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Halifax Regional Municipality, Ns, Ca

Working with community leaders, city staff, and elected officials to advocate for complete communities, protected green space, and a more sustainable and strategically planned Halifax Regional Municipality. Coordinating Our HRM Alliance coalition and the Ecology Action Centre's Urban Development Advocacy Team volunteer group.

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Supported academic research in collaboration with Michigan-based not-for-profit "Doing Development Differently in Detroit (D4)" to develop a Resource Manual on the topic of Detroit’s Community Benefits Ordinance, a planning tool for improved social equity and mitigating negative impacts of development projects in urban areas.

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

TA for Master of Planning year 2 Studio course, which covered introductions to Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, and SketchUP

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Supported the planning and landscape architecture team on various client-led projects

Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Canada

Coordinated the Accessible Lunenburg County project where five municipalities collaborated to develop a regional Accessibility Plan. Completed virtual community engagement, researched community trends and best practices in accessibility, liaised with the Accessibility Advisory Committee, and made recommendations for actions and commitments to reduce accessibility barriers.

Peterborough, Ontario

The NeighbourPLAN project seeks to engage residents in three neighbourhoods in Peterborough, Ontario in the process of reimagining and shaping public space including streets, sidewalks, and parks. This project uses the participatory planning approach and creative mechanisms to engage residents who have traditionally been excluded from formal planning processes. The project works closely with community, municipal, and institutional partners to help create Visions for the neighbourhoods.

Peterborough, Ontario

Working for the Species at Risk recovery section of the Species Conservation Policy Branch to help write policy for the recovery of at risk, threatened, and endangered species in Ontario including fish, reptiles, lichen, mammals and more.

Peterborough, Ontario

Working for the Outcomes and Evaluations section of the Strategic and Indigenous Policy Branch to evaluate natural resource management policy against whether it is still effective, relevant, and efficient. Employing SMART indicators and various data collection tools to work on policy in fisheries, forests, wetlands, natural heritage and more.

Peterborough, Ontario

With the Outcomes and Evaluations section of the Strategic and Indigenous Policy Branch

Peterborough, Ontario

With the Outcomes and Evaluations section of the Strategic and Indigenous Policy Branch

Peterborough, Ontario

A working group at Trent University focused on student engagement in campus sustainability. Organizing two major projects: the inaugural Campus Sustainability Conference and Green Your Campus Competition. By establishing partnerships between administration, student groups, and the student union, we secured over $12,000 in funding in three months.

Master Of Planning

"Planning means the scientific, aesthetic, and orderly disposition of land, resources, facilities and services with a view to securing.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Environmental Studies, Honours

The key themes of the Environmental and Resource Studies/Science Degrees at Trent University, offered by the Trent School.