Goucher Hillel Director Wins Award

Release date: January 03, 2007 |

Alison Wielechowski, director of Goucher Hillel, recently earned the Outstanding New Jewish Communal Professional Award from Kehillah, the Jewish Communal Professional Association of Greater Baltimore. The award recognizes individuals with exceptional promise as Jewish communal professionals and encourages careers that serve the Jewish community.

Wielechowski was selected from a pool of professionals, retirees, and students who were nominated by peers throughout Baltimore’s Jewish community. As a recipient of this award, Wielechowski also was presented with a $1,250 grant to subsidize her attendance at a professional development conference.

Wielechowski has been working Hillel of Greater Baltimore for six years and was hired to head Goucher Hillel two years ago. Serving to make Goucher Hillel a focal point for Jewish life on campus, Wielechowski oversees the programming and Jewish learning opportunities, and she leads alternative spring breaks and visits to Israel.

Wielechowski graduated with a bachelor of art degree in political science and history from Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College), and she went on to earn her master’s in Jewish education from Baltimore Hebrew University. She participates on the planning committee for Kehillah and teaches Hebrew studies at Beth El Congregation. 

 “We are very proud of Alison’s accomplishments with Hillel and especially the work that she has accomplished on Goucher’s campus,” says Beth H. Gansky, executive director for Hillel of Greater Baltimore. “She has become a valued member of the Goucher College community, an involved leader in the Baltimore Jewish community, and a wonderful role model for college students.”