Marti Krow-Local is co-creator of the Secular Yiddish Schools of North America Special Collection at Stanford University Libraries. She attended an International Workers Order (IWO/Ordn) shule and mitlshul in Los Angeles before earning her B.A. at UC Santa Cruz and then her Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard. Krow-Lucal has taught classes on 19th-century history and Yiddish literature at Elder Hostel, Yiddishkayt L.A. and the Palo Alto JCC.