About Ilanit
A neighbor, an advocate, a teacher first.
For more than two decades, Sunnyvale has been the place where Ilanit raised her family, built her career in education, and put down deep roots in the community. She knows our schools from the inside — as a parent who walked her kids through Vargas, Cherry Chase, Sunnyvale Middle, and Homestead High, and as a teacher who sat with families when they needed someone to listen.
Ilanit's two children are now university students — proud graduates of Homestead High School and Middle College. Watching them grow up through our local schools shaped her conviction that public education is the single most important investment a community makes in its future.
Before becoming a parent advocate, Ilanit worked as a special education teacher. That experience — sitting with students whose needs were complicated, with parents who felt unheard, with families who just needed someone in their corner — became the foundation of how she sees this role. The right support at the right moment can change a student's life. She has watched it happen.
Over the years, Ilanit has devoted hundreds of hours to volunteering across the Sunnyvale schools — as a teacher's assistant, a room parent, an event organizer, and an art docent. She has also been a steady advocate for students with special needs and their parents, and led a parents' support group for families raising children with special needs.
Beyond the schools, she volunteered at El Camino Hospital, where she worked to improve the experience of patients and their families during some of their most difficult days.
Outside the classroom and the school board agenda, you'll find Ilanit volunteering with two local animal-rescue organizations, climbing routes at the local crag, and showing up wherever the community needs another set of hands.
