Judith Jenya
Bosnia / Croatia
A daughter of Russian and Jewish immigrants, Judith grew up in Nevada, in the western United States, where there were no Jews, in fact no foreigners at all. This taught her by personal experience what it felt like to be an outsider. For nearly two decades, Judith held summer camps for war-torn children in Bosnia, Kosovo, Northern Ireland and inner-city Los Angeles. In these camps, she offered American volunteers the opportunity as counselors to contribute deeply meaningful work while learning to see the world through the eyes of the war-torn children.