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Ilana Cone Kennedy
Chief Executive Officer
Holocaust Center for Humanity · Seattle, WA
Holocaust education leader Ilana Cone Kennedy has been promoted to Chief Executive Officer of the Holocaust Center for Humanity. Most recently, she has served as Chief Operating Officer.
With 20 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, Cone Kennedy is focused on creating and facilitating programs that affect change, offering experiences that engage people of all ages, and challenging individuals to consider how their actions, even the small ones, have the power to make a difference.
She has been the driving force and architect of initiatives that help lead the industry today, including the Center’s Lunch and Learn series, the Student Leadership Board, Ambassadors for Change, and the online Survivors Encyclopedia.
Cone Kennedy is a recipient of the Pamela Waechter award for Jewish Communal Service, a Jackson Foundation Leadership Fellow, and a member of the Board of the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Crimes against Humanity at Western Washington University. She has participated in numerous Holocaust education programs nationally and internationally, including those through the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and Yad Vashem.
The Holocaust Center for Humanity teaches the lessons of the Holocaust, inspiring students of all ages to confront bigotry and indifference, promote human dignity, and take action. It builds courageous communities by teaching and honoring the history, stories, and lessons of the Holocaust. These lessons give people of all ages an empathetic lens to view today’s complex issues and see the role they can each play in fighting hate. Through education, events, field trips, museum visits, and community programs focused throughout Washington state, the Holocaust Center for Humanity remains dedicated to fighting hate by educating students, teachers, and the general public about the dangers of intolerance and the difference each one of us can make.