Bina Lefkovitz
Board Member, Sacramento COE
Bina Lefkovitz, has worked in various capacities in the youth and community development fields for the past 35 years. Her expertise is in policy, program and partnership development, community planning and youth development. Currently she is a Trustee on the Sacramento County Board of Education, part time faculty at CSUS, and consults with organizations on youth civic engagement and career pathway strategies. From 1999-2010, Ms. Lefkovitz founded and co-directed a nonprofit, the Youth Development Network (YDN). Prior to 1999 Ms. Lefkovitz served as Special Projects Director to the Sacramento City Manager, and as the Community Development Director for the Housing and Redevelopment Agency.
Ms. Lefkovitz has a B.A. from Tulane University and a Masters from the LBJ School of Public Policy. Ms Lefkovitz’s strengths are: responsibility, deliberative, achiever, connector and learner. She currently serves on Congregation B’nai Israel’s Board of Directors and is engaged in social justice work with Area Congregations Together. In her spare time you will find her bike riding along the American River and in the foothills around Sacramento.