Claire Eisenstadt is a freshman studying political science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. There she is on the leadership board at Hillel and serves on a university Senate committee. She also studies Hebrew and earned the Illinois Seal of Biliteracy. Claire has been active in advocating against antisemitism and raising awareness in the Jewish community. This earned her Hadassah’s Leaders of Tomorrow Scholarship which enabled her to attend Young Judaea’s Gesher Israel trip in 2023. Claire’s advocacy also was recognized by the State of Illinois with a House Resolution. For her leadership in founding her high school’s Holocaust Remembrance Day Assembly and improving the school curriculum to include antisemitism education, she earned a distinction by the JUF Chicago as a 2024 18 Under 18 Honoree.