As CEO of the Jews of Color Initiative, Ilana Kaufman will soon meet with and learn from communities across the country during JoCI’s first-ever nationwide Listening Tour. In advance, she’s diving deep into the art of listening, building on her countless conversations since JoCI’s founding in 2017 with Jews of Color, communal leaders, and people who simply want Jewish life to reflect their full identities.

At a time when both Jewish and Latino communities are grappling with fear, grief, and misinformation, Raíces y Redes offers a model rooted in empathy, curiosity, and shared humanity. “There needs to be a collective reckoning that yes, we are experiencing an emergency—and there’s also another community in front of us experiencing an emergency right now. No emergency is more important than another.”