Helena has had a very interesting career, including receiving an undergraduate degree from UCLA, a Master's degree from UBC Okanagan, working as a tennis professional and for Nike, as a former city councillor, a business coach and mother of two.
Helena graduated from UCLA and travelled the world as a professional tennis player, achieving a top 100 world ranking. After finishing her tennis career, Helena went on to work for NIKE at their world headquarters in Portland Oregon, where she met her future husband, Adam. They married and eventually moved to Penticton where they raised their children, Zakary and Zoe.
Their business, Konanz Chiropractic Centre, recently celebrated its 27th anniversary. Helena was elected to Penticton City Council from 2011-2018 and represented the city on the board of the Regional District of Okanagan Similkameen (RDOS), the Southern Interior Local Government Association (SILGA), the Southern Interior Municipal Employers Association (SIMEA), and was council liaison to many organizations including the Penticton Industrial Development Association and the Penticton Chamber of Commerce.
Helena attained her master’s degree at UBC Okanagan in Political Science in Fall, 2018. She has since worked as a small business coach for Community Futures. She has won seven national Canadian masters tennis championships and spent nearly a decade volunteering as a coach for the Penticton Secondary School Tennis Team. She is currently on the board of the Penticton Chamber of Commerce and Sunrise Rotary Club.