Name: Misha Shtender

Social Justice Group: Anti-Semitism

Date of Fieldwork: February 2, 2024

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Eric LaManga

Type of Fieldwork: [69]

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?:

On Friday, February 2rd 2024, My social justice group interviewed Erica LaManga. She is one of the middle school Math Teachers and one of the leaders of the Jewish Affinity Group (JAG). We asked if she had ever experienced
Anti-Semitism in the workplace. She went on to say that she hasn’t experienced direct Anti-Semitism in the workplace but told a story about how in the old school that she taught, some students drew Swastikas (卐) in the school bathrooms. A Swastika (卐) was the emblem of the German Nazi Party. Even though this wasn’t direct Anti-Semitism towards Erica, she went on to talk about how it affected her and her Jewish colleagues. She fortunately has not experienced Anti-Semitism at LREI or had any kid come to her about an Anti-Semetic issue.

-Misha Shtender