 In her spare time, Yavilah enjoys teaching and performing her family’s legacy of Jewish Gospel.In 2009, Yavilah McCoy co-wrote and performed “The Colors of Water,” an original theatrical piece that tells the story of the four generations of her African-American Jewish family, as part of Mayyim Hayyim’s Living Waters International Mikveh Conference in Newton, Massachusetts.McCoy attended school in the Crown Heights area, and studied at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel.