Bara is an artist, educator, and entrepreneur who engages deeply and intuitively with the world around her. An insatiable life learner, she has been a student, teacher, and professor of fine arts, an art director for Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Art and Culture, a designer of interactive Jewish children’s museum exhibits, and a singer in a Ladino group. She is Founder/CEO of City Test Prep, a holistic and mindful test preparation company with offices in New York and the San Francisco Bay area. A thought leader in this field, she is the first to combine mindful and human potential techniques with academic study and test-taking strategic mojo. She’s written books, produced audio courses, and is on the brink of new frontiers delivering products to help transform study for high-stakes tests, from mundane and loathed to actively raising the madrega/level. Bara holds Masters degrees in Education from the Jewish Theological Seminary and in Art History from the University of Michigan/Ann Arbor. She also has certifications in Hypnosis, Integrative Life Coaching, Reiki, and Neuro-linguistics programming (NLP). She lectures and conducts workshops for students, parents, educators, business people, and creative professionals seeking high-performance results at school, work, and in life. She imbues ceremony in the ordinary, and delights in manifesting the extraordinary. She loves California cuisine, festival ethos, and travel. She regularly produces community events, tends her small fruit orchard, and breathes in the view from her home. She feels extremely grateful for the weave of community, friends, family, teachers, and students. She is most often found with her four-legged familiar, Eloise.