Yelena Lembersky

Heather chats with Yelena Lembersky, an architect in Boston who immigrated from the USSR with her mother in 1987. Her memoir "Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour" discusses the dramatic events that lead up to their departure from the Soviet Union and Heather and Yelena pick up where the memoir ends--with Yelena's commitment to raise her children within the Jewish tradition that Yelena herself was not allowed to explore as a youth. Yelena graduated with a double Bachelors in Art and Science from the University of Michigan. She moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to pursue her Masters of Architecture at MIT. Yelena has also published a monograph on her grandfather's art, "Felix Lembersky: Paintings and Drawings."