Alona Weimer is an organizer, educator, and graduate student living in Los Angeles, California.

Alona is a PhD Student in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she researches diasporic memory within Black and Jewish literary and political writing. Looking at the United States and Germany as sites to untangle the haunting afterlives of violence and the (im)possibility of repair, Alona is most interested in the rhetorical use of analogy, the theories and practices of reparations, and the mobilization of memory in social movements.

Alona brings this learning into her organizing, where she weaves together commitments to redress racial violence, build communities of collective action, and live out a vibrant Jewish life. Alona finds her political home at Tzedek Lab and Kavod — sites of progressive Jewish organizing intervening against racism, antisemitism, and white supremacy. Alona is also a co-founder of the Liberatory Jewish Studies Network, where she is currently building a network of academic workers envisioning and cultivating the field of Jewish Studies beyond Zionism

Before beginning her PhD, Alona completed a masters degree in race and migration studies at Freie Universität Berlin, a fellowship studying talmudic texts at the Hadar Institute, and a Fulbright Grant teaching English in Chemnitz, Germany. Alona earned her BA in Black Studies at Brandeis University.