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She served on the Advisory Board of the charity A Sense of Home, ASOH youtube.com; accessed May 12, 2017. which offers safety and community to children who age out of the foster care system at age eighteen. Founded by Georgie Smith, ASOH founder Smith said of Medavoy and her charity, "ASOH began as a random act of kindness when I responded to a cry for a help from a young man who had aged out of foster care, and who had secured an apartment but had no means to obtain a solitary item that might make it feel like home. {Smith's] partner Melissa Goddard and [Smith] couldn’t help but notice the great void in our community. All foster youth who age out of the system, having never been adopted, are all alone in the world, without family members to offer them hand me downs let alone the helping hand it requires to source, collect, install and make a space feel like home: Home is the foundation we all need to thrive. Each year, 35,000 young people age out in the US. Statistics predict they are the least likely to succeed. Fifty percent of foster children will experience homelessness.

In 1991, Medavoy founded Phoenix Enterprises with Pirie Jones and together with American Telecast produced product marketing television programs including the hair care series 'Beverly Hills Beauty'. Her direct marketing company sold on QVC where Medavoy invented, manufactured and sold beauty, health, fitness and self-help products for women. Her electronic response firm called High Heels and Loafers with partner Pirie Jones created a company at King World to direct response sales.

In 1984, she married Harris L. Katleman, president and CEO of 20th Century Fox Television in a Jewish ceremony in Beverly Hills, California. In 1995, she married film producer Mike Medavoy. They have a son, Nicholas.

Irena Medavoy, aka Irena Ferris (born Irene Gerasimenko on September 19, 1958), is an American philanthropist, activist, and entrepreneur.

Fluent in Russian and English, Medavoy was born Irena Gerasimenko to Russian Orthodox immigrant parents, Margaret and Vladimir Gerasimenko. Both her parents had been in German concentration camps during World War II after which they fled to Morocco and then immigrated to the United States in 1957. While she was still in high school she worked for Tichi Wilkerson Miles, the first female editor of The Hollywood Reporter