Promoted from Social Finance Associate at Raven Indigenous Impact Foundation (RIIF) where the concept of the Raven Indigenous Outcomes Fund was initially concecievd and built.

MakeWay is a national charity and public foundation with a goal to enable nature and communities to thrive together. They achieve this by building partnerships, providing solutions, grants, and services for the charitable sector. The MakeWay Shared Platform is home to over 60 grassroots projects working on community-led solutions that further the MakeWay mission.

Researching the social finance landscape across Canada with a focus on Ontario. Mandated by the Government of Canada's Investment Readiness Initiative with the aim of providing a scenario analysis to guide the recommendations from the National Impact Investment Practitioners Table (NIIPt) to support the deployment of the Social Finance Fund.

Feeding Canadian Kids is a registered Canadian charity (Toronto, ON) focused on reducing child food insecurity across Ontario. As Director of Operations at Feeding Canadian Kids (Toronto, ON), I established a tact for leading in a fast-paced start-up environment to iterate and improve upon our program workflow processes. Within this role I learned to harness ambiguity, take charge and communicate objectives clearly. My role was truly as a relationship builder, ensuring all project deliverables and timelines were met effectively. I focused on anticipating the needs of our beneficiaries and nurturing positive, mutually beneficial partnerships with all our community stakeholders, inclusive of the Boys and Girls Club of Canada and Uber Eats, to ensure our after school meal delivery program remained successful each day. As Director of Operations, it was essential that I work with staff, service partners, beneficiaries and volunteers, to commission, implement and assess strategies to lead our organization as well as clarify our strategic goals and outcomes framework. As COVID-19 completely altered our operational model at Feeding Canadian Kids, I resolved to design and deploy our organizational emergency response program, ‘Feeding Canadian Kids at Home’. During this pandemic, this program has served 6,400 meals to families in need. This pivot required new degrees of energy in the solicitation of new community partners to secure monetary, food, physical space, and volunteer labour donations. After proudly securing these essential partners, I was able to ensure the weekly preparation and delivery of nutritious meals for 400 hungry kids in the Greater Toronto Area. This program still runs successfully today.

The Canadian Alternative Investment Foundation (CAIF), was a registered charity (Toronto, ON) established with the express purpose of providing low cost, flexible financing to registered Canadian charities. This position allowed me to be part of an innovative, social finance intermediary with great institutional knowledge and deep connection to loan funds across the country. Most importantly, this experience has informed my unique insight into the challenges that both charities and marginalized communities face in sourcing supportive financing and capacity building mechanisms in the Canadian context.My key responsibilities included: leading the ideation, design and sharing of all organizational branding and related marketing collateral, managing our borrower loan portfolio's and tracking due diligence and reporting requirements, managing both internal and external communications, improving and digitizing our borrower application process, creating investment readiness & educational material (Webinar and presentation), facilitating information sessions, governance support as secretary to the board and lead planner for all AGM activities.