Cara Michelle Silverberg

Cara (she/her) comes to Rachel’s Table with two decades of experience in secular and Jewish land-based education and camp management, and as a learner and leader in the North American Jewish environmental movement. For her work in Western Mass, Cara received a Harold Grinspoon Award for Excellence in Jewish Education. At RTWM, she manages programs where our hands touch the earth, including Bea’s Harvest (our Gleaning program), Growing Gardens, and collaborations with farmers. She finds power and wisdom in her cultural heritages (Jewish and Sicilian/Southern Italian) and approaches program development with awareness of the role that culture, colonization, migration, and diaspora play in people’s relationships with land, food, and nourishment. Since joining the Rachel’s Table family in 2021, Cara has deepened RTWM’s relationships with farmers across Western MA and northern CT and increased our volunteer base in Franklin and Hampshire Counties. She has strengthened and expanded RTWM’s approaches to food equity and addressing root causes of hunger. During our transition to becoming an independent non-profit and beyond, Cara has supported RTWM in exploring what Jewish identity means to us as an organization and how intercultural learning and collaboration can strengthen our partnerships and effectiveness. Outside of RTWM, Cara enjoys writing, doing handstands, and pulling invasive species from the land she stewards with her partner.