Helena Weiss-Duman, PMP,  is a project manager, conference producer, and educator. As a past Advocacy Day attendee, she is thrilled to be more involved and support the work of Jewish California. She is especially interested in immigration advocacy, as her father was a Holocaust refugee.

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Professionally, she has three decades of experience in public relations and event management. She currently serves as the Deputy Director of External Relations and Marketing Communications at UC Berkeley. As a consultant, she teaches project management at UC Berkeley Extension and has produced conferences at Berkeley, Stanford, and MIT.

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Helena loves entertaining, traveling, and studying the cultural anthropology of religion. She enjoys her new empty-nesting status with her husband in the San Francisco East Bay (Castro Valley) and is a member of Temple Sinai in Oakland, where she has served on the board and the education committee and chaired Mitzvah Day.