Debby ShoctorFor more than three decades, Debby Shoctor has been one of the people knitting together Jewish life in Edmonton-preserving its past in the archives, widening its cultural footprint, and steering the city's central communal organization through years of change. Her career has run the gamut of the institutions that anchor Jewish Edmonton: B'nai Brith Edmonton, Hadassah-WIZO, the old Jewish Community Centre, the Jewish Archives and Historical Society of Edmonton and Northern Alberta (JAHSENA), and the Jewish Federation of Edmonton.Her background in English, Journalism, publishing and Library Science has helped her in her writing, editing, and community service careers. A graduate of the University of Toronto; King's College, Dalhousie; and the University of Alberta, she moved from Toronto to Edmonton in 1987, where she became deeply involved in the life of the Jewish and general communities, and never looked back. She worked in publishing for the Ontario Government, Prentice-Hall Canada, and Lone Pine Publishing, as well as freelancing for the Edmonton Journal, the local Jewish newspapers, and other publications. Read More Read Less