Liana Wertman (she/her) is the founder and Executive Director of The Torah Studio. She’s taught the foundational Parsha Class at Torah Studio for the last four years (among many other courses), and is excited to begin offering Introduction to Text Study as a new way to access the world of Jewish text. She’s a graduate of USC (BA ‘16) and of HUC (MEdL, ‘22) and an alumna of Pardes (19-20), Yarshrut’s Classic Talmud Program, and SVARA’s Pedagogy Chabura. She’s taught Torah to thousands of students around the world, including with HUC, My Jewish Learning, Judaism UnBound, and BCI. Liana lives in Idyllwild, California with her husband, Joe, and spends her time reading, making art, and thinking too much.