Sydney Burgess

Sydney is the COO of Butterfly Books and a freshman at the University of California, Berkeley, where she studies Political Science. She is a graduate of the Madeira School in McLean, Virginia, where she served on the committee of diversity, equity and inclusion, and edited and wrote for their newspaper. Sydney is an alum of both the Jewish Women’s Archive (JWA) Rising Voices fellowship and the jGirls+ Teen Editorial Board, positions in which she has researched the intersections of feminism and Judaism. Sydney joined Butterfly Books because of her deep love of reading and her drive to share this love with everyone around her, especially those whose communities are often underserved in the educational system. Sydney loves to swim, read, write, scream-sing Taylor Swift songs very poorly, and volunteer with her local daycare center.