Email: csilverberg@feedwma.org
Cara (she/her) comes to Rachel’s Table with two decades of experience in secular and Jewish land-based education and non-profit 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 oversees program development, evaluation, and regional network engagement to ensure strategic alignment with community need, local agricultural systems, and long-term impact. She is particularly passionate about integrating land-based approaches to food security and food system resilience into all RTWM programs. Cara 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. Outside of RTWM, Cara enjoys writing, practicing trapeze, and pulling invasive species from the land she stewards with her partner.