Brenda Weitzberg has a BA in psychology and special education with a graduate diploma in administration of early childhood programs. She has more than 30 years experience in administration of home- and center-based early childhood, family support and early intervention programs in Israel, Baltimore and greater Chicago.

For the past 17 years, she and her family have resided in Highland Park, IL where she first served as executive director of Family Network. There she instituted a wide range of programs, most notably the "Right from the Start" program, begun 15 years ago. This is a parent-child early intervention and family support program that now operates in collaboration with four other agencies and has served thousands of low-income, primarily Latino, families with children, ages birth through four years.

Since 1996, Brenda has served as director of north shore operations for Jewish Council for Youth Services (JCYS), a Chicago-based not-for-profit agency. During her tenure, JCYS north shore's budget has almost tripled and she now oversees childcare, preschool, after school, camping, and recreation programs with an annual staff of about 150 and an almost $3 million budget. In the past year, Brenda and other staff at JCYS have also collaborated with UIC to implement Camp STAR, the first such summer treatment program for children with ADHD, autism spectrum and other related difficulties, in the Midwest.

Brenda and her husband, Moshe, are the parents of an adult son with Asperger's syndrome and an adult daughter pursuing her PhD studies at Stanford University.