Marva Shalev Marom

Marva Shalev Marom is a PhD student at Stanford Graduate School of Education, in the concentration for Education and Jewish studies (EdJS) and Race Inequality and Language in Education (RILE). Since 2006, Marva created educational initiatives with marginalized youth in Israel. She founded a music center in Jaffa, near Tel Aviv, working predominantly with Jewish Ethiopian immigrants and local Palestinian communities. For her dissertation, Marva conducts community based research with her Ethiopian Israeli students, on the intersection of religion and race, and nation building in Israel.