Romy Ronen was born and raised in NYC and grad­u­at­ed from the joint pro­gram at Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty and The Jew­ish The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary, where she stud­ied Film and Media and Jew­ish Lit­er­a­ture, respec­tive­ly. She has a Master’s in Jew­ish Stud­ies from Colum­bia University’s Grad­u­ate School of Arts and Sci­ences at the Insti­tute for Israel and Jew­ish Stud­ies (IIJS). Ronen is a Ph.D. stu­dent in Com­mu­ni­ca­tions at the Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty Grad­u­ate School of Jour­nal­ism. In 2019, she pub­licly con­front­ed the then Prime Min­is­ter of Malaysia at the Colum­bia Lead­ers Forum regard­ing his out­spo­ken anti­semitism and pub­lic denial of the Holo­caust. Ronen is a ​‘36 Under 36’ Hon­oree, cho­sen by the Jew­ish Week/​Times of Israel as one of the 2020 36 top Jew­ish inno­va­tors, activists and vision­ar­ies, and is grate­ful to have received numer­ous awards for her activ­i­ties, pub­lished Op-Eds, and oth­er writ­ten work. Bilin­gual in both Hebrew and Eng­lish, Ronen is pas­sion­ate about trans­lat­ing, and has expe­ri­ence in trans­lat­ing books, arti­cles, essays, and cre­ative writ­ing from Hebrew to English.