Alona Weimer is an organizer, educator, and graduate student living in Los Angeles, California.

Alona is a PhD student in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she focuses on Black and Jewish literary and political writing. Looking at the United States and Germany as sites to untangle historic afterlives and the propensity for repair, Alona is interested in the rhetorical use of analogy, the theories and practices of reparations, and the mobilization of memory in social movements.

Alona takes this learning to her organizing, weaving together commitments to redressing racial violence, building communities of collective action, and living out a vibrant Jewish life. Alona finds her political home at Tzedek Lab and Kavod — sites of progressive Jewish organizing intervening against racism, antisemitism, and white supremacy.

Before beginning her PhD, Alona completed a masters degree in race and migration studies at Freie Universität Berlin, a fellowship studying talmudic texts at the Hadar Institute, and a Fulbright Grant teaching English in Leipzig, Germany.