Annalisa Stryer is a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion who hails from northern Virginia and earned her BS in computer science and religion from the University of Mary Washington. She has served at a TJF fellow at Rockdale Temple, where she introduced seventh and eighth graders to the diversity of American Jewish movements, and at Congregation Beth Adam, where she assisted in the radical restructuring of curriculum for Our Village, the congregation’s innovative religious school.