India Wood (she/her) is joining UUJME as our first part-time organizer. India is both a life-long Unitarian Universalist and culturally Jewish - or a "Jew-U," as she likes to call herself. She grew up outside Boston, attending the Unitarian Church in Winchester, MA starting around the age of 8. It was at Winchester Unitarian Society in the high school youth group where she began to learn about justice and power, and started to develop an interest in activism and organizing. After attending undergrad at Oberlin College, India began working as both a health and sexuality educator at a couple of Boston area schools, and as the youth ministry coordinator at First Parish UU in Wayland and the UU Area Church at First Parish in Sherborn. While she worked in both schools and in congregations, India began volunteering as an organizer and trainer with the Sunrise Movement, a youth-led climate justice group. Through  Sunrise, she learned the importance of relational organizing and other key skills to building powerful campaigns. 

This past fall, India began her graduate education, pursuing an MDiv and a master's in social work. Her first year of seminary was dramatically impacted by the escalating violence in Gaza, and her faith and dedication to justice called her to action. Since October, she has been organizing with local interfaith ceasefire groups, as well as IfNotNow, helping to create trainings, run programs and campaigns, and mobilize people to actions. India is thrilled to continue working as a faith-based organizer with UUJME! 

India can be reached at [email protected].