40 Under 40: Kaylin Berinhout
Mazel Tov to Kaylin Berinhout for being named to Jewish Atlanta's 40 Under 40.
If you’re looking for someone who understands others’ perspectives and has the tools and passion to share them, look no further than Kaylin Berinhout.
In between Birthright and an internship program, she wanted to go work on farms, went out to a moshav out in the Jordan Valley, to live and work with the Jewish farmers there. Those farmers had friends who were Palestinian farmers in a different area of the West Bank, who Berinhout stayed with and worked with as well.
“They were so warm, and so welcoming. It was Ramadan, so they weren’t eating and drinking during the day, but they were still out there helping us with the farm work and showing us what to do.”
As part of the internship that followed, she also went to a Druze homestay, noting a slight language barrier overcome with the help of Google translate, but a deep and abiding love for the family there.
This passion, combined with the work she did on an impact campaign for a film in college, and her post-college work at the Atlanta Jewish Foundation, helping manage their involvement in the Atlanta Charitable Advisor Network, naturally drew her to ATL Jewish Film, where she is currently Senior Manager of Education & Community Engagement.
“The heart of my work with ATL Jewish Film is building bridges, and using film for empathy building, for bringing people together. I feel like art is really a way in, and a way to connect people.”
“A big passion of mine is peacebuilding and conflict transformation, which I’ve learned through this job and people I’ve been exposed to.”
She lives in Kirkwood with her partner, Chelsea, and is actively involved in the Tish Niggun collective, a spiritual singing group started through Ma’alot.