Jayme Dale Maillindine serves on the New Orleans Advisory Council at Avodah.
Jayme Dale has spent her career and education poking at the intersections between technology and community-building. Before becoming the Director at URJ 6 Points Sci-Tech Academy in 2018, a national Jewish science and technology summer camp run by the Union of Reform Judaism, Jayme was, at various points, an afterschool program coordinator and summer camp director for a youth social justice program through the AmeriCorps VISTA program, a synagogue education coordinator and social action teacher, an ethnographer studying religious communities who used video games as part of their religious/spiritual practice, and a site lead and teacher for Girls Make Games and Girls Who Code, youth programs that teach middle school and high school girls video game design and computer programming so the future of tech can be more diverse and inclusive.
Jayme grew up in the Appalachian region of North Carolina and dual-majored in Psychology and Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. She then earned a Master’s degree at the University of Texas at Austin. She also used to run her own podcast at GamingBroadly.com about the ways people relate (or don’t relate) to games and the cultures surrounding them! She currently lives in New Orleans with her three-legged German Shepherd, Dexter.