She serves as a Northwest representative to the EEWC-CFT Council, and was a plenary speaker and workshop presenter at the EEWC-Christian Feminism Today 2010 gathering in Indianapolis, Indiana. An audio of her plenary speech at the 2008 EEWC Conference may be heard here. Alena believes that Mary Daly, an ardent animal lover who dedicated some of her books to her cats, would be pleased with Alena and her husband Bradley’s adoption of Yuffie, their third feline family member in Medford, Oregon.