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Offering over 20 years of communications, content development, and non-profit management experience, I capture and deliver the content branding strategies of cutting edge companies from around the globe. I draw on my extensive academic research and business background to partner with brands, small businesses and entrepreneurs to develop click-worthy news articles, blog posts, product descriptions, social media blurbs, video scripts, and more.
Whether I’m working with non-profits and architects or I’m helping disruptors explain blockchain technology to non-specialists, I act as the interface between complex ideas and everyday audiences.
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Institutional facility design benefits from the input of the many stakeholders who will use a building and its environs. Whether a school, a healthcare facility, a lab, or a carceral institution, staff, visitors, patients, students, and other users can give valuable insights to designers.
Part of a series of articles I developed featuring inspiring young entrepreneurs from across Canada as they faced the impacts of COVID-19.
For William Jarvis, starting his small business Honest Camper was the result of a passion he discovered when he took his son on a road trip in a retro camping van a few years ago. That experience sparked a journey that led him from office worker to successful small business owner.
Entrepreneurs understand that running a business carries risks, so planning for risk is an essential skill for any new or established company. However, international trade companies have a unique set of potential financial hazards that that need to be managed in order to ensure steady cash flow and positive trade outcomes.
Most of us know intuitively that our surroundings can affect our sense of well-being. If we're feeling stressed or anxious, for instance, a walk in the park or near a lake or even just sitting in a garden can make us instantly feel better.
Correctional facility design is undergoing a transformation as both correctional experts and designers recognize that spatial design, colour, good acoustics, natural light and views can have a healing effect for prisoners. Up to 50% of prisoners may enter the carceral system suffering with mental or psychological challenges; it's now accepted that design can play a positive therapeutic role when implemented effectively.
In July, The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) - a non-partisan US-based policy think tank published a report on the important role that blockchain technology could play over the next decade as global jurisdictions work to adopt more agile policies for renewable energy.
Translation / Web Content Samples/Reports
An article I translated from French. Link to the original French on the website.
A summary report I wrote for the Complete Streets Forum 2015, for which I was also the event producer.
Sample from REED Patrons & Performances website. I conducted onsite visits and archival research for private houses and venues in Kent, England. The REED Patrons and Performances website is designed to include a wide range of data about professional performers on tour in the provinces – their patrons, the performance venues they used and the routes they took across the kingdom.