Inna Fershteyn

Inna was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine where she studied in Special Music School as a pianist and immigrated to the United States in 1991. She graduated from New York University in 1995 with a bachelor’s degree in Music Business and Technology, magna cum laude and went on to earn her Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, from Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 1998 and has been practicing law for over 23 years. Inna has always dedicated her time to helping others and devoted a significant amount of her efforts to working and helping children with disabilities. She served as an advisor on NYU Langone Pediatrics Family Advisory Board for over 10 years, became a member of the Board of Directors of Edith and Carl Marks JCH of Bensonhurst and helped to establish and support The Menahem Educational Foundation to insure that every Jewish child has access to great education. She also supports Tikvah Children’s Home of Odesa Ukraine – an educational institution for orphaned Jewish kids in Odesa, Ukraine, which she visits frequently.

When the war in Ukraine started, it was no surprise that she joined the emergency fundraising and evacuation efforts establishing World Help Ukraine with her partners, raising over $320,000 in direct monetary donations in the first month of the war. She also devoted countless time and effort to saving lives in Ukraine - from organizing and shipping over $30K of life saving medical supplies to a Kyiv Hospital directly, to purchasing several buses to evacuate elderly and disabled people from Kyiv and Kharkiv, to raising over $200K for the purchase and delivery of protective vests and plates for ordinary citizens to defend and protect themselves. Through a separate campaign, she raised over $35K in Emergency campaign funds for TIkvah Children’s Home of Odesa, Ukraine.

Inna was also instrumental in establishing and training volunteers for human rights violation watch campaign to document and later prosecute crimes against humanity and terrible atrocities committed by war criminals in Ukraine, from interviewing survivors to documenting video testimonies from eye witnesses.