Publications & Press
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Podcasts, Poetry, & Videos
How Do We Get Free?
Dr. Chapman speaks about weaving nourishing and liberatory community as a path of ancestral healing on the Jewish Ancestral Healing Podcast, Season 3, Episode 3 (May 2023).
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Creativity & Caregiving
Dr. Chapman and her mother, Dr. Pat Romney, discuss the intersections of caretaking and creativity on Instagram Live with Lilith Magazine (May 2023).
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The Richness of the Margins
Dr. Chapman speaks about the richness of the margins on Jewtina y Co.’s podcast, VOCES, Season 2, Episode 3 (Oct 2021).
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Unetaneh Tokef for Black Lives
Dr. Chapman talks about her liturgical poem while also discussing related historical and societal considerations on the dybbukast (May 2021).
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Raising Race Conscious Jewish Children During the Modern Civil Rights Era
Dr. Chapman and franny silverman’s workshop on raising race conscious Jewish children for Center City Kehilah (June 2021).
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Moving Toward Racial Equity
Dr. Chapman and franny silverman led a virtual session at the JCCs of North America’s 2021 convention, where they introduced concepts and tools to generate goals, inventory resources, and deepen inquiry toward organizational clarity on racial equity (April 2021).
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Unetaneh Tokef for Black Lives
Dr. Chapman’s “Unetaneh Tokef for Black Lives,” draws from a prayer that inspires fear and awe during the High Holidays and the impact of a list of killings of Black Americans. It is published in Lilith Magazine (Summer 2020).
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“I Don’t See Color”
Dr. Chapman is interviewed on The Coaching Show Podcast where she discusses how awareness and acknowledgement of social identities impacts and supports effective coaching (June 2020).
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Articles & Blog Posts
How to Raise Peacemakers
Dr. Chapman and franny silverman are featured in Anya Kamenetz’s blog, The Golden Hour, about raising race-conscious children (Feb 2024).
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The Beginning of an Answer
Dr. Chapman’s interview with the Jews of Color Initiative reflecting on what she’s learned since she wrote the original copy of her chapter in “Racial Equity-Informed Philanthropy: A Funder Resource from a Jewish Perspective” (Feb 2023).
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Re-Cognizing History
Dr. Chapman writes for the JCC Association’s blog about the histories she was taught and the histories often forgotten, and the many different kinds of ancestors she looks to for courage and grounding (Feb 2022).
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Touch
Dr. Chapman’s reflection on the sense of touch is featured in Mitsui Collective’s gathering of artistic offerings and practices titled “Reflecting Resilience: An Embodied Guide to Hanukkah” (Winter 2021).
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When a Notorious Criminal is One of Us
Dr. Chapman writes about how stories get used to simply and reify dangerous myths and generalizations on Lilith Magazine’s blog (July 2021).
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Choosing
Dr. Chapman’s piece on choosing Judaism is published on Jewtina y Co.’s blog (April 2021).
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Workshop Informs on Teaching Kids about Race
The Philadelphia Jewish Exponent writes about Dr. Chapman and franny silverman’s workshop on raising race-conscious kids (June 2021).
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Good Morning America Discussant
Joan Lunden interviews Imani and Wellesley College’s Nan Stein on Sexual Harassment of High School Girls (April 1993).
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Book Chapters & Scholarly Research
Interwoven Oppressions
Dr. Chapman was the lead report author, project designer, and research lead of “Interwoven Oppressions: Unraveling the impacts of racism and
antisemitism as dual vectors of trauma for
Jews of Color at the intersection of the body,” commissioned by Mitsui Collective (2024).
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Look, Language, Laughter, and Love
Dr. Chapman’s chapter, titled “Look, Language, Laughter and Love: An
Afrolatin Jewish Experience in the US,” is part of the Peoplehood Papers 32 on Latin American Jewish Peoplehood (Sept 2023).
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Tapped Out
Dr. Chapman’s doctoral research on the role of Beloved Community in sustaining DEI Practitioners of Color in NAIS Independent Schools, as part of the Interfaith Doctor of Ministry Program for Clinical Education in Pastoral Care at Hebrew Union College (Jan 2023).
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Racial Equity Informed Philanthropy
Dr. Chapman authored a chapter on Racial Justice Conceptual Framework for the Jews of Color Initiative and Slingshot’s resource “Racial Equity Informed Philanthropy: A Funder Resource from a Jewish Perspective” (2022).
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Shedding Light on Solidarity
Dr. Chapman’s co-written essay, “Shedding Light on Solidarity: A Candle Loses Nothing by Lighting Another Candle,” based on the Torah portion B’haalot’cha, is published in The Social Justice Commentary (Nov 2021).
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Black Girl at the Playground
Dr. Chapman wrote a chapter called “Black Girl at the Playground” in the book Teaching Brilliant Beautiful Black Girls (2021).
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Jews of Color Community Landscape Report
Commissioned by JDC Entwine, Dr. Chapman’s report reflects a call by Jews of Color to which they hope the Institutions who seek to serve them will respond in broader, more systematic and more inclusive ways (May 2020).
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Converting to What?
Dr. Chapman’s co-authored work, “Converting to What? A Jewish Afrolatina Story,” is published in The CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly Journal of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (Summer 2020).
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Letters
Dr. Chapman co-authored a chapter called “Letters” about racial intimacy and anti-racism at her Brooklyn synagogue. It is published in the book Uncommon Bonds: Women Reflect on Race and Friendship (2018).
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Interested in publishing Imani’s work?
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