Just be you-GSA Club hosts Hannah Waskowitz

The Just Be You-GSA Club hosted its second guest speaker, Hannah Waskowitz, in late February. Waskowitz, who attended Seven Hills from 2010-12, discussed the KESHET organization which works for full equality and inclusion for youth who are both Jewish and in the LBGTQ community. Waskowitz (she/they) attends The New School in New York, is a theater artist, and social advocate. They are involved in social justice groups that advocate for mutual aid, labor rights, and queer and Jewish rights. They combine their passion for social advocacy with their theater and artistic practices and has worked with NYC-based performance groups to produce shows around queer expression, environmental protection, social justice, and gender identity. After college, they plan on expanding this work toward museum and educational programs to help make social advocacy engaging and accessible to people of all identities and backgrounds. “You can still be queer and yourself without coming out,” Waskowitz said, as the take-away lesson for students.