Eliana Melmed is a junior at Milken Community School in Los Angeles. She enjoys long bike rides on the beach almost as much as she enjoys performing in musicals and doing dissections in biology. After school, Eliana competes with her school's swim and water polo teams, and she looks forward to each weekend when she is a counselor for two-year-olds at her synagogue. When Eliana is feeling overwhelmed, she relaxes by playing the violin, curling up with a good book, or taking out a spiral-bound journal and ballpoint pen.