Joanna Ware is Keshet's Boston Regional Director, overseeing Keshet's community-building, education, and advocacy work in Greater Boston. While at Keshet, Joanna has built powerful communities of LGBTQ Jews and allies across Massachusetts and the country working in support of full justice and equality for LGBTQ people. Joanna holds a Bachelor's degree from Antioch College in Gender studies and Middle East studies, is an alumna of the JOIN for Justice Jewish Organizing Fellowship, and is a current Schusterman Fellow. Her past professional experience is in youth work, informal education, anti-violence and anti-sexism education, policy advocacy, and community organizing. Originally from San Diego, she has spent time living, learning, and working at the intersections of gender, sexuality, faith, and politics in Israel and Western Europe. She currently lives in Jamaica Plain, MA, with her partner and three cats. On the critical question of whether she'd choose flight or invisibility as her superpower, she always chooses to fly.