Dr. Naya Lekht was born in the former Soviet Union and came to the United States with her family in 1989. She holds a PhD from UCLA in Russian Literature. Dr. Lekht is Director of Education for Club Z, a national Zionist institute and advocacy movement. In her role, Dr. Lekht developed an innovative approach to teaching the Arab-Israeli conflict as well as equipping teens with tools to identify and combat antisemitism. Dr. Lekht has written and lectured extensively on the history of antisemitism and in 2018 was a scholar-in-residence at Oxford University through ISGAP. Her writing can be found in The Jerusalem Post, The Jewish Journal, JNS, The Algemeiner, and Times of Israel.