Samantha Brotman (Sam), originally from Seattle, WA, graduated from Georgetown University's Masters in Arab Studies program in 2013. She is now Membership Coordinator at Jewish Voice for Peace. She has been a project coordinator with the Arab Studies Institute's Knowledge Production Project since 2011 and has written on the topics of Zionism, Israel, Palestine, Jewish institutional culture and academic freedom for Jadaliyya and Mondoweiss.