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Gili Ronen was born in Jerusalem, Israel and moved to America when she was 4 years old, just in time to completely lose all the Hebrew she had learned up until that point. The next pivotal time in her life was when she transferred to a new school (Pierce Elementary in Brookline, MA) in the 6th grade. There, Ms. Coverdale had her share the role of Snow White with Claudia Lopes. Ms. Coverdale explained that while Gili's strength was in her singing, Claudia could actually act.

From there, Gili sang a lot in high school (danced some and tried desperately to act, too): show tunes, Gilbert and Sullivan, and lots of classical choral music. At that time, believe it or not, she was and Alto (gasp!!) and her voice teacher kept insisting that she was a soprano. Not to listen to someone with more experience than she, it wasn't until her voice teacher at Oberlin College joined the campaign. Gili begrudgingly obliged and sang soprano in the Oberlin College Choir as well as her co-ed acapella group, In A Chord.

Since college, Gili has sung with Singing City Choir, Anna Crusis Women's Choir, Porta Farm Women's choir in Zimbabwe, and at all of her friends weddings. She'd sing at your wedding too if you paid her. In addition to singing, which happens to be one of her favorite things to do in the world, she is a training consultant seeking full time employment in the non-profit world, co-captains ultimate Frisbee teams, volunteers for Women Organized Against Rape, serves on the Five County Democratic Women’s Coalition, and was elected in 2002 as a Democratic State Committee person. In her spare time she talks to her nephew and his mother on the phone in Ithaca and her friends in Philly, DC, NYC, etc., plays Scrabble with her sweetheart Derek, and spoils their pooch Nyala.

Gili is currently on leave from SheWho.