Ethan Helfand
Purveyor of Jewish Experiences, Pragmatic Idealist, Amateur LEGO Engineer
Ethan Helfand, Kansas City Native, currently serves as the director of Jewish Experiences, a collaboration of Jewish Federation and The J.
Helfand graduated with a Master of Arts in Judaic Studies at Brandeis University and with a Bachelor of Arts of Judaic Studies and Philosophy from The George Washington University. He focused his efforts in Jewish community programming and organizational and leadership development.
He was most recently the associate director of programs and leadership at Jewish Life at Duke, the Hillel at Duke University and was the regional teen engagement director of EMTZA Region USY with the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.