About Us
Educators are innovators.
The mission of Avenues for Change is to connect educators with respected scholars and experts in the field who share our mission to teach the Holocaust, other genocides, and various human rights topics while promoting empathy and the ability to take action during future human rights issues.
Below are photos of classroom supplies and student materials sent to schools in Poland who took in Ukrainian refugee students during the war in Ukraine.
Memberships and Partnerships
Avenues for Change is proud to collaborate with the following organizations:
California Collaborative on Holocaust Education, member
Jewish Family and Children Services, of San Francisco, Collaborative Membership; Holocaust Educator Council Members 2022 - 2021
National Policy Council of Holocaust Educators, California Representatives
The Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights, California Satellite Leaders
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Museum Teacher Fellow and MTF Representative for the CHEC (Council for Holocaust Education Centers) Program.
Woven Teaching
Affiliations and Awards
Morris Weiss Award Recipients from JCFS
Hilary Levine, Co-Founder
Hilary Levine taught elementary school students in the Fresno Unified School District in Fresno, CA for 25 years. She leads professional development seminars while teaching a Holocaust class at the local high school. Hilary’s passion is Holocaust education, having completed her Masters’ degree in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Gratz College in 2021. Hilary wrote an educator’s guide for Living Among the Dead: My Grandmother’s Holocaust Survival Story of Love and Strength by Adena Bernstein Astrowsky. Teachers can use the educator’s guide to help students broaden their understanding of Living Among the Dead. Hilary is passionate about genealogy and spends her spare time working with friends on their family trees. She has also traveled extensively to Canada, Mexico, England, Poland, Ukraine, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Romania. Tosha Tillotson is the co-founder of Avenues for Change: Holocaust and Genocide Education, a joint venture aimed at supporting teachers in the state of California with high-quality Holocaust education.
Tosha Tillotson, Co-Founder
Tosha Tillotson is currently within her twenty-second year in education. She has taught social studies in grades 6-12 and was a principal of a K-8th grade school. She has an MA in Education from Chapman University. Tosha currently serves as an Associate Superintendent for the Diocese of Sacramento. She has been actively engaged with various Holocaust organizations including serving as a fellow for USHMM, TOLI, and the Vladka Meed Teacher's Resistance Group over her educational career. She also served as the Director of Education for CVHEN for five years and was a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Regional Education Corps. In 2021, both Hilary and Tosha formed Avenues for Change: Holocaust and Genocide Education a joint venture aimed at supporting teachers in the state of California with high quality Holocaust education.