Ayelet Medjuck-Bruckner is a current participant in the Young Judaea Year Course program for students spending a gap year in Israel between high school and university. She was born and raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and graduated from the Frank Sinatra High School of the Arts in June 2025. Next year she will be attending the University of Southern California to study Business of Innovation through the Iovine and Young Academy and the Marshall School of Business. She is an artist, entrepreneur, and proud Jew.