A participant at the first Limmud Bay area, Yelena is the Creative Producer & Head of Education at Oculus Story Studio (Facebook), leading their efforts in outreach and curation. She is back from presenting at the Cannes and Tribeca Film Festivals on the possibility of social change through storytelling with Virtual Reality. Prior to Story Studio, Yelena was the Creative Producer of the annual Future of StoryTelling (FoST) summit, an invitation-only event that gathers top executives, marketers, creatives, and technologists with the vision and influence to change how people communicate and tell stories in the digital age. Yelena is also a consultant for the Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier program and spent four years in the documentary division at Participant Media, working on Food Inc and Waiting for Superman.