Abby Menashe is the VP Admin Assistant at Ida B. Wells. Although that is her job title, Menashe has overseen many other things in her 18 years at IBW. Menashe started in the special event planning field and although she originally came to IBW because it was close by and easy with her kids attending, she quickly fell in love with it. Born and raised in Portland, Menashe journeyed to Seattle to attend University of Washington and get a business and marketing degree. While in school she loved joining clubs and taking leadership roles inside them. Today when she is not at school she still gravitates towards those leadership roles with her love for volunteering. This passion led her to be on the board of a nonprofit called Positive Charge PDX. Under Menashe's guidance, the students at IBW started a positive charge club. Suppose she wasn't an admin member, Menashe would do something to help make the community stronger and volunteer wherever she could. Menashe says, “I feel really lucky to be here at Ida B. Wells and have gone from just being an employee and community member to having my own kids here for seven years and then again without and seeing all stages of that, and that's wonderful.”

Written by Shalom Dinberg, Intro to Communications, Fall 2024