Deborah Paul

After the Ark Deborah Paul

Deborah Paul was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, and moved to Southern California as a twenty-year-old American Airlines stewardess. Later, she worked for Flying Tiger Line for twenty-two years in various administrative capacities, as well as driving forklifts and loading airplanes. She eventually began flying tourist and military charters as an international flight attendant. Upon returning to university in the 1990s, Deborah earned her degree in communications. She later taught journalism and became the advisor to the campus newspaper at her alma mater, California State University Dominguez Hills. As a former newspaper reporter for a community section in the Los Angeles Times and subsequent Charitable Events editor for Orange Coast Magazine, Deborah has always sought out stories focusing on human kindness and compassion. Though retired, Deborah regularly contributes feature stories to local newspapers and magazines around the Palos Verdes Peninsula, where she resides with her husband, Jim.