Janet Singer Apple­field holds a Mas­ter of Social Work from Boston Uni­ver­si­ty. She speaks to 4,000 stu­dents a year about her expe­ri­ences dur­ing the Holo­caust and the impor­tance of stand­ing up to big­otry and hate. In 2021, she addressed the Mass­a­chu­setts State Leg­is­la­ture in sup­port of man­dat­ing geno­cide edu­ca­tion in pub­lic schools.