At SickKids Foundation, the largest charitable funder of child health research in Canada, I support marketing, donor experience, and fundraising teams. I'm also a Board member at Community Foundations of Canada, a network of more than 200 foundations driving local solutions for national change. My interest in visual storytelling has evolved from reporting at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival and TIFF to serving the Board of Directors at EIFF and juries at the Digital Publishing Awards and Edmonton's inaugural FascinAsian Film Festival.
Strategic Communicator
My work across the philanthropic, tech, post-secondary, and media sectors has appeared in transformational gift proposals, C-suite speeches and letters, annual endowment and impact reports, strategic plans, newspaper analyses, magazine features, book chapters, branded content channels, broadcast shows, televised and online videos, a mini-doc, radio programs, live talkshows, university/college classrooms where I taught journalism and social entrepreneurship, a festival in Central Park where I oversaw editorial coverage, and an award-winning podcast where I was showrunner.
Player-Coach
I have helped manage global newsrooms from New York City, Abu Dhabi, and Silicon Valley. During the Arab Spring and 2016 U.S. presidential campaign/election, I reported and edited from the field while supporting junior correspondents and senior colleagues. In Toronto for Shopify, I led teams of content marketers, video producers, and designers who provided education to e-commerce entrepreneurs. Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, I moved to SickKids Foundation to advance paediatric research and health.
Social Advocate
Through occupational twists and turns, I've remained a storyteller at heart with curiosity as my compass. I’ve advocated for social change in Entrepreneur, Inc., Yahoo, and HuffPost, among other publications. At The Wall Street Journal, I reported for eight months on overlooked sites that once produced nuclear weapons but could still pose contamination risks. Our team’s interactive database, multimedia stories, and front-page series “Waste Lands” became a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize.
