Alexandra Orbuch of LA is a junior at Princeton University, with a concentration in Politics with a Certificate in Creative Writing. At Princeton, she writes for The Princeton Tory, Nassau Weekly, and Princeton Legal Journal. In addition, Alexandra is a fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions in the Department of Politics at Princeton University and works as a Research Assistant in the Princeton University Psychology Department. Alexandra has spent time working in the worlds of both corporate activism and criminal justice, at Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft LLP and the Loyola Project for the Innocent respectively. As a Beren Summer Fellow in 2023, Alexandra interned with the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.
Alexander Lucero is a senior at George Washington University, where he studies economics and political science in the University Honors Program. Alex spent the summer of 2022 as a Beren Summer Fellow and has interned for AIPAC’s Policy and Government Affairs Department as a research assistant to the organization’s national defense lobbyist. He is a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity and the Phi Alpha Delta Pre-Law Fraternity. He also volunteers as treasurer of GW’s Camp Kesem, which provides community and support to children through and beyond their parent’s cancer. In his hometown of San Diego, California, Alex worked as a Hebrew school teacher throughout high school. He stays involved with his local DC Jewish community by tutoring Hebrew at a local synagogue. Alex hopes to attend Law School and practice as an Attorney.
Tzivia Lutch is an honors political science student at Touro University studying the intersection of appellate jurisprudence, individual rights, and the legislative process. She is currently an intern at the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, working to protect students facing anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism on college campuses. Before joining the Brandeis Center, Tzivia interned at the US Court of Federal Claims (Judge Mathew H. Solomson), the Coalition for Jewish Values, and the Endowment for Middle East Truth. Tzivia has been involved with the Tikvah Fund for over two years, and she is currently a member of the Tikvah Collegiate Forum. After she graduates, Tzivia is looking forward to law school and a career in law and public policy.
Bella Brannon is a third-year student at UCLA, pursuing a major in Public Affairs and dual minors in Digital Humanities and Ethnomusicology. Bella is involved with various Jewish groups on campus, including serving as her Hillel’s Tikkun Olam Director, playing electric bass in the Klezmer Ensemble, and writing about punk rock in Judaism for UCLA’s Ha’Am magazine. Outside of her Judaism, she works for the UCLA Law School’s Center of Technology Law and Policy and runs marathons. Bella’s involvement with Tikvah began in her junior year of high school with the Maimonides Scholars Program. During the summer of 2023, Bella interned with the Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty as part of Tikvah’s Beren Summer Fellowship and serves as the President of Tikvah’s UCLA Campus Chapter.
Juliana Castillo is a junior at Columbia University after taking a year off from college to serve as the Assistant Director of the Solomon Fellowship and Tikvah Scholars Program at the Tikvah Fund. She completed the Beren Summer Fellowship in the summer of 2022, looking at alternative options for Jewish education in a post-COVID era. She was a Eugene du Pont Memorial Scholar at the University of Delaware Honors College, which she attended prior to Columbia; she was also a Research and Communications Intern at the Caesar Rodney Institute, Delaware’s only State Policy Network affiliate. She was a Hertog Institute Summer Fellow in 2021 and is an alumna of the Perlman Music Program and Juilliard School Pre-College Division.
Joshua Shapiro grew up in West Orange, New Jersey, and attended Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School in Livingston. At Kushner, Shapiro was captain of the varsity basketball and baseball teams and senior editor of the school newspaper. In recent summers, Shapiro worked as a counselor at Camp Moshava, Indian Orchard, and the Tikvah Scholars Program. Shapiro spent two years prior to entering college studying in Israel at Yeshivat Orayta, where he founded and managed the Orayta Food Bank and participated in the Tikvah Overseas Student Institute. Now a Straus Scholar at Yeshiva University, Shapiro writes for The Commentator and is pursuing a major in English. Shapiro also serves as the Co-President of Yeshiva University’s Tikvah Campus Chapter along with Shai Kohn.
Logan Schoen is from Arlington Heights, Chicago. He is a junior at American University studying International Service. Logan also intends to focus his major in two thematic areas: (1) Global Economy and (2) Global Inequality and Development and in the Middle East and North Africa. In college, he is currently studying Arabic and aspires to serve as a diplomat in the Middle East. He was the captain of his school debate team and was the recipient of several awards competing in national and state competitions; and attended a Victory Briefs Institute debate camp his junior year of high school. Logan also restarted the Zeta Beta Tau Beta Psi chapter at American University currently serving as the chapter president. Logan currently serves as Co-President of Tikvah’s American University Campus Chapter.
