Work Experience
 

HRM TRAIL AUDITING INTERN, ALLTRAILS APP, HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, APRIL-SEPTEMBER 2017

• completed a self directed project

• audited, hiked, mapped every hiking trail in the Halifax Regional Municipality for the AllTrails app database

• assesed the merits of existing maps, creating maps for those areas that had no existing data or an outdated or inaccurate map

• self initiated via a proposal to AllTrails to provide data in exchange for a global and accessible platform and internship supervision

• November 2019: partially revisited in collaboration with the organization Trips by Transit, to add information on accessibility via specific local bus routes to each trail page
   

RENTAL HOST & OUTDOOR EDUCATOR, CAMP FIRCOM, GAMBIER ISLAND, BC — APRIL 2018-OCTOBER 2018
WINTER HOST, NOVEMBER 2018-MARCH 2019

• responsible for the facilitation of guest experiences at camp

• supervisor and point person for both guests and staff in other departments

• lead guide for guest hiking, kayaking, tandem canoeing, voyageur canoeing, and paddle boarding excursions 

• waterfront supervisor for rental groups

• training of other staff in paddling techniques and rescue, proper equipment management, local interpretation knowledge

• decision making on route and weather/environmental factors

• in house outdoor school instructor (children aged 8-15)

• trail guide and assistant wilderness skills teacher on a three day backpacking trip with 12 grade ten girls for their Outdoor Education curricula
   

LEAD GUIDE, GROS MORNE ADVENTURES, BONNE BAY, NEWFOUNDLAND- MAY-SEPTEMBER 2019, JUNE-AUGUST 2020

• lead guide for kayaking and paddle boarding tours in Gros Morne National Park

• facilitate interpretive tours in the bay

• decision making for route based on environmental and weather factors

• waterfront management and rentalmanagement

• daily operations at waterfront location and Kayak Cafe
   

EXCEL PROGRAM GROUP LEADER, HALIFAX REGIONAL EDUCATION CENTRE (working at Hammonds Plains Consolidated Elementary), NOVEMBER 2019-JANUARY 2020

• planning, execution, and coordination of recreation focused activities for elementary aged school children

• primary to grade five

• facilitate recreation based games and activities that allowed for the development of physical literacy, teamwork, and the development of problem solving skills, strategy, and creativity

• incorporated winter programming into my work as a “club” activity to include more winter based outdoor recreation and introduce place based outdoor learning and exploration
   

FOUNDER & CREATOR, WINTER WONDERS PROGRAM, JANUARY 2020

• Rising Youth Service Canada $750 Grant for execution and programming costs of the Winter Wonders Program

• winter snowshoe education program I founded and designed for implementation in the EXCEL program at Hammonds Plains Elementary

• 18 pairs of children and youth snowshoes

• one hour sessions focusing on snowshoe skills, building physical literacy through winter sports and exercise, and mindful group reflection in a nature setting

• children with ADHD particularly

• all snowshoes were donated to Halifax Recreation to put towards their community rentals stock made available for local schools and families
   

WINTER WILDERNESS COURSE LOGISTICS AND INSTRUCTION, OUTWARD BOUND CANADA ATLANTIC BRANCH, FEBRUARY- APRIL 2020

• direct, hands-on course support for winter wilderness programming

• wilderness skills instruction

• coordinated and organized food and gear drops, instructor support, student support both in and out of the field, planned and organized food for on course, scouted routes, and provided on call support for instructors

• physical and emotional support for students learning skills and resiliency in a dynamic and harsh winter environment

• hard skills such as hatchet and axe use, kindling chopping, and fire keeping, as well as soft skills such as stress and anxiety management in the outdoors, on trip emotional support, leave no trace principles, problem solving, and task management

• expedition planning for Outward Bound as part of an initiative to collect data for proposals for future tripping beyond the 2020 season

• sea kayaking expedition proposal for a 14 day outdoor education trip for high school aged students in the Bay of Exploits (place based research, map analysis, route planning, and inventory of local emergency resources, knowledge, history, and ecological conditions)

• contract ended early due to COVID-19 pandemic + company shut-down 
   

OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE WILDERNESS INSTRUCTOR/PRIMARY TRIP LEAD TEAM 3, PINE RIVER INSTITUTE, SEPTEMBER 2020-MARCH 2022

• clinical parent, working with youth struggling with mature development in response to a variety of behavioural, social, and traumatic experiences, most often in relation to addiction and mental health struggles

• hold strict limits and boundaries, hold healthy relationships, communication, social dynamics

• support the youth as they work through a mandatory wilderness stay as part of their therapeutic programming

• safety, trip-prep, on-trip logistics and management, first aid, and emotional/therapeutic support for the youth in my care while on trip

• year round (season of canoe tripping in Algonquin park, a fall hiking season on Crown land, a winter season involving pulks, snowshoes, and tarp tents, and a spring hiking season)

• teach self and gear care, wilderness basics such as fire making, knots and shelters, wilderness cooking, tripping in a variety of seasonal conditions and forms and their associated skills, trip leadership, camp craft

• support and instruct through therapeutic programming such a journaling on trust in relationships, writing intentional letters to begin family therapy with parents/guardians, community focused working and living, and the writing of a life story

PROGRAM & TEAM MANAGER, GROS MORNE ADVENTURES, MAY 2022- OCTOBER 2022

• shop and guide team management 

• lead guiding for kayak tours, zodiac tours and hiking tours 

• staff training and instruction in interpretation, paddling, guiding

• youth outreach 
  *created & executed a youth learn to sea kayak Paddle Canada course, free paddle-board & empowerment session series for local girls & weekly kayaking skills clinic program

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YOUTH EARLY INTERVENTION & OUTREACH WORKER/MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS INTERVENER, NOVEMBER 2022-PRESENT 

• Youth early intervention services 

• Mental health and wellness support

• Program facilitation (substance use, emotional regulation, outdoor education etc.) 

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YOUTH EDUCATOR-NEWFOUNDLAND, AVALANCHE CANADA, MARCH 2023-PRESENT

• Youth awareness education for avalanche and winter outdoor safety

• Youth education in schools program 

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Education

Charles P. Allen High School

• ‣  French Immersion Program & Bilingual International Baccalaureate Program with an emphasis in Fine Arts and Literature
   

University of Kings College

• Foundation Year Programme, Bachelor of Arts- Double Major in Social Anthropology and Environment, Sustainability, and Society

• Dalhousie University Student Union Office of Sustainability $500 Green Grant recipient for organizing and managing the 2017 Dalhousie University Green Mental Health Week

• “How to Talk About Climate Change” Workshop Co-facilitator for the 2017 Our Poles Our Planet Conference
   

Haida Gwaii Higher Education Institute

• Semester in Natural Resource Management through University of British Columbia Forestry

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Georgian College  (current)

• Certificate in Therapeutic Recreation 

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