PEERS
Avi Garelick
Avi Garelick is an upper Manhattan rabblerouser, lifelong learner, and experimenter with community building and ritual. Besides his ongoing attempts at creative collectivity, he has also published essays on urban politics and other topics which can be found, for example, in Jewish Currents, New York Review of Architecture, and Jacobin. He is the director of a Hebrew School for teenagers in Morningside Heights.
Avi Garelick and Paloma Lara
Paloma Lara
Born in the Dominican Republic, raised in the LES, and awakened through her community work Uptown, Paloma Lara is a board member of Northern Manhattan Community Land Trust, a former Met Council housing board member, lead organizer at Rent Justice Coalition, and a founding member of Uptown for Community Justice. Paloma is a thought provoking community organizer who unapologetically seeks truth and justice. She believes that at the forefront of critical mass movement are tenants. She is rooted in her love for black liberation and a revolution filled with music, art, and dance.
