Lerone Edalati serves as a researcher on mul­ti­ple projects to doc­u­ment the oral his­to­ries of Masha­di and Iran­ian Jews for aca­d­e­mics and non-prof­it insti­tu­tions. Lerone holds a bach­e­lor’s in Mid­dle East­ern & Islam­ic Stud­ies from New York Uni­ver­si­ty and a mas­ter’s in Mid­dle East­ern Stud­ies from The Grad­u­ate Cen­ter, City Uni­ver­si­ty of New York. She is a Broome & Allen Fel­low at the Amer­i­can Sephar­di Federation.