Dvorah Silverman Consulting Co.

About 

Dvorah Silverman (they/she) is a queer diasporic Jewish settler from Algonquin, Anishinaabe territory ("Ottawa") now living on the homelands of Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples ("Vancouver"). Their ancestry is a mix of Ashkenazi Jewish from the Pale of Settlement (Belarus, Ukraine) and Dutch.

Since childhood, Dvorah had been a disrupter and teller of truths. A common thread throughout their personal and political life is their fierce advocacy for survivors of violence in every form — whether interpersonal, structural or systemic. Dvorah has over twelve years of experience in equity-seeking organizations and institutions across Canada from Montreal to Toronto to Vancouver, including Girls Action Foundation, Habitat for Humanity GTA, YWCA Toronto, YWCA BC, Legal Aid BC, Simon Fraser University (SFU) Faculty of Education and Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) Vancouver.

A driven educator, researcher, strategist and community builder, Dvorah brings an equity framework for education and trauma-informed approach into all of their projects. Their skillset spans the areas of training and facilitation, research and evaluation, communications, strategic advising, project management, fund development and community engagement for social change. Dvorah's strategic process is grounded by frameworks for social justice education, in particular decolonial feminisms, critical race theory, intersectional disability justice and trans liberation. 

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Dvorah holds an M.A. in Equity Studies in Education at SFU, with a focus in critical decolonial feminist pedagogies. Their ethnographic masters research interrogates the interconnected nature of Western feminism and settler colonialism through what they term, the "settler feminist problem (SFP)," a problem they argue may be resisted in the non-profit sector through settler truth telling and responsibility towards building reciprocal relationship with Indigenous communities.

As a grassroots community organizer, Dvorah brings their training and frontline experience in de-escalation and active listening techniques for community safety to movements for justice including #METOO March Toronto, Ada'itsx/Fairy Creek Blockade, Palestinian Youth Movement Vancouver and Vancouver Trans March. As the host of Little Death, a podcast about finding our shared humanity in facing our fear of death, they are intent on archiving local social justice movements in service of embodied futures.

As a Jewish folk practitioner with Davening Liberation Oraciones, Dvorah bridges anti-apartheid advocacy with the healing power of Jewish ancestral folk practices to co-create a liberatory Judaism beyond Zionism. Their political-spiritual life is guided by their diasporic Jewish community that is rooted in the legacy of their revolutionary ancestors and the principle of doikayt — hereness — the right to be, and to fight for justice, wherever they are.