Adina Gerver, a freelance writer and editor, spent 2008-2009 studying at the Pardes Institute and the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem. She is working at Beit Morasha of Jerusalem this summer, and previously served as assistant director of the Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning and program officer at the Covenant Foundation. Adina enjoys writing about Jewish legal texts, mental health and prayer,  and gender as a lens for exploring religious and ethnic identities. She has a B.A. in History and Women's Studies from Harvard University, and has studied at the Drisha Institute, Midreshet Lindenbaum and Yeshivat Hadar. Adina can be reached at adina@adinagerver.com.