Anat Shalem
The academic director of the "Intellectual Journeys" program
Anat is a doctoral candidate in the Gender Studies program at Bar-Ilan University, and is a feminist activist in the areas of reproductive rights. She has a BA in cognitive science and the Amirim Interdisciplinary Honors Program in the Humanities and an MA in Jewish thought, both cum laude, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Anat has worked at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute since 2018, first as the editorial coordinator of the academic journal Theory and Criticism, and since 2024 as the academic director of Intellectual Journeys.