Erica Schultz

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Erica is a graphic designer, Judaica artist, writer, community organizer, vocalist (mezzo-soprano) and performer. After 22 years in the Boston area, she relocated in September 2011 to the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where she lives with her partner, the actor Tom Giordano.

She currently spends her days at the Ramaz School, a K-12 Orthodox Jewish day school on the Upper East Side, working under the title "Marketing & New Media Associate" to manage their website content and online presence.

She grew up in Valparaiso, Indiana, a medium-sized exurb college town about an hour outside of Chicago. After graduating from Brandeis University in 1993, she converted to Judaism in February 1996, at the age of 23. For the ensuing 15 years, she was deeply involved at Temple Beth Shalom (the Tremont Street Shul) in Cambridge, MA.

She is popularly known as the Human Jukebox and will take all comers at Encore. She still maintains the only known fan site for 1990s Brandeis campus band Falling August.

She is a staunch supporter of the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and Medical Students for Choice, and a rabid adversary of supermarket "rewards" cards and the TSA.

Other things in which she takes a particular interest:

• Peanuts (although no relation to Charles Schulz)
• The Hebrew alphabet
• Languages and linguistics
• Healing modalities ranging from psychotherapy to bodywork
• Ethical non-monogamy
• Contra dancing, in NYC and in Boston
• Puzzles and games, especially crosswords and such board games as Apples to Apples and Scrabble™ (plus, of course, Encore). In general, the more verbal the better. Not, in general, computer games, except for Kingdom of Loathing (online) and Animal Crossing (Nintendo GameCube).

She had for many years the username "muffin". This legacy is preserved today in her line of shiny candylike 1" buttons, MuffinButtons.com.

She built this website by hand in HTML. She can do that for you, too.