Dr. Orna Shemer (she/her) is a Social worker, specializing in community work, is a senior lecturer at the School of Social Work at the Hebrew University. Orna's activity integrate academic work in research and teaching with activity in the field with communities and organizations. In addition, orna serves as the student advisor and in charge of academic position at the School of Social Work.

Her current activity is concentrated in the following areas:

· Practice Wisdom, knowledge from experience, merging knowledge

· Participatory practice and Dialogue

· Community Practice

· Cultural competence and Context-awareness

· Rural sector, cooperatives and intentional communities