Covid: Inclusive Jewish Communities Must Continue to Maintain Pandemic Safety Practices
June 9, 2025
In our shared community spaces, we take responsibility for centering the needs and safety of the most impacted people.
Roan Boucher is a facilitator consultant and political educator for social movement organizations. In 2010, he co-founded AORTA (the Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance) and is now at Pollinator Consulting. He is passionate about supporting healthy communities and strong organizations through mediation, facilitation and culture-building. In addition to supporting groups to work together smoothly and equitably, he wants everyone to be talking about challenging Christian supremacy and Christian nationalism. To this end, he facilitates political education trainings for organizations, including Liberation for All of Us; Confronting Christian Supremacy; and Dismantling Antisemitism. Roan is also a movement artist, a member of his local mask bloc, on the board of the Jewish Covid Resilience Network, a member of Tzedek Lab and deeply involved in his Jewish community, Makom. He lives in the North Carolina Triangle region with his two children and two tiny dogs.
In our shared community spaces, we take responsibility for centering the needs and safety of the most impacted people.
This year, as the gates closed during the final service of Yom Kippur, I looked around the bimah. I was surrounded by my beloved community:
Serving as central organization of the Reconstructionist movement
Training the next generation of groundbreaking rabbis
Modeling respectful conversations on pressing Jewish issues
Curating original, Jewish rituals, and convening Jewish creatives
