Michelle Stein-Evers
Michelle Stein-Evers, born in Los Angeles, California, is a specialist in Iranian Studies, human rights, and immigration, now residing in Australia.
Early life and education[edit]
Michelle Stein-Evers was born in Los Angeles, California to a family of Ethiopian-Jewish and African American descent. She studied at the Universities of California, Tehran and Pennsylvania, specializing in political science and Iranian Area Studies. Her fields of expertise include Jews, of colour, and Diaspora communities.
Career[edit]
While resident in the United States, Stein-Evers became a specialist researcher at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. In 1995 she was a co-founder of the National Conference of Black Jews, together with Robin Washington, an Afro-Jewish editor in Boston, and Capers Funnye, a Black Hebrew rabbi in Chicago.[1] She also worked at the Foreign Policy Research Institute at University of Pennsylvania and the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown University.
Stein-Evers emigrated to Australia, where she lives with her husband and daughter. She is a frequent lecturer for The Shalom Institute Adult Education Programs, and has been studying Australian Law at the University of Wollongong.[2][3][4]
References[edit]
- ↑ Miriam Rinn (Summer 1995). "Black Jews: Changing the Face of American Jewry" (PDF). The Reporter. Women's American ORT. pp. 11–13. Retrieved 2008-03-16.
- ↑ "Michelle Stein-Evers", The Shalom Institute
- ↑ "The Jews of Shi’a Islam," accessed 29 October 2006.
- ↑ "Biographies of speakers", Limmud Oz, February 22, 2005, accessed January 31, 2007
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