INNOVATION AND ACTIVISM

Amanda Berman

Director of legal affairs, The Lawfare Project

Amanda Berman is an attorney and the director of legal affairs at The Lawfare Project, where she is fighting the legal battle to protect and defend the civil rights of the Jewish people. She has been a vocal proponent of civil rights, human rights, and social justice throughout her career. In 2017, Berman co-founded Zioness – a coalition of activists and allies who express their Zionist and progressive values through collective action – after months of discussion with friends and colleagues about the pervasive divisions in the progressive movement and the hostility towards pro-Israel activists. Zioness is driven by the belief that the same values of human rights and self-determination at the heart of progressive causes also underlie Zionism, the movement to achieve self-determination for the Jews, a long-oppressed minority group. (Photo: The Lawfare Project.)