I have 15 years of experience as an environmental and socio-economic practitioner in various sectors including mining, pipelines, oil and gas, and flood management. I hold a Master of Natural Resources Management from the University of Manitoba and a Bachelor of Arts in Geography and Environmental Studies from McMaster University. I am a certified Environmental Professional and a member of the International Association for Impact Assessment. 

I led the development of innovative methods and approaches to socio-economic management plans and monitoring, including socio-economic effects monitoring for the Trans Mountain Expansion Project. Recently, I managed an Indigenous-led approach to the Newmont Eleonore social, cultural, and Indigenous rights assessment which resulted in updated baseline data and a social management plan. 

I worked as an environmental and socio-economic planning lead on numerous federally regulated applications as well as on the team responsible for the socio-economic assessment of the Trans Mountain Expansion Project. I have worked with Apitipi Anicinapek Nation (formerly Wahgoshig First Nation) on a Community Impact Assessment for the Energy East Project and supported the community’s Indigenous-led impact assessment of the Gazoduq Pipeline Project pursuant to the federal Impact Assessment Act. I led and prepared socio-economic assessments addressing a comprehensive set of socio-economic components, including land and resource use, community health, social and cultural well-being, community infrastructure and services, population and employment and economy.

My expertise includes project scoping, conducting technical discussions and consultations, identifying project interactions, mitigating impacts, and working with the public, Indigenous groups, and government regulators.

I live in Spencerville, Ontario and respectfully acknowledge that I currently reside at an intersection of the traditional territories of the Algonquin, Anishinabek, Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, and Mohawk, and lands used by Métis people.