JANET PRICE has been immersed in education reform since 1981 as an education lawyer, as a teacher of adolescent English language learners (teaching history, literature, career exploration, sex ed and tap dance) and as the founding principal of a small public  high school in Williamsburg  that fully includes students with special needs.  More recently she has been  juggling a practice as an education consultant with the Herculean task of honing her craft as a fiction writer.

Janet joined Kolot in 2013.  Over the last glorious 10 years she has dressed Kolotniks for Purim; played Haman in the Purim spiel;  recruited Kolotniks to show up at the crack of dawn for “15 and a union” demos; cleaned up after shivas and driven Kolotniks to doctor appointments; shamased and brought the bagels; drashed and leyned; done a High Holiday fund-raising pitch; produced an interpretation of the Jonah story on Yom Kippur; participated in the Kolot trip to Israel/Palestine;  brought coffee and donuts to the striking Carwasheros–a typical Kolot resume.  Since the early days of the COVID epidemic, Janet has coordinated Kolot’s Saturday morning Torah Study, her favorite Kolot assignment to date.

Janet  lives in Brooklyn with her wife, Linda  and her dog, Sunshine.  Her motto comes courtesy of  Oscar Wilde:  “Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.”