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STAFFBASE

Content lead on the following articles:

• How Communicators Are Changing The Way We Work Forever
• 3 Powerful Ways to Use Storytelling In Your Internal Comms
• Why DEI Communications is Key to Support Mental Health in the Workplace
• 4 Essential Steps To Mastering Change Communication
• How Communicators Can Conquer Impostor Syndrome
• The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Town Halls
• The Internal Communications Data Storytelling Guide
• 3 Ways Emotional Intelligence Strengthens Employee Communications
• 4 Inspiring Internal Comms Takeaways from VOICES NYC
• 3 Reasons You Should Go to VOICES NYC with Me
• The Career Advice Every Internal Communicator Needs to Hear
• 4 Steps to Streamline Your Internal Communications the Marie Kondo Way
• Stop Email Overload: How to Convince Leadership to Send Less Employee Email
• What You Need to Know About the State of Internal Communications Report 2021

Produced and hosted the following LinkedIn Live events:

• Practical Tips for Mental Health – with Shaun Randol and Advita Patel
• DEI & Allyship – with Kim Clark
• Let’s Get Real About Resilience – with Ralf Junge-Pearl
• Wrapping Up The Summer of Self-Care – with Denisa Orlandea and Fiona Hatton

Charitable Impact

Together with a team of content strategists, product managers, engineers, and UX/UI and visual designers, I co-led the content strategy for Charitable Impact’s new brand (launched in October 2019) and award-winning mobile iOS app.

 

 

David Suzuki Foundation

Charged Up campaign – Producer/writer/editor on the following stories:

• The solar generation (November 2018)
• Faces of the new energy economy (October 2018)
• Turning Toronto Zoo poo into power (August 2018)
• This net-zero library in Quebec inspires us all (June 2018)
• Winds of change blow in Lac-Megantic (April 2018)
• Ontario’s first wind community powers almost 7,000 homes (February 2018)
• Building a renewable city, one neighbourhood at a time (February 2018)
• Oil and gas workers go solar with Louis Bull Tribe (February 2018)
• Nelson, B.C. saves money with Canada’s first community solar garden (July 2017)

Media releases:

• Federal methane regulations position Canada as world leader (April 2018)
• B.C. LNG announcement ignores magnitude of fracking pollution (March 2018)
• New David Suzuki Foundation program shows community renewable energy leadership taking root in Canada (February 2018)
• B.C. takes impressive steps in tackling climate crisis, stalls on commitment to make oil and gas pay its fair share of carbon tax (February 2018)
• Study confirms B.C. oil and gas industry, government underreport fugitive methane emissions (January 2018)
• Public Inquiry needed to properly investigate deep social and environmental harms of fracking: coalition (November 2017)
• To reduce emissions, action needed on Canada’s climate plan (October 2017)
• It’s time for government to invest in nature (September 2017)
• Renewable energy shift will continue despite U.S. withdrawal from Paris Agreement (June 2017)
• New science must guide Canada’s regulations to shrink oil and gas industry methane pollution (May 2017)
• Federal carbon price a milestone in Canada’s efforts to fight climate change (May 2017)
• New science reveals climate pollution from B.C.’s oil and gas industry is more than double what government claims (April 2017)
• New science reveals unreported methane pollution from B.C.’s oil and gas industry threatens Canada’s international climate commitments (April 2017)
• David Suzuki Foundation reaction to B.C. Liberal Party climate platform (April 2017)
• David Suzuki Foundation reaction to BC Green Party platform (April 2017)
• Keystone XL approval hinders the growing global renewable energy economy (March 2017)
• Budget 2017 moves towards a clean energy economy, misses nature protection (March 2017)
• B.C. budget falls short on critical transit investment and climate action (February 2017)

Green College, UBC 

• Welcome to Green (September 2016)
• Community Values (September 2016)
• The story of silver girl (November 2015)
• Governing the city in China (November 2015)
• Smells like Green spirit (October 2015)
• Monteverdi in the everyday (October 2015)
• Uncovering untold stories (October 2015)
• Finding Franklin (September 2015)
• Life beyond the lecture hall (September 2015)
• Welcome to Green College (September 2015)

