![]() ![]() They are the parents of identical twins, Maxwell and Coltrane, who were born in 2013. ![]() They have been married since 2011 and currently reside in Rhinebeck, New York. ![]() Last year, Schwartz Delgado made a television special for the Black Entertainment Television channel titled “Content for Change: Black x Jewish.” The program, which featured prominent Black Jewish media personalities as well as clergy, explored the intersectionality of Black Jewish identity and the history of Black and Jewish communities coming together to promote inclusivity and social change.ĭelgado, who was born in Schenectady, New York, and Delgado Schwartz met at Harvard Law School. ![]() These days, according to her website, Schwartz Delgado is a writer, director and producer at Truth Aid, an independent media company that produces content to effect social change. “So, for me, it was going through a process and truly an educational experience of learning the reality of who we are as a Jewish people, which is a diverse group of people, from very diverse backgrounds.” “I think a lot of that is because society was almost telling us that being Black and Jewish was, at times, almost diametrically opposed - and, in fact, it’s not in reality,” she added. “ There’s always this conversation about where the Black-Jewish dialogue is, but there are a bunch of us who are actually having those conversations internally and struggle to internally integrate those identities,” Schwartz Delgado told JTA in a 2018 interview. She went on to become the national outreach director and New York regional director of Be’chol Lashon, a California-based organization that promotes and educates on racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity in Jewish communities. The discovery forced Schwartz Delgado to reconcile her notions of what it meant to be Jewish - which, growing up, she said, she had always associated with being white. When the Black Student Alliance at Georgetown sent her a welcome letter based on a photo she had submitted during her college application, Schwartz Delgado confronted her mother, only to learn that mother had an affair, and a child, with a family friend who was Black. Still, it wasn’t until she began college at Georgetown University that Schwartz Delgado began to question the family’s version. At her bat mitzvah, as she recalls in her documentary, a congregant commented that it was “nice to have an Ethiopian Jew in our midst.” Schwartz Delgado, 45, was raised Jewish in upstate Woodstock, New York, by parents who told her that she had a darker complexion because of a Sicilian grandfather. Lacey Schwartz Delgado, a Black Jewish filmmaker, attorney and writer, is best known for her highly personal 2015 documentary, “ Little White Lie.” The film explores how Delgado discovered a family secret - namely, that her father was African American - and how that challenged various identities, including her Jewish identity. The 45-year-old Democrat - who represents New York’s 19th congressional district, which encompasses the Catskills and the mid-Hudson Valley - will also likely be her running mate in the upcoming gubernatorial election in November.ĭelgado will be replacing former lieutenant governor Brian Benjamin, who abruptly resigned last month after being i ndicted on federal bribery charges. Antonio Delgado as the state’s new lieutenant governor. ( New York Jewish Week) – Lacey Schwartz Delgado, the wife of New York State’s newly appointed lieutenant governor, has explored her Black and Jewish identity in interviews and an acclaimed 2015 documentary. ![]()
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