CAMERA on Campus Top 12 Student Activists of 2022
Barbara Schiffer

Barbara Schiffer
DePaul University, Class of 2023

Barbara Schiffer, a fourth-year student at DePaul University. Barbara exposed rampant antisemitism at DePaul University including within its Undergraduate Student Government (USG). In 2022, her unwillingness to yield, inspired others to speak out. An anonymous letter detailing a student’s experience with antisemitism at the university lead the USG to hold its first public discussion on the antisemitic incidents. In November 2022, USG issued a statement condemning, “ the continued, systemic, and dramatic escalation of anti-Jewish acts and rhetoric, including incidents of antisemitism on campus.”

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Amir Grunhaus, University of California, Berkeley, 2023

Begzat Mirayev, City, University of London, 2023

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