Eliana Willis (she/her) is a rabbinical student at Hebrew College and expects to graduate in 2024. Eliana grew up in Los Angeles and earned a B.A. in Environmental Studies from UC Santa Cruz. While in Santa Cruz she organized with Fossil Free UC, a successful campaign to divest the University of California from fossil fuels. Eliana has worked as a Jewish outdoor educator at Ramah in the Rockies and Teva, and coordinated and crafted Jewish programming for Bamidbar Wilderness Therapy in its first season. Eliana fell in love with Talmud in the batei midrash of Pardes and Hadar, and now teaches at Teen Beit Midrash of Hebrew College. Eliana has been an active member of the Sunrise Movement since 2018. She is passionate about building songful prayer communities and integrating spiritual practice and justice work.
