About
It all began with a video camera purchased at an airport on the way to West Africa.
An international career in social performance consulting was born in 2006 on a newly built resettlement site near a gold mine in West Africa. The job was to consult the project affected people about their resettlement experience, and to record findings in a short documentary. Spending months listening to involuntarily displaced people tell their stories and creating the documentary was impactful.
What led to that point is a love of new people, new places and adventure, coupled with Canadian job experience - advocating for vulnerable populations in the social services sector, surveying aboriginal land in the North for the forestry sector, corporate communications for a family business and corporate social responsibility consulting within the financial sector.
That mine site in West Africa became an usher to jobs in the Middle East identifying and mitigating gender impacts of displacement due to conflict, followed by opportunities in Africa, Europe and North America addressing displacement and other social impacts of infrastructure works. The common thread of the work from 2006 until now, grounded by an understanding of the needs, rights and responsibilities of all, is the development, strengthening and/or repairing of relationships between projects and communities in which they operate.
