This podcast—led and produced by Nizhooni Hurd, who is joined in discussion by Cameron Bacher and Zivia Berkowitz—examines the Jewish Berlin Walking Tour with Carolyn Gammon, which covers the historic Jewish Quarter on the trail of the 18th century “German Socrates,” Moses Mendelssohn, Berlin’s first synagogue, the Old Jewish Cemetery, Jewish High School, and where the world’s first female rabbi lived, the city residence of the expressionist painter Max Liebermann, the Holocaust Memorial, and other sites that communicate the significance of Jewish history and culture in Berlin.
Nizhooni was born and raised in Denver, CO, and also claims the Navajo Nation as home, as she belongs to the Red House People. She is a student at Colorado College (CC), where she is an El Pomar Scholar intending to graduate in May 2020 with a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies and a minor in Race, Ethnicity, and Migration Studies. Nizhooni has grown increasingly passionate about exploring the relationships people of color and other underrepresented groups have with the natural world, as well as wanting to actively fight against environmental racism, evident in her work with Environmental Learning for Kids as an Assistant Educator, Urban Ranger, College Lead Urban Ranger, and CC. At CC, Nizhooni is an active member of the Native American Student Union, Black Student Union, and Outdoor Recreation Committee. Her latest and greatest adventure is taking “Hidden Spaces, Hidden Narratives: Intersectionality Studies in Berlin” with Professor Heidi R. Lewis in Germany this summer.
