people face amidst climate disruption and document the wisdom disabled people bring to navigating this crisis. She previously taught a class supported through the Berkley Center's Doyle Seminars project.

As a community organizer for Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ), Yehudah Webster supports JFREJ’s police accountability and Black Lives Matter campaigns by organizing meaningful actions and lobbying for legislative reform. Yehudah facilitates workshops and speaks to audiences around the country to inspire and empower the Jewish community to commit to racial justice.

May Ye is a Chinese-American Jew and rabbinical student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She is the founder of the Person of Color Havurah at Kol Tzedek Synagogue and of Min Hameitzar: A National Network of JOC Havurot. May has worked for Aurora Levins Morales on new liturgy that centers the voices of indigenous Jews and Jews of Color. She has also worked as a rabbinic intern at Tzedek Chicago and is currently a Climate Justice Fellow for POWER in Philadelphia.