Samantha Woll biography: 13 things about Detroit, Michigan woman

Samantha Woll was a Jewish American woman from Lafayette Park, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, United States. She earned her bachelor’s degree in medieval and early modern studies from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan.

In 2010, Woll studied Spanish at Middlebury Language Schools in Middlebury, Vermont, USA. In 2015, she went back there to study Arabic.

Woll was instrumental in the founding of the Muslim-Jewish Forum of Detroit. In 2017, she was named in the 36 under 36 list of the Detroit Jewish News.

In 2022, Woll became the president of the Isaac Agree Downtown Detroit Synagogue in Detroit. Here are 13 more things about her:

1. From May 2007 to August 2007, she was a program coordinator and a communication intern at Isha L’Isha – Haifa Feminist Center in Haifa, Israel.
2. From September 2007 to June 2008, she was an outreach coordinator at Mobile Dentists in Detroit.
3. From September 2008 to November 2008, she was a Grassroots Campaigns, Inc. field organizer. She worked in different parts of the U.S. including Colorado, Ohio and Pennsylvania where she mobilized voters to help elect Democrats including Barack Obama.
4. From September 2010 to December 2010, she was a microenterprise fellow at The Women’s Initiative for Self-Employment in San Francisco, California, USA.
5. In 2011, she studied international studies at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
6. From September 2014 to June 2015, she was a school relationship manager at Smile Programs in Farmington Hills, Michigan. From September 2015 to May 2016, she was a Smiles Program talent acquisition specialist.
7. From June 2016 to August 2016, she was a volunteer coordinator for Stephanie Chang. From January 2017 to March 2017, she assisted in providing constituent services for Chang’s office. From January 2022 to June 2022, she was campaign manager for Chang.
8. From August 2016 to November 2016, she was a field organizer for the Michigan Democratic Party.
9. From June 2017 to March 2018, she was a Michigan House Democratic Caucus constituent relations analyst in Lansing, Michigan. From March 2018 to November 2018, she was a campaign manager for Padma Kuppa.
10. From February 2019 to January 2021, she was a deputy director for Elissa Slotkin.
11. From September 2021 to November 2021, she was a campaign manager for Denzel McCampbell.
12. From June 2022 to November 2022, she was political director for Dana Nessel.
13. On October 20, 2023, she attended a wedding. When she got home in Lafayette Park on October 21, 2023, she was fatally stabbed inside her residence allegedly by Michael Manuel Jackson-Bolanos, then 28. She was 40.

Michael Manuel Jackson-Bolanos, 28, was charged of murdering Detroit Jewish leader Samantha Woll after allegedly lying about breaking into cars in the Lafayette Park area. https://t.co/bEt4cs8BkQ

— Detroit Metro Times (@metrotimes) December 14, 2023