1. What moments in Léa Roback’s childhood and family life were key to the development of her desire to become an activist? What moments in Léa Roback’s travels to Berlin were influential in the development of her political understanding of the world?

2. Léa Roback used her life experiences as a Jewish, working-class, trilingual woman to cross borders in her activist work. How do you use your own varied life experiences to cross borders in your own work?

3. Activists often have to work within or alongside institutional beliefs and practices that need to be confronted, negotiated, and addressed in order to move forward. For example, Léa Roback needed to challenge the beliefs and practices of the Catholic Church in Québec and challenge some of the beliefs and practices of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. How did Roback take up these challenges?

4. Léa Roback used her position as Education Director in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union to begin unionizing work. How might educators use their positions and work to support social justice movements and causes?

5. This biography of Léa Roback’s life and activism included a variety of excerpts from the interviews she gave to Nicole Lacelle, Sophie Bissonnette, and others. Many people have found Roback’s thoughts and words to be inspirational. Were there any thoughts or words that you found to be inspirational? What were they, and in what ways did they inspire you?