Career
She also served as news director for the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network from 2002 to 2005. Deverell moved to Canada in 1967, and began her television career in 1972 as the producer of a children"s television program In 1974, she joined Canadian Broadcasting Company Television as a journalist, including a stint with the program Take 30.
In 1983, she left to become a journalism professor at the University of Regina, and in 1988 she left there to become one of the founders of Vision television In addition to working as an executive with Vision television, she also hosted numerous interstitial segments between programs, and was noted for often wearing a flower in her hair when hosting these segments.
Deverell has been named to the Maclean"s Honour Roll of Outstanding Canadians, and to the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.