Pnina Goldfarb, Gan Ami Early Chilhood Director and Assistant Associate Director of the JCC, has a Ph. D. in special education and a Doctoral Minor in child psychology. She has thirty years of experience in special education focusing on children, ages three to eighteen. These include classroom teaching, teacher training, university instruction, and administration. She has been with the JCC for 13 years. Pnina’s goals are to maintain a dynamic, creative, and nurturing learning environment where everyday both children and staff smile. She also strives to create a warm community of young families. Pnina loves to have lots of company, biking, and reading many books at one time. With her only child in college, Pnina looks to all the children in Gan Ami to fill her spirit with smiles that only children can trigger.