Barb Shimansky, MSW

Barb brings extensive experience in youth education to Sinai at both the elementary and secondary levels.  She continues to serve as visiting faculty during the summer at NFTY’s premier leadership development program, URJ Camp Kutz.  Barb has advised youth groups and has facilitated workshops on informal education at URJ Biennials.  Before working for the reform movement, her focus was on children, working as a school social worker, a foster care worker, and a senior juvenile assessment specialist for the State of Michigan.