Dove Kent

Dove Kent has two decades of experience in grassroots organizing, political education, and movement building. Dove served as the Executive Director of Jews for Racial & Economic Justice from 2011 until 2017, supporting the organization to triple in size and win game-changing legislative victories for police accountability and worker’s rights through powerful local coalitions. Under Dove’s tenure, JFREJ grew into one of the strongest and most effective progressive Jewish organizations in the country, creating significant culture shifts within the Jewish community, New York and nationally. Dove also served as the Senior Strategy Officer at Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice, organizing Jews across the country against the far right during the two years leading up to the defeat of Trump. She is a co-founder of Tzedek Lab, a national network of Jewish political education trainers, organizers, and spiritual leaders established to build collective competency to politicize, transform, and inspire the Jewish community into collective action against racism, antisemitism, and white supremacy. Dove teaches nationally and has been published in What We Do Now: Standing Up for Your Values in Trump’s America (2017), Towards the “Other America”: Anti-racist Resources for White People Taking Action for Black Lives Matter (2015), Understanding Antisemitism: An Offering To Our Movement (2017), and in the Guardian, Ha'aretz, +972 Magazine, and other media outlets. She lives in Durham, North Carolina and serves on the Boards of Durham for All and Carolina Jews for Justice. She is a mother, a stepmother, a dog mother, and an adequate vegetable gardener.

Email: m.dovekent@gmail.com