Oversee communications for micro-mobility startup. Helping to build a brand toolkit and establish a uniform corporate strategy. Create marketing language, promotional videos and social media content and write correspondence with advisors and stakeholders of successful Kickstarter (2019).

Authored grant proposals for arts sector funding and private foundation funding for youth urban planning education, a documentary as well as a stewardship programme with Waterfront Toronto.

Designed capsule collection of children's clothing for the burgeoning expat market. This initial success led to building a supply chain, fabrication process and marketing and sales channels. The business ultimately became a vehicle for networking around social issues and raising money for non-profit initiatives. Sales revenue supported foreign domestic workers and brought attention to the status of their living conditions.

Communications consultant for a water management and climate change expert with Oxford University. Edited and reviewed documentation for a water resource management programme for the UAE. Gained insight into political challenges of resource management and barriers to environmental progress.

Worked with premier organic produce retailer to explore development of a proprietary organic farm. Consulted experts at the American University (Sharjah) and farmers in Abu Dhabi to develop a business plan. A growing market was weighed against harsh agricultural conditions and the relative affordability of importing.

Assigned and edited news stories to service APTN’s global roster of clients. Provided daily editorial content to news audiences around the world by working with foreign correspondents and producers.

Moved to the CBC London Bureau in 2001 to produce arts, documentaries, radio and overseas news assignments. Produced arts segments for CBC programmes with BBC talent Tim Marlow (highlights included feature interviews with Sting, Boy George and the cast of the flagship Harry Potter film). As an arts producer my pieces spanned the visual arts, opera and ballet as well as popular music and theatre.

Started as an editorial assistant and news writer and worked my way up to associate producer, producer and segment producer on various tv news and current affairs programmes. Gained ground-up experience in news production from fact-checking to editorial decision-making to live interviewing, camera work and post-production. Worked as a producer on The National Magazine, CBC Newsworld, CBLT, Politics, The Millennium Project and On The Arts with Laurie Brown.