Originally from Argentina, Cecilia has grown working in the Jewish community. Her experience as an educator goes back to 1995 when after obtaining her certification as a madricha she was selected to work in the Sociedad Hebraica Argentina as a group counselor. In the States, Cecilia has served as Program Coordinator for Arachim, a two-year project funded by the Jewish Federation bringing together teens in 8th and 9th grade from six neighboring Jewish synagogues of the Los Angeles South Bay area. She has developed Youth Departments at Temple Menorah in Redondo Beach, and in Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center, doubling membership in her first year as a Youth Director for the Pasadena USY Chapter. In 2005, after participating in the Moving Out of the Box, a workshop to include Israeli Folk Dance into Jewish education at the Skirball Center, Cecilia started teaching Israeli Folk Dance regularly both in Jewish organizations and in the Los Angeles Unified School District through Keshet Chaim. And was after encountering such a positive response from the Jewish community that she started the training sessions for Israeli Folk Dance instructors to fulfill the big demand. Today, she is proud to say that Keshet has a great staff of trained Israeli Folk Dance instructors, with a successful curriculum working in more than a dozen Jewish organizations. Cecilia is the Cultural Arts and Dance Director for Camp Ramah in California and has recently been selected to participate in the March of the Living in 2009 as a group coordinator as she understands the importance of educating and transmitting our history as well as our Folklore.

Cecilia obtained her Psychology degree from the American Jewish University (formerly University of Judaism) in 2006, complementing her two previous degrees in Graphic Design and in Communications from the ORT Technological Institute in Argentina.
 

cecilia@kcdancers.org