Alana is passionate about helping others, mentoring, developing leaders, cultivating Jewish identity, building community, and global Jewry.Alana is currently residing in Chicago, Illinois working for BBYO as the Senior Regional Director for the Great Midwest Region. Alana works closely with the thirteen chapters in the Chicagoland area, supporting and mentoring them, training the elected chapter boards, and interfacing with the parents, donors, and volunteer advisors. She also spends her summers with BBYO, playing a key role as a staff for the International Leadership Seminar in Israel, a capstone leadership program for the top teen leaders in BBYO's global network. Before moving to Chicago, Alana spent a year living in Tallinn, Estonia as the JDC-BBYO Fellow as a part of the Jewish Service Corps year long program. She worked with Jewish teens in the community, helping to develop programming, community engagement, and connecting them to the global Jewish community.
Listed skills include Event Planning, Social Media, Newsletters, Editing, and 18 others.