Pamela McColl
Pamela McColl | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | University of Manitoba |
| Occupation(s) | Entrepreneur, advocate |
| Website | www |
Pamela McColl is a Canadian publishing entrepreneur[1] and advocate of children's issues and smoking cessation best known for releasing a smoke-free version of the classic Twas The Night Before Christmas.[2]
Her career includes previous experience in publishing, as a health care worker with Canadian Mental Health and as labor support doula. Her early career was spent the field of costume design for film and theatre and she attended the National Theatre School in Montreal, Quebec and worked at the Stratford Festival in Ontario and the CBC. The Vancouver resident earned a BA in History/Sociology as she attended Queen’s University, the University of Manitoba, and did postgraduate work in Theatre History at the University of Victoria. She returned to study as a mature student in the faculty of Women’s Studies at the University of British Columbia and holds certification in Peer Counseling.
Her company Grafton and Scratch Publishing[3] has published Baby and Me Tobacco Free, which she co-authored with Laurie Adams, and is the publisher of Twas The Night Before Christmas.
She is the publisher of seven books, including Pacific Spirit: The Forest Reborn, which United States Senator Frank Murkowski, the chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, labeled as “one of the most important works on forest management” in recent years.[4]
McColl has been featured in major media including The New York Post,[5] Huffington Post,[6] The View with Barbara Walters, Vanity Fair, and USA Today.[7]
References
- ^ "Santa Claus Forced to Quit Smoking During His Most Stressful Season" Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2014-6-22.
- ^ "Santa Quits Smoking In New Edition Of Best-Selling Christmas Classic" Boston Globe. Retrieved 2014-6-22.
- ^ "Santa Claus can quit smoking you can" Epoch Times. Retrieved 2014-6-22.
- ^ "Re: Endorsement of Pacific Spirit - The Forest Reborn" Retrieved 2014-6-22.
- ^ "Santa doesn’t smoke a pipe in PC rewrite of Twas the Night" The New York Post. Retrieved 2014-6-22.
- ^ "Santa Quits Smoking: 'Twas The Night Before Christmas' Loses References To Santa Smoking" Huffington Post. Retrieved 2014-6-22.
- ^ "Column: OK, so Santa has flaws, too" USA Today. Retrieved 2014-6-22.
External links
- Twas the Night Before Christmas Official site