Liana Wertman is the founder and Executive Director of The Torah Studio, a radically accessible and inclusive Jewish learning space that offers learners the tools they need to build a Torah study practice that nourishes them spiritually, intellectually, and emotionally. Previously, she worked as the Youth Director of Temple Israel of Hollywood for two years, as Director of the Counselor in Training Program at Gindling Hilltop Camp from 2016 to 2018, and was a Beit Midrash Educator at the Brandeis Collegiate Institute in 2022. Liana completed the Year Program at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, spent two summers in the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Beit Midrash, and participated in the inaugural SVARA Pedagogy Chaburah.