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Ilana Ruskay-Kidd

Ilana Ruskay-Kidd is the Director of The Saul and Carole Zabar Nursery School at the JCC in Manhattan.  She has been working at the JCC since 2001 and has been the Director of the school since 2006.  Ilana was born and raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and now lives there with her husband and three children, Gabriella (13), Emma (11) and Daniel (7). 

Ilana received her BA from Harvard University and a Master’s Degree in Education from Bank Street College. After being inspired and trained at Central Park East in Harlem, she became a co-founding teacher at the Ella Baker School, an alternative public school in Manhattan. She then went on to work as an Early Childhood Curriculum Consultant for the Children’s Aid Society where she developed curricula with directors and teachers in day care, Head Start and private nursery school programs throughout the city. 

At The JCC in Manhattan, Ilana began as Director of Young Families and then became Senior Director of Family Life, supervising programs serving families and children ages newborn-eighteen years old. 

 Ilana’s Blog Eat, Play Love