[1] After moving to Canada, she taught for many years at McLaughlin College of York University.
Hecht was very active in the Jewish community, as well as interfaith conferences about religion and art.
She taught and worked as a magazine illustrator, and exhibited widely in the United States, Canada and abroad.
[1] Hecht was diagnosed with vascular dementia in later years, and began using a wheelchair after a series of strokes near the end of her life.
[3] She was the subject of a paper published after her death, discussing the possibility that art could be used to help stave off the effects of Alzheimer's disease.