Naya Lekht was born in the former Soviet Union and came to the United States with her family in 1989. She received her PhD in Russian Literature and wrote her dissertation on Holocaust literature in the Soviet Union. Naya is currently the Education Editor for White Rose Magazine and a Research Fellow for the Institute for Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy. Naya has taught at both the collegiate and high school level courses on Russian literature, the Holocaust, Zionism, and history of Russian Jewry.