Carin Mrotz | Not About You Season 2 : Episode 1

“I think that spending time with only people exactly like
you is sad and boring.”


On this episode, Carin Mrotz talks about growing up with social
justice through the lens of teacher parents who engaged with the
union. She talks about what American’s think of when we think of
the American Jewish community and how that isn’t necessarily
representative of the diversity of Jewish experiences and voices.
Can unpacks how whiteness hurts literally everyone, talks about
the relationship between Judaism and resistance, goes deep on
Christian hegemony and tries to explain why Anti-Semitism never
goes away and how it’s used to separate people.


Carin Mrotz is the Executive Director of Jewish Community Action.
She has worked on campaigns for immigrant and workers’ rights and
played a central role in organizing the Jewish community in
support for marriage equality in Minnesota in 2012. Carin has
worked as a trainer, curriculum designer, fundraiser, college
instructor and organizer. She’s one of co-hosts of the political
podcast Wrong About Everything. She grew up in South Florida but
has lived in Minnesota for the past two decades.


Find Carin on twitter @mrotzie


Check out the Wrong About Everything podcast


 


For further reading:


Toward the Next Jewish Rebellion by Yotam Marom – Read I it on
Medium HERE


“A Brief History of Everything” by Ken Wilber 


“How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in
America” by Karen Brodkin