Bio + Activities

Current Activities 
  • PhD Candidate, McGill University, in the Natural Resource Science department's Leadership for the Ecozoic program
  • Director, CMU Centre for Resilience
  • Lecturer, Canadian Mennonite University
  • Board Director, Assiniboine Credit Union
  • Chief Economist, Centre for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE)
  • Strategic Advisor, CAST Inc. (Creative Applications for Sustainable Technologies) 
  • Strategic Advisor, Manoverboard Design
  • President, Polycoro Chamber Ensemble
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Background
  • Co-founder, Fools + Horses Coffee
  • Co-chair, Transition Winnipeg
  • Former Board Director, Green Action Centre / Compost Winnipeg
  • Financial Counselor and Estate Manager, LC Taylor, Trustee in Bankruptcy
  • Policy and communications positions with lawmakers and advocacy organizations, including the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce 
  • Worked in the communications industry as an editor and translator in Asia
  • Named one of Manitoba's "Future 40 Under 40" (2015)
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Education
  • ​PhD (in progress), McGill University, researching knowledge translation and practice
  • MPhil, Cambridge University, where I studied the dynamics of the global banking system and its impact on the environment
  • BA in Political Studies (Hons), Theatre (Hons; Gold Medal), and Rhetoric & Communications, University of Winnipeg

(If I'm not doing that stuff, I'm probably singing) 

Publications