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Ella Nayor is an award-winning freelance journalist and community educator in Southwest Florida. Ms. Nayor’s focus is on humanitarian and socially conscious issues. Her work on thought-provocative issues such as the Holocaust and Muslims living in Southwest Florida has raised attention and interest to these and other sensitive issues in the Southwest Florida community. Aside from her journalism work, Ms. Nayor is a board member, community educator and facilitator and grants writer and fundraiser for The Laboratory Theater of Florida. 

Ms. Nayor helps secure grant money and other funding for the socially conscious award-winning community theater. And throughout the theater season, Ms. Nayor works to create local expert-based community education panels for patrons to better understand sensitive issues such as race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, mental health, and human relations. Throughout the year, Ms. Nayor creates educational and experiential opportunities for visitors and patrons to learn about the Holocaust through programming with Holocaust survivors, WWII liberators, Hitler’s Youth speaker, and rabbis and clergy. At present, Ms. Nayor is working to create a Holocaust Education Department at the Jewish Federation of Lee and Charlotte Counties and is their volunteer Holocaust Education Director. This new department will be instrumental in developing anti-Semitism programs in the schools and Holocaust education, awareness, and remembrance for the Southwest Florida community. Ms. Nayor is a graduate of Gratz College in Philadelphia, where she is working towards a master’s degree in Holocaust and Genocide Studies where she is set to graduate this fall. In the past nearly 15 years, Ms. Nayor has spoken around the country at schools, colleges, and community organizations to promote understanding, acceptance, and dialogue about humanity.

She lives in Fort Myers, Fl. With her husband, Jeff, and two Scottish terriers Dexter and Fionn.