Irit Reinheimer is an artist based in Philadelphia. Her films, Young, Jewish and Left, How the Bridge Works, I Told Her This Was Home, and Of Origin have screened internationally. Push the Water was published by Thread Makes Blanket Press in 2023, and was her first book and one of several pieces she worked on at the Image Text MFA program at Ithaca College. Irit is a former Leeway Foundation Art and Change grantee (2006). Beyond her artistic practices, Irit has worked for over a decade in communications for community-based projects and organizations focused on social change, including the Leeway Foundation and the American Friends Service Committee. She is currently a development associate at Make the Road PA and a long-time member and current board member of Jewish Voice for Peace.