Lena McLeod has been a Community Relations Coordinator with Canadian Jewish Congress Pacific Region since November of 2006. She has a Criminology and Sociology degree from Simon Fraser University and almost 10 years of experience working and volunteering for various local social service organizations. Lena’s past work has been in areas such as non-profit, human rights, community outreach, program development, education and employment counseling.

Lena was born in Lvov, Ukraine and immigrated to Canada with her family in 1992. She is fluent in Russian. Lena is currently on Maternity Leave until February 2011.