Ilana is a community development practitioner, with years of experience bringing people together from vastly different backgrounds, using culture as a means for bridging divides. Ilana co-founded freespace (www.freespace.io), an initiative to temporarily transform vacant spaces into community, ...
Read moreIlana is a community development practitioner, with years of experience bringing people together from vastly different backgrounds, using culture as a means for bridging divides. Ilana co-founded freespace (www.freespace.io), an initiative to temporarily transform vacant spaces into community, cultural and arts hubs. She was named by the Obama White House as a Champion of Change for Civic Innovation for her work with freespace.
She sits on the board of Code Tenderloin, a nonprofit dedicated to providing job training and placement for those with the highest barriers to employment. She has previously worked as the political director of a labor union, and a community organizer for workers’ rights, and has led numerous advocacy and political campaigns for social and environmental justice.