Elena is in her fifth year of Studio Art at the University of Guelph, completing her Studio Art degree with a double minor in Art History and Theatre Studies. Elena paints with bright colors and bold lines and is focuses on how portraiture can be used as a method of communicating one's personal trauma, healing and the pain that accompanies growing up. As a form of activism against anti-Semitism, her current work is meant to confront viewers of the violence that occurs against Jews today, though to also consider their own emotions and experiences based on the symbols and words that stand out to them.