Speech and debate has had a huge impact on my life, and unfortunately, the number of school teams on Vancouver Island has plummeted in recent years. I worked to revive school programs on the Island. This included volunteering as the coach of the Alberni District Secondary School, and running English and French speech, debate, and model UN workshops of varying lengths in middle and high school across the island. 

The Sea Ranger Service is the world’s first maritime ranger service. As a social enterprise it builds specially-designed sailing work ships and trains unemployed youths to become Sea Rangers. After extensive maritime training, coordinated by navy veterans, Sea Rangers are deployed to assist nations in managing Marine Protect Areas, marine research and to conserve historic ship wrecks. I supported the Sea Ranger Service as their researcher since its foundation in 2016 until 2023.

Worked as part of a team of consultants with a Vancouver Island-based consultancy dedicated to improving safety, wellbeing and quality of life in communities. Rethink Urban has a collaborative and interactive approach to connecting people to produce meaningful engagement. Looking at urban places and spaces, Rethink Urban brings the dual perspectives of crime prevention and creative placemaking, and seeks to evolve our cities through the interaction of people, landscape, built form and broad environmental characteristics. 

I was disappointed to learn that BC Ferries charged people an additional $2 to bring their bike on the ferry, despite a lack of adequate bike infrastructure and a need for us to be encouraging cycling. In 2017 I began pushing for this surcharge to be dropped and in the summer of 2020 BC Ferries finally dropped the surcharge. There's still much progress to be made with respect to improving cycling infrastructure leading to terminals and accommodating cyclist on vessels, but this made for a good start.

An annual court case simulation which gives high school students from across BC the opportunity to try a criminal case in a real court room in front of a judge. The event has been run in cooperation with the Victoria Bar Association and the Justice Education Society. I was the lead organizer of this event from 2014 to 2019.

Residents of the Hillside-Quadra, Oaklands, and North Park neighbourhoods in Victoria, BC have been without a community library branch for far too long. They deserve access to the valuable resources that a local library provides including books and other materials, meeting rooms, classes, storytime for kids, and a serving as a community hub. I served as a member of the organizing committee for this campaign. 

The Black Fish is an international community united in its aim to end illegal and destructive fishing practices and safeguard a future for the plentiful species in our oceans. Its approach brings together people and the benefits of modern technology to protect the oceans through civil fisheries monitoring. I served as the lead researcher of this organization from 2013 to 2018.

A marine conservation organization dedicated to mobilizing and empowering local communities, citizen scientists, and campaign groups to end the destruction of habitat and species in the world’s oceans; through science, education, conservation and action! One of the major goals of Fin Fighters is to make the UK fin free by 2023. I helped found and develop the strategy of this organization.

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is a marine conservation organization that uses innovative direct-action tactics to investigate, document, and take action to expose and confront illegal activities on the high seas. 

In 2015 the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society was awarded €8.3 million by the Dutch Post Code Lottery, for the purchase of a custom-build, high-speed,long-range, Antarctic patrol vessel. I was the lead author of this grant.