Sylvia McMillan Finlayson has a Masters Degree in Political Science/Middle East Studies from the University of Utah. During the 1980s she worked with the Proctors on numerous video and film projects and also spent time working with them in Israel and doing rural development in Egypt. She is a student of history and has taught world history in private schools in Salt Lake City and Los Angeles. Sylvia has a passion for other countries and cultures and has served on humanitarian expeditions from Africa to Asia and Europe to Central America. Sylvia is a glider and power pilot and enjoys high adventure. She currently works as the Director of Development for the International Center for Gibbon Studies, lives with her family in Los Angeles and is the Associate Editor of Meridian Magazine.
