Lilly Gontownik hails from Boca Raton and went to Yeshiva High School of South Florida. Before entering university she took spent her gap year at Harova, Jerusalem and is now studying Real Estate at NYU. Lilly first joined Kol Hanearim as a volunteer at Bet Elazraki (and met her husband,  Executive VP Ezra Gontownik!) in 2013, worked as a  coordinator at Bet Elazraki in 2016, and helped launch a new program at the  Emunah Afula Youth Village in 2017.