She attended high school in Brookline, Massachusetts, and received a BA from Simmons College with majors in Philosophy and French and a minor in Spanish.
She has continued to obtain oral histories from the survivors of this community, and their testimonies are incorporated in her lecturing and writing.
She created VR Films in 2013 for the production of her prize-winning documentary Out of Print (Director, co-Producer), narrated by Meryl Streep and featuring Jeff Bezos, Scott Turow, Ray Bradbury, John Perry Barlow and others.
Norman A. Stillman, Brill, 2019 Life Interrupted : Interviews with Jews of Libyan Origin, in Jewish Libya: Memory and Identity in Text and Image, eds.
Using Procite for Creating Special Collections Databases and Reserve Reading Lists at the University of California (with R. Brandt and R. J. Heckart), Pro-Cite in Libraries: Applications in Bibliographic Database Management, Deb Renee Biggs, Ed., Medford, NJ: Learned Information, Inc (1995): 113-121.
Data for GIS: The essential ingredient, in Nancy L. Blair, Ed., Proceedings of the Geoscience Information Society, 1995, pp.