On a Sunday morning the campus of American University in Washington D.C. looks almost deserted. But step inside the conference room where the annual conference of the National Union of Jewish LGBT Students (NUJLS) is taking place, and you’re in the midst of the happening in town. Some eighty students from dozens of campuses across the country took a leave for the weekend from homework and papers and flocked to the nation’s capital to celebrate -- and to examine and debate -- the confluence of the Jewish and LGBT identities.

By Joelle Fiss, ROI Grant recipient

What’s delightful about receiving an ROI writing grant is that when the project is winding up to its closure and you are asked to send out a final report, in reality, you are right at the beginning of your journey. Soon, ROI readers (and similar creatures) will read your essay.