International Reporting Program (housed at UBC Journalism)

• Out of the Shadows (Fall 2015)

Capilano University

• School of Business team wins Western Canada competition (May 19, 2015)
• Bonnie McGrew: The businesswoman behind the music (April 16, 2015)

UBC Fisheries Centre – Nereus Program

• Communicating climate change: William Cheung on the Nereus Program’s innovative approach (May 22, 2015)
• When science meets policy: Daniel Dunn on dynamic ocean management and future sustainability (May 1, 2015)
• Under the seasons of the sea: Rebecca Asch on climate change patterns (May 1, 2015)

The Tyee

• What Makes Us Unequal? Class in the Classroom (September 20, 2014)
• What Makes Us Unequal? Being a Mom (September 6, 2014)
• What Makes Us Unequal? Precarious Jobs (August 30, 2014)
• Central Interior Mine Tailings Breach Contained, Company Says (August 5, 2014)
• Groups ‘Pull Together’ to Cover First Nations’ Enbridge Legal Expenses (July 25, 2014)

UBC School of Journalism projects

• Between a Park and a Hard Place – Video (February 2014)
• Vending for Themselves – Video (January 2014)
• Slowing down Vancouver – Audio slideshow (January 2014)

The Thunderbird 

• Vancouver shelters overwhelmed by increase in homeless seniors (April 8, 2014)
• UBC CCTV debate heats up following sexual assaults (November 22, 2013)
• High noise levels rile students living on UBC campus (October 22, 2013)

Go Overseas

• About Interning in Malaysia (October 2012)

London Community News

(Right now their site isn’t formatting my articles correctly. Will hopefully resolve this soon.)

• Getting a taste for activism, spicy food (September 13, 2012)
• Question: “Miss, are you sure you’re Canadian?” (August 9, 2012)
• Democracy isn’t possible without free expression (June 28, 2012)
• Malaysia media monitoring (May 31, 2012)

Open Wide Magazine (formerly the mitZine)

Print:

• Welcome to the Textbook Forest City (page 12, April 2013)
• Drawing the Line Online (pages 18-19, Feburary 2013)
• Hilary Eng’s Street Style Goes Runway (page 12, December 2012)
• The Bootlegs Speak Easy (page 13, October 2012)
• The Faculty of Information and Moustache Studies (pages 8-9, September 2012)
• Republican Primary Colours: Red, White, and Blue (page 19, February 2012)
• FIMS Makes Films: Danny Dunlop (page 8, December 2011)

Online:

• Gaga: Weight Gain is Art (October 11, 2012)
• Pulp Magazine pops the student bubble (April 11, 2012)
• Arcade Fire and the Grammy culture shock (February 18, 2011)
• Matt & Kim at the Phoenix – “Welcome Home, Strangers” (November 3, 2010)

Pulp Magazine

• Amity Beach: Small Town Paradise (page 13, March 2012)
• Best of 2011 and On Watch for 2012 (pages 26-27, January 2012)
• Summer Faves and Fall Picks (pages 14-15, November 2011)
• Watch the Throne: The Occupy Wall Street Image (page 16, November 2011)

Volta Magazine 

• The Androgynous Performance: From paper dolls to Lena Dunham (pages 63-65, S/S ’13)
• You Are Here: A traveler’s perspective on purpose (pages 34-35, F/W ’12)
• The Eccentric Style Paradox (pages 8-9, S/S ’12)

The Western Gazette 

• Local geek boutique to host London’s first indie toy show (November 14, 2012)
• Young Rival doesn’t revel in new success (October 30, 2012)
• From Western bro to Family Guy (October 12, 2012)
• Falling into local art and community (September 26, 2012)
• Western grad takes on the Big Apple (September 19, 2012)
• Sarah Slean breathes life into land and sea (November 1, 2011)