North Carolina

Rinah Rachel Galper

she/them

joyoushout.com

Rinah Rachel Galper, founder of Joyoushout, is an ordained Kohenet and Maggid, change maker and community connector, coach and healer, JEDI (Justice Equity Diversity Inclusion) consultant, educator, and writer. She specializes in supporting all who work for liberation and love at the intersection of spirituality, justice, healing, and creativity. Rinah is a queer, Jewish, lower middle class, neurodivergent, magic making woman of Russian Jewish ancestry in recovery from addition and trauma who has dedicated her life to co-creating communities and relationships rooted in and driven by our shared needs for love, care, joy, wonder and wisdom, beauty, creativity, dignity, and justice. She is a passionate believer in creating microcosms of the world we wish to live in and leave to our descendants. Joyoushout offers the following: - ongoing individual coaching sessions to engaged folks needing support during major life transitions, - consulting for white identified companies and organizations seeking to engage in reparations work, - enrichment classes for youth K-12 through its Change Makers programs and 1:1 tutoring, & - ongoing adult gatherings and retreats at "The Spot", our new space in Durham, NC (with virtual options). Joyoushout is also working in partnership with the Beloved Community Center in Greensboro to create a Durham/Chapel Hill branch of the statewide Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission and is in the process of creating a community support collective comprised of service providers committed to offering equitable access to a wide array of services in our local communities and beyond. For more information on joining us or for a free consultation, please contact Rinah at joyoushout@gmail.com or 646 241-7555.

Janet Devorah Danforth

Janet is a social worker and chaplain, with Master's Degrees in Social Work, Religious (Jewish) Studies, and Bioethics. She is currently working in a Continuing Care Retirement Community in Chapel Hill, NC, officiating at funerals and creating other bereavement rituals. Her heart is especially open to bikur cholim (visits) with Holocaust Survivors. jdanforth@gmail.com

Elyza Halev

Elyza is granddaughter of Russian & Polish immigrants, she seeks to tap the wisdom of her well-ancestors, who on both sides come from the tribe of Lavi. Her proudest moments and deepest challenges have been in the joyous project of mother to Avishai, Davida and Shoshana, now young adults all, along with her partner Jeff. Her past work in public health informs her community organizing and she serves as Jewish educator and artist. Currently she is at work on her next project - the creation of Beit Ohr-Lev b’Derekh, Home to the Light in the Way of the Heart, a space for working through craft, prayer and divination to tap deeply into the source of the Divine to discover and trust in our true path for this one sweet life we have been given.