Leah Davenport is a recent College of Charleston graduate, having double majored in Jewish Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies with a minor in Sociology. From 2022 until 2025, she was a research assistant at the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture, finishing research on synagogues across South Carolina and assisting on a project about the Kalushiner Society in Charleston. In addition, Leah has been involved in research with the Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies.

Leah was the president of H.E.A.R., or Holocaust Education, Awareness, and Remembrance, Fall 2022-2025. As president, she spearheaded the campaign to memorialize the Landsmanns in Berlin with Stolpersteine and was responsible for fundraising to cover the costs. The memorial to the Landsmann family was unveiled in Berlin on March 9, 2025. She is also the co-producer of the H.E.A.R. Their Stories podcast that discusses lesser known stories of survival and resistance in the Holocaust.

Her article on the Landsmanns, “Crying Out for Help: The Letters of the Minnie Baum Collection, 1938 – 1941” was published in the Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina Magazine in Spring 2023 and was awarded the Ludwig Lewisohn Prize for the Best Paper in Jewish Studies.

Leah is currently a graduate student at Boston College, working on her Master of Social Work degree and interning at a housing insecurity nonprofit.