Bea Lurie is the daugh­ter of two child Holo­caust sur­vivors, her father, Sol, and her moth­er, Eve­lyn Rebec­ca Lurie, whose par­ents escaped from Poland with two tod­dlers. Bea learned from her par­ents’ actions the impor­tance of help­ing those in need. She devot­ed her career to mak­ing a dif­fer­ence in the lives of oth­ers as a leader of non­prof­it orga­ni­za­tions and gov­ern­ment agen­cies, and as an own­er of two busi­ness­es. Bea also is an active vol­un­teer in her com­mu­ni­ty and at her local synagogue.