Do you want to:
Use your voice to inspire change and share your advocacy story?
Enhance your advocacy skills?
Learn from policy and advocacy experts?
Partner with colleagues from across the country?
Join Shma Koleinu: Hear Our Voices (The National Jewish Early Childhood Advocacy Coalition) for an interactive and collaborative gathering as we advocate for children, families, and early childhood education together!
Facilitated by Dr. Ilana Dvorin Friedman
Dr. Ilana Dvorin Friedman is the Director of Early Childhood Advocacy and Strategy at the Jewish United Fund (JUF) in Chicago. Her professional and research interests include early childhood Jewish education, child care advocacy, and social justice and critical pedagogies. For more than thirteen years, Ilana has been an adjunct instructor and child development consultant teaching courses at a variety of academic institutions and providing professional development for early childhood professionals. Ilana holds a PhD in Child Development, having completed her dissertation on gender beliefs of teachers in Orthodox Jewish early childhood programs. She lives in Skokie, Illinois with her husband and five children.