Bio

Current Activities 

• Director, CMU Centre for Resilience
• Instructor of Social Entrepreneurship, Canadian Mennonite University
• Board Director, Assiniboine Credit Union
• Spokesperson, Centre for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE)
• President, Polycoro Chamber Ensemble
• Strategic Advisor, CAST and Manoverboard Design

Background

• Co-founder, Fools + Horses Coffee
• Co-chair, Transition Winnipeg
• Former Board Director, Green Action Centre / Compost Winnipeg
• Previously a bankruptcy and insolvency estate manager and financial counselor
• Held policy and communications positions with lawmakers and advocacy organizations 
• Worked in the communications industry as an editor and translator in Asia
• Wrote a dissertation on the dynamics of the global financial system and impact on the environment
• Named one of Manitoba's "Future 40 Under 40" (2015)

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Education

• ​MPhil in Economics (Land Economy), Cambridge University 
• BA in Political Studies (Hons), Theatre (Hons), and Rhetoric & Communications, University of Winnipeg

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

Publications