Ted Killin Email & Phone Number

Working with ambitious entrepreneurs & DMZ leadership team on funding proposals, business plans, and marketing strategies.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Helping young writers to reach their full potential by enhancing their skills and self-confidence.
• Developing a pilot writing program—called “I’ve Arrived”—to support recently arrived refugees (incubated as a start-up at the Social Ventures Zone).

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

- Writing content on PUR's innovative nature-based solutions, including regenerative agriculture, agroforestry, and marine conservation. - Composing success stories about our impact with smallholder farmers worldwide.

• Working as a writing and communications consultant for start-up companies, universities, small businesses, and non-profit organizations.
• Recent work: Project manager for a merger between two non-profits & ghostwriting book chapters for university professors.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Supporting newcomers to Canada by creating formal and informal curriculum to improve reading, writing, and speaking skills.
• Helping newcomers write optimal resumes, applications, and cover letters for various professional opportunities.

• Wrote book chapters, marketing materials, researcher profiles, proposals, and reports at the Office of the Vice-President, Research & Innovation (OVPRI).
• Wrote and edited grants for several agencies, including Canada Research Chair (CRC), Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Mitacs, and the Tri-Council Agencies (CIHR, NSERC, and SSHRC).

Clients served: RBC (field manager), Best Buy (field manager), Canada Bread (field manager), Telus (field manager), Visa Infinite, Lowe’s, Topps, Gillette, Sun Rype, and Johnsonville Brats.

• Sought out cuisine in Toronto while writing columns in the Urban Culture section.
• Copy-edited all contributions to the magazine (20+ articles per issue).

Master Of Arts - Ma, Immigration & Settlement Studies

Honours Ba, Philosophy

Honours Ba, Professional Writing