JIMENA

Founded in 2002, JIMENA: Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa educates students and adults about the heritage and histories of the one million Jewish refugees from the Middle East and North Africa and their Mizrahi and Sephardic descendants. With staff in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington D.C., JIMENA operates education, engagement, and leadership development initiatives for Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewish communities. Since 2020, JIMENA’s virtual and in-person programs have reached 300,000 individuals around the world annually, including 5,000 people from LA.