Listen to Sharon Gubbay Helfer talk about her incredible career and life path, from her Masters in Comparative Education and PhD in Jewish Studies, to her oral history work with Concordia's Centre for Oral History and Digital Studies (COHDS) and her dialogue work with the Montreal Dialogue Group and the Compassionate Listening Project. Beyond outlining the steps on her path, in this oral history Sharon also discusses the inspirations and motivations for her work, the challenges and values she finds in dialogue and compassionate listening, and her relationship with Judaism and her Sephardic heritage. Sharon Gubbay Helfer is an oral historian and a scholar-practitioner of difficult dialogues, as well as a Research Associate with Concordia University's Centre for Oral History and Digital Studies (COHDS) and Concordia University's Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies.
