Avra is lover of flowers and sloths, two of their greatest teachers. One of their most potent prayer experiences is during Kabbalat Shabbat at Kohenet when they ended up halfway across the room, didn’t remember how they got there, and we were one pulsing.They learned boundless love through the love they receive through their parents and siblings. They discovered radical imagination and sacred time through building time machines in the living room on Shabbat afternoons. They have two Fayegleh ancestors, one on each side, and wear Faygeleh as their middle name. They reclaim and re-remember their deviant nature, and are proud of their rebel ancestors. They currently reside on occupied Potawatomie, Ojibwa and Odawa land known as Chicago.
They worked as an adjunct instructor at the Wolcott School, supporting students with learning differences to find their gifts through the power of spoken word poetry. They are currently an organizer and trainer at the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, where they organize Jews around police brutality and other anti-racist efforts and facilitate trainings on racial justice, the intersections of antisemitism and white supremacy, and organizing skills. They are a song-leader and musician.