Executive Director, Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada

Member of the federally appointed Canadian Delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance 

Immediate past President of the Manitoba Multifaith Council. 

Co-founder of the Catholic-Jewish Dialogue of Manitoba. 

Bachelor of Education degree, majoring in French and Judaic Studies. 

Master of Arts with a thesis focusing on the post-Shoah theology of Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, as reflected through the lives of three Canadian survivors.

In 2010, researched, edited, and wrote Voices of Winnipeg Holocaust Survivors, a book that captures the experiences of 73 survivors, including that of her parents.

Member of the Planning Group of the Manitoba Catholic-Jewish Dialogue.

Long history of involvement in Catholic Jewish relations and is committed to the importance of promoting dialogue, understanding and reconciliation between Jews and Catholics.

In October 2015, organized a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Nostra Aetate (In Our Time), a document from the Second Vatican Council that promoted interreligious and interfaith dialogue and recognized our Jewish ancestors as sisters and brothers in the faith.

Until his retirement, manager of Mediation Services of Winnipeg, a non-profit organization, originally established in 1979 as a project of Mennonite Central Committee of Manitoba.

Professor Emerita, St. Thomas More College, Saskatoon, SK

Former Head of the Department of Religion and Culture and Undergraduate Chair, Religion and Culture Program.

Areas of research include Christian Origins, Religion and Popular Culture, Women and Religion which included research on slave religiosity in early Christianity, work on the Feminist Biblical Hermeneutics Task Force and work with the Catholic Biblical Association.

B. Ed. and M.A. degrees from the U. of Manitoba, followed with an M.A. from the U. of Notre Dame culminating with her doctorate from the U. of Cambridge.  

Taught in Jerusalem at the Center for Biblical Studies with the Sisters of Sion who operate the program out of the Ecce Homo Pilgrim Centre in the Old City of Jerusalem.