Nance Adler on Resistance, Survivors, and Upstanders

The Well QA Podcast

Nance Adler is a Jewish educator. She is a Teachers Fellow at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum as well as a Powell Fellow at the Holocaust Center for Humanity in Seattle. She is the educator and curriculum designer for WE ARE HERE! Foundation for Upstanders. Nance has received many accolades and awards and is published both for pedagogy and curriculum development.

She has taught for the past 16 years at the Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle where she focuses on inspiring a love of Judaism and using one’s “Jewish lenses” as a way to approach the world to make it better for all Creation.

Katie and Andrew talk with Nance about what it means to be an "upstander", the importance of telling resistance stories, and even Holocaust movies. Thank you Nance Adler for being our guest on The Well QA!

Also, watch Nance's keynote speech in Perth, Australia in 2019 about "What I Teach and Why": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdXbdRucP78