For two decades, Kathryn was a print reporter—the fashion writer for The Miami Herald, a crime reporter for The St. Petersburg Times, and a cub reporter for The Washington Post. She and her husband were happily raising their two daughters in Durham, NC when city officials in 2018 approved a toxic boycott against Israel that unleashed a new kind of Jew-hatred in the region. As anti-Zionism infested many local spheres, Kathryn began pushing back in public forums and myriad spaces years before doing so was socially acceptable, even in Jewish communities. Her work has appeared in Tablet Magazine, The Forward, Jewish Journal, and others. She is currently Deputy Director of Community Engagement for Tablet Magazine.
Having served as the President of the Tampa Jewish Community Centers and Federation from 2017 to 2021 and currently serving as the Immediate Past President of the organization, Joe Probasco is an active advocate for the Jewish community and Israel on the legislative, media and inter-group relations fronts and regularly speaks on antisemitism and other topics relevant to the Jewish community. Joe is passionate about the community also serving on the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Federations of North America, the Board of Advisors of the Saint Leo University Center for Catholic-Jewish Studies, the Tampa Jewish Community Relations Council, and the Black Jewish Community Cooperative. Joe also serves as the Managing Partner of Bush Ross, P.A. law firm in Tampa.
