Ember-Vine Newey

Content Strategist | Editor | GEO, AEO & SEO Content Editing | Brand Storytelling

Canada

Hello! I’m Ember. I am an intuitive and creative editor, writer, and strategist who helps organizations turn complex ideas, rough drafts, and even AI-generated content into clear, credible stories that sound like your brand and help achieve your goals.

With more than 15 years of experience across marketing, communications, SEO, brand storytelling, and strategy, I understand deeply that content should do more than just exist. Even grammatically correct content can be boring, stiff, repetitive, or unclear. I bring a strategic perspective to content, including editorial planning and editing, helping organizations connect individual pieces of content to a larger brand message, audience need, and business goal.

My work can begin at any stage of the content process. I develop messaging and editorial direction, shape content plans, strengthen early concepts, and edit everything from website copy and thought leadership to blogs, case studies, campaign content, and AI-assisted drafts.

I’m particularly interested in the evolving role of editors in an AI-enabled content environment. AI can accelerate production, but it cannot replace human nuance, thinking, and editorial judgement.

Whether I’m refining existing material or helping build something new, I focus on making content:

- Clear, purposeful, and easy to understand
- Consistent with your organization’s voice and positioning
- Useful and credible to the intended audience
- Structured for both human readers and search visibility (both SEO and AEO/GEO)
- More thoughtful and distinctive than the average AI-generated draft

Over the years, I’ve partnered with organizations of all sizes, from early-stage startups to global companies, across health and wellness, technology, pet care, education and more. Whether refining brand voice, structuring website content, or defining a long-term editorial roadmap, I focus on creating clarity, consistency, and momentum.

I enjoy working with organizations that genuinely care about people and the planet. I value clarity, curiosity, inclusion, and meaningful communication. And I am especially passionate about supporting women-led, neurodiverse, and LGBTQIA+ businesses.

Outside of work, I train in aerial hoop and dance, where problem-solving, patience, and perspective are part of the process. I believe the best strategic insights often come from pushing limits, embracing curiosity, and occasionally looking at things upside down.

Please feel free to explore some examples of my written work below. For case studies related to content strategy and editorial successes, please email me.

If you’re looking for thoughtful and strategic editorial guidance or want to discuss how content can better support your goals, I’d love to connect.

Portfolio
Nancy Gilette Consulting
Nancy Gilette Consulting

Lead writer for Nancy Gilette's new website project. I also set up the website for her in Squarespace using her selected template.

Gogh Pay
Gogh Pay Landing Pages

Copywriter for two uniquely targeted landing pages. Worked directly with an agency team and client to support the development of copy and landing page vision.

British Columbia Law Institute
New Website 2023

Worked with the client to create refreshed brand voice, tone, and positioning. Copy-edited all website content and defined new website navigation & structure.

Oliver Soutions
Oliver - New Website 2020

Copy-editor for Oliver Solutions new website (2020). Worked alongside lead writer and designers to proofread and copy-edit all site content.

Nch’ḵay̓ Development Corporation
2022 Annual Report

Copywriter for Nch’ḵay̓ Development Corporation annual report. Interviewed key stakeholders, revised client content and created original content for the report.

Satya Organic Eczema Relief
6 Ways Satya Helps Your Skin Get More From The Great Outdoors!

The feeling of warm sun kissing bare skin; cold air on your cheeks in the middle of winter (or that warm tingle when you come back indoors after being outside); the rush of air as you coast down a hill on your bike, strong mountain winds whipping against your hot skin as you reach that plateau on your long hike.

Satya Organic Eczema Relief
IWD 2021: Change Starts With Choice - What Will You Choose?

This #InternationalWomensDay, what will you choose? Change starts with choice. At Satya, this is where it all began, with a choice to do what was right. Before founding Satya, Patrice had a successful career as a radio and television host, news anchor and journalist.

Thesimpledepartment
10 Tips to Ride Out a Recession as a Small Business Owner

It's no secret that recessions can hit small businesses hard, but it's not all doom and gloom. Check out these 10 tips from our marketing team on how small business owners can ride out the coming recession - and maybe even thrive!

07/01/2011
Tick Tock

IF YOU'RE BROKEN, YOU NEED REPAIR. Tick Tock is a short steampunk film written by Ember-Vine Sequoia (credited as Kimberley Newey). Winner of the 2012 Rose City Steampunk Film Festival Approbationary Zoetrope (“Zoey”) for Excellence in Storytelling.