Caroline Kubzansky

2015-2016 Rising Voices Fellow Caroline Kubzansky

Caroline Kubzansky is a senior at Washington DC’s Edmund Burke School who is passionate about using the written word to create social change. She is thrilled to be a part of the JWA community and help write “the first draft of history.” On the rare occasion that she doesn’t have her nose in a book or her journal, Caroline loves being outside, editing her school newspaper, and discussing books with her friends and teachers. She will be a first-year at the University of Chicago in the fall.

Blog Posts

2016-2017 Rising Voices Fellow Maya Jodidio Pipetting DNA into a Gel

To Girls Taking Their First STEM Classes

Caroline Kubzansky
Maya Jodidio
If you’re a female-identifying teen and you attend high school, chances are good that you take, or will take, a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) class. Physics, biology, and chemistry are the usual suspects. We’re writing to share some collective wisdom with you from our own high-school experience.
Books Stock Photo

In Charlottesville’s Wake, Avoiding the “Ivory Tower”

Caroline Kubzansky
Here is how I will respond to the horrors of Charlottesville as a student activist. Discussion is great, activism (in this case) is better.
Bella Abzug at Rally to Impeach Nixon

Justice You Shall Pursue

Caroline Kubzansky

Jews have a particular responsibility to ensure proper use of presidential power.

Topics: Passover, Law
Image from Climate March, April 29

Climates of Change

Caroline Kubzansky

If the planet warms 3.6 degrees, that is the point of no return—the point at which extreme weather will become normal and humans will have to adapt to survive.

Kubzansky Family Portrait

President Trump's Proposed Budget and The Loss of American Potential

Caroline Kubzansky

In my journal is a piece of paper that’s older than I am. I’ve been carrying it around for some time and reading it at almost every available opportunity, though at this point, I know it almost by heart.

Empty Journal

A Journalistic Odyssey: Or, Why I write obsessively

Caroline Kubzansky

I’ve kept a journal since I was ten years old-- just over a third of my life. After seven years of writing, I’ve filled eighteen notebooks, all of which I’ve kept in a box under my bed. I can get lost for hours in these old volumes; I’ve been known to lose full weekend evenings to re-reading my thoughts from sixth grade. 

Rising Voices Fellow Caroline Kubzansky Behind Spools of Thread and Other Materials

Coloring in Between the Lines

Caroline Kubzansky

When I was in 6th grade, I hit a boy in my class over the head with my lunchbox because he called my best friend gay and said that my jacket made me look gay too. I knew that he wasn’t using “gay” as a nice thing, and I was infuriated on my friend’s behalf. 

Pixabay Image: Person Behind Stack of Books

The Nerd Herd

Caroline Kubzansky

If there’s one thing that characterized my formal Jewish education, it would have to be my profound dislike of it. Though I’ve always felt deeply connected to my Judaism, both culturally and religiously, organized religious school was extremely difficult for me. 

Barbra Streisand in What's Up, Doc?

Unlearning Silence in What’s Up, Doc?

Caroline Kubzansky

For all that I am the outspoken, proud nerd in my school life, for all that I try to speak up for my views and ask questions in academic settings, for all that I am confidently liberal in conservative settings— I am distinctly self-conscious about all of it. 

Topics: Feminism, Comedy, Film
The Genderqueer Pride Flag

We’re Not In Oxford Anymore

Caroline Kubzansky

I am one of the biggest grammar freaks that I know. I proudly count myself as a “soldier of the subjunctive,” and I find cartoons about comma placement to be hilarious-- so it may come as a surprise that I was excited when The American Dialect Society voted an ”incorrect” use of English to be the defining word of 2015. The word in question? The singular “they.” 

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