Ozzy Gold-Shapiro

Bio

Ozzy is very honored to be joining the Board. They have been a part of the CBI community since 2001, when they began attending religious school. Since 2019, they have been teaching at ALMA, and have been involved at shul in various capacities including (but not limited to!) catering kiddush, leading children's services, playing klezmer music, creating large scale puppetry performances, and organizing with the Reparations Working Group. This past summer, they worked as a professional Ashkenazi Jewish wedding jester (badkhn), led a teen Dada-ist cabaret in Canada, co-organized a klezmer festival with over 300 attendees, became an uncle, sang in Ladino in a Jewish eggplant pageant, danced professionally in Minneapolis, led a parade at the Clark Museum, and even had their first appearance as an extra in the film Janet Planet!