Michelle Stein-Evers

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Michelle Stein-Evers, born in Los Angeles, California, is a specialist in Iranian Studies, human rights, and immigration, now residing in Australia. She studied at the Universities of California, Tehran and Pennsylvania, specializing in political science and Iranian Area Studies. Her fields of expertise include Jews of colour and Diaspora communities. While resident in the United States, she was a specialist researcher at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a founder of the Alliance of Black Jews[1], and worked at the Foreign Policy Research Institute at University of Pennsylvania and the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown University. She is a frequent lecturer for The Shalom Institute Adult Education Programs, and has been studying Australian Law at the University of Wollongong.[2],[3],[4]

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  1. ^ Miriam Rinn (Summer 1995). Black Jews: Changing the Face of American Jewry (PDF). The Reporter pp. 11-13. Women's American ORT. Retrieved on 2008-03-16.
  2. ^ "Michelle Stein-Evers", The Shalom Institute
  3. ^ "The Jews of Shi’a Islam" accessed 10/29/2006.
  4. ^ "Biographies of speakers", Limmud Oz, February 22, 2005, accessed January 31, 2007