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Lithuania / Europe Map

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Blairgowrie, mid 1900s

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Central Oregon, one of my favorite places!

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My family practices Reformed Judaism and my parents are involved with our local synagogue. I mostly experience Judaism culturally rather than as a religious practice.

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Squirrel photo shoot.

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I grew up in Beaverton, Oregon and it has fostered a long-lasting love of nature in me.

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I grew up with the interwebs and all of the social media weirdness that came along with that. But I don't relate to everything people say about millenials... For example, I read books (and... a lot of my millenial friends do too!)

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I identify as a woman, which is the gender I was assigned at birth.

However, I see masculinity and femininity as something everyone expresses/experiences on a spectrum, rather than a binary.

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My family is white and has adopted many of the cultural norms associated with whiteness in the United States. For example, much of my family's ethnic history and Jewish cultural customs were lost as my parents and their parents assimilated into US culture.

For me, part of being white and holding anti-racist values is constantly examining the ways white supremacist culture has influenced my way of life.

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I am 50% Lithuanian, and 50% Scottish. My family specifically comes from a part of Lithuania that is now Poland. Below is a family portrait  of my Scottish ancestors in the city of Blairgowrie in the late 1800s